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Something Rotten by Fforde Jasper
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Something Rotten (edition 2005)

by Fforde Jasper

Series: Thursday Next (4)

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Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the Chronoguard. It's not going to be easy. Thursday's former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares, the Goliath Corporation are planning to switch to a new Faith based corporate management system and the Neanderthals feel she might be the Chosen One who will lead them to genetic self-determination. With help from Hamlet, her uncle and time-travelling father, Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? And why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare? 100,000 words, 6 illustrations, adverts and web-based special features section.… (more)
Member:Eat_Read_Knit
Title:Something Rotten
Authors:Fforde Jasper
Info:Hodder (2005), Hardcover
Collections:Your library, Fiction, Paper copy on a shelf
Rating:*****
Tags:Fiction, Fantasy, Crime/Mystery, 2014

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Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde

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    Dr.Science: The English author Tom Holt is relatively unknown in America, but very popular in England. If you enjoy Jasper Fforde or Christopher Moore you will most certainly enjoy Tom Holt's wry sense of English humor and the absurd. He has written a number of excellent books including Expecting Someone Taller, and Flying Dutch, but they may be difficult to find at your library or bookstore.… (more)
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Book 4 of the series. In this one Thursday is back in the real world taking care of her son Friday, who's father was erased from time when he was 2. She's trying to get her husband back, while trying to stop a fictional person from taking over England and the Book World. Oh and Hamlet has taking a vacation from his play and is helping her out. Very funny and punny. I love how completely silly and insane Fforde's world is, but how seriously he takes it. Case in point, the fate of the world might hinge on the outcome of the Croquet Superhoop of 1988 (Yes, full contact croquet is a thing, bigger than Football's World Cup) ( )
  mahsdad | Jun 30, 2023 |
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  freixas | Mar 31, 2023 |
This entire series is fantastic. After a bit of a slump in book 3, Fforde really stepped it up again in this one and was back at the quality level I expected after books 1 and 2. I'm looking forward to books 5 ([b:First Among Sequels|954208|First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)|Jasper Fforde|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1331411425s/954208.jpg|948585]) & 6 ([b:One of Our Thursdays Is Missing|8131227|One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)|Jasper Fforde|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1283363358s/8131227.jpg|12927066]) as well as his other books [b:The Big Over Easy|828409|The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, #1)|Jasper Fforde|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178735308s/828409.jpg|2504943], [b:The Fourth Bear|579553|The Fourth Bear|Jasper Fforde|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175973121s/579553.jpg|948571] and [b:Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron|8725325|Shades of Grey The Road to High Saffron|Jasper Fforde|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1297174578s/8725325.jpg|2118671] all sitting on my shelf waiting to be read. ( )
  boredwillow | Mar 4, 2023 |
4.66⭐ This is sheer entertainment for a bookish fantasy lover. Read my full review here. ( )
  joyblue | Jan 28, 2023 |
The best so far! On to #5. ( )
  DarrinLett | Aug 14, 2022 |
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Fforde continues to pitch high, wide, and fast.
added by Katya0133 | editSchool Library Journal (Nov 1, 2004)
 
Sticking with this oddball novel is rewarding, and readers who share Fforde's love of literature and surreal sense of humor will enjoy this free fall through absurdity.
added by Katya0133 | editPeople, Joe Heim (Aug 23, 2004)
 
With humorous illustrations and curious footnotes sprinkled throughout, Fforde's latest will have hardcore fans roaring.
added by Katya0133 | editPublishers Weekly (Aug 16, 2004)
 
It's easy to be delighted by a writer who loves books so madly -- and who can imagine a Hamlet who roams the real world, declaring: ''That Freud fellow will have a bloody nose if ever I meet him.''
added by Katya0133 | editThe New York Times, Janet Maslin (Aug 5, 2004)
 
[Fforde] is always charming company, and if he sometimes strays too far into fantasy, well, what's so great about reality?
added by Katya0133 | editTime, Lev Grossman (Aug 2, 2004)
 

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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Fforde, Jasperprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Belanger, FrancesDesignersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gray, EmilyNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Roberts, MaggyIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Roberts, StewartIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Thomas, MarkCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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The Minotaur had been causing trouble far in excess of his literary importance—first by escaping from the fantasy-genre prison book Sword of the Zenobians, then by leading us on a merry chase across most of fiction and thwarting all attempts to recapture him.
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Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the Chronoguard. It's not going to be easy. Thursday's former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares, the Goliath Corporation are planning to switch to a new Faith based corporate management system and the Neanderthals feel she might be the Chosen One who will lead them to genetic self-determination. With help from Hamlet, her uncle and time-travelling father, Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? And why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare? 100,000 words, 6 illustrations, adverts and web-based special features section.

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