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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I'm not sure if it's because I had a hectic pre-Christmas week or the book, but it took me a little while to get into this. Set completely in The Well of Lost Plots, Thursday spends the whole time in fiction. (I kinda missed SpecOps). That's not to say that it's not great- Miss Havisham returns and there's some great new characters. I think Thursday Next novels are best devoured in as few greedy settings as possible. Needless to say, I'm planning a quieter week with its sequel. (  ) birdsam0307 | Dec 16, 2009 |  The third Thursday Next novel has plenty of clever ideas... but not much plot or character development. Fforde took a big risk when he decided to afflict his main character with a mindworm that unravels her memory -- she forgets her backstory, and the reader forgets to care.There were some awful typos, like its vs. it's and breath vs. breathe. Bad enough in any published novel, but in one that includes cutesy little sub-plots about a misspelling virus and punctuation theft? Unacceptable! (  ) catalogthis | Nov 24, 2009 | Reviewed by Mrs. Foley From library record - Thursday Next, an English detective who mingles, literally, in literature, escapes to a place far from her job protecting the classics--a never-published pulp fiction novel--to spend the rest of her pregnancy and finds herself battling crime once again, and protecting herself from a murderer. Just another great Fforde book. Thursday Next is now living in literature and is working for Jurisfiction (the force that polices fiction). Fforde is so clever in his writing that I find myself laughing at how he pokes fun at our world today. Definitely worth reading, but you should start at the first book (The Eyre Affair) and read the whole series. ( ) hickmanmc | Nov 17, 2009 | 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. ( ) raizel | Nov 6, 2009 | -  mulliner | Oct 17, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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