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Thursday hides inside a bad book, lives on a houseboat and becomes friends with generics, who gradually develop personalities as the story progresses. Strange but fun. Lots of playing with text; some I get, but not all. Footnotes in book contain conversations. The back of the book has ads for visiting inside novels and credits. (

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raizel | Nov 6, 2009 |

mulliner | Oct 17, 2009 |

My favorite in the series so far. (

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bribre01 | Sep 19, 2009 |

The Thursday Next novels all take elastic stretches of the imagination. Maybe it's just my mood that determines whether I enjoy one or not. This is one that I just couldn't begin to wrap my head around. (

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whimsicalkitten | Aug 5, 2009 |

Fforde is a master. His books are amusing and the plots are interesting. His play on existing books, plots and characters make you laugh out loud. Even though this is the third book in the series, it never gets dull. (

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cal8769 | Jul 23, 2009 |

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Series (with order)

Thursday Next (3)

Canonical Title

The Well of Lost Plots

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The Well of Lost Plots

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Awards and honors

Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (2004)

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For Mari
who makes the torches burn brighter

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Making one's home in an unpublished novel wasn't without its compensations.

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...First there was OralTrad, upgraded ten thousand years later by the rhyming (for easier recall) OralTradPlus. For thousands of years this was the only Story Operating System and it is still in use today. The system branched in two about twenty thousand years ago ; on one side with CaveDaubPro )forerunner of PaintplusV2.3, GrecianUrnV1.2 SculptMarble V1.4 and the latest all encompassing SuperArtisticExpression-5). The other strand, the Picto-Phonetic Storytelling Systems, started with ClayTablet V2.1 and went through several competing systems (WaxTablet, Papyrus, VelliumPlus before merging into the award winning SCROLL, which was upgraded eight times to V3.3 before being swept aside by the all-new and clearly superior BOOK V1. Stable, easy to store and transport, compact and with a workable index, BOOK led the way for nearly eighteen hundred years...

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Canonical title	The Well of Lost Plots
Original publication date	2003
Series	Thursday Next (3)
People/Characters	Thursday Next, Granny Next, Bellman, Randolph, Lola, Aornis Hades (show all 14)
Important places	Swindon, England, UK, The Well of Lost Plots
Awards and honors	Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction (2004)
Dedication	For Mari who makes the torches burn brighter
First words	Making one's home in an unpublished novel wasn't without its compensations.
Quotations	...First there was OralTrad, upgraded ten thousand years later by the rhyming (for easier recall) OralTradPlus. For thousands of years this was the only Story Operating System and it is still in use today. The system branched... (show all)
Last words	(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Landen would have been proud of me.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0143034359, Paperback)

Jasper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment. After two rollicking New York Times bestselling adventures through Western literature, resourceful literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books—like the one she has taken up residence in—are scrapped for salvage. To make matters worse, a murderer is stalking the personnel of Jurisfiction and it’s up to Thursday to save the day. A brilliant feat of literary showmanship filled with wit, fantasy, and effervescent originality, this Ffordian tour de force is the most exciting Thursday Next adventure yet.

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