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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
As I read each installment of the Thursday Next, it's amazing to me that that maintain their charm and complexity from the earlier books. If you are a fan of time travel paradoxes and encountering embodied versions of the self, then this is the book for you.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
These books. They're too much of a clusterfuck. And there are fewer literary references that I understand in every successive novel, and that makes me sad.
Not my favorite Thursday Next novel, but very entertaining.
OK, before I get started on this review I have to say that I'm a big fan of the Thursday Next books ("especially the ones with the violence and the sex....").
This book meandered around about two dozen plots before it settled in and tried to tie up about half of them in the last 50 pages. Don't get me wrong, this was a very very enjoyable read, but it wasn't as focuses as, say, The Eyre Affair.
If you liked the other books, go get this one and read it; If you didn't don't. If you haven't read any of them, I recommend starting at the beginning and reading The Eyre Affair.
This book meandered around about two dozen plots before it settled in and tried to tie up about half of them in the last 50 pages. Don't get me wrong, this was a very very enjoyable read, but it wasn't as focuses as, say, The Eyre Affair.
If you liked the other books, go get this one and read it; If you didn't don't. If you haven't read any of them, I recommend starting at the beginning and reading The Eyre Affair.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Spec Ops have been disbanded. Thursday Next leaves her husband and three children every day to go and work at Acme Carpets. But what she’s not telling her family, is that the carpet business is just a front, oh and that she may just occasionally be jumping into BookWorld to continue her job with Jurisfiction.
Hilarious and incredibly topical in places. I sincerely wish the Common Sense Party were actually real. Although I’m definitely glad we don’t have to smuggle cheese from Wales. Of course, the literary playfulness within BookWorld is just a joy to read. You can open it up at practically any page and find something to laugh at. Thursday is also faced with her fictional selves, who she has to tutor. If you haven’t read this series, you must! I love how the classics are still being shaped by hiccups, just like the initial adventure in Jane Eyre.
Moving Thursday forward in time means that BookWorld is facing some tough challenges. How to compete with multimedia and shortened attention spans? Many a publisher’s thought these days. The Book Reality Show highlights a very real fear among book lovers; we don’t want gimmicks to get in the way of a good story. In a bid to innovate, it’s easy to forget about the novel and end up somewhere in games.
I do absolutely love Jasper Fforde, so I’m pretty happy to read without a discernable plot, which for a large part of the book, I couldn’t really work out. There are lots of threads and some of them seem to be forgotten about. It’s only when you get nearer the end that the connection becomes apparent.
I’m usually quite happy with my favourite series not being adapted for the screen, but I so want to see an actual army of Danverclones. Be prepared for a cliffhanger ending, but it’s OK, the next book is already out.
Hilarious and incredibly topical in places. I sincerely wish the Common Sense Party were actually real. Although I’m definitely glad we don’t have to smuggle cheese from Wales. Of course, the literary playfulness within BookWorld is just a joy to read. You can open it up at practically any page and find something to laugh at. Thursday is also faced with her fictional selves, who she has to tutor. If you haven’t read this series, you must! I love how the classics are still being shaped by hiccups, just like the initial adventure in Jane Eyre.
Moving Thursday forward in time means that BookWorld is facing some tough challenges. How to compete with multimedia and shortened attention spans? Many a publisher’s thought these days. The Book Reality Show highlights a very real fear among book lovers; we don’t want gimmicks to get in the way of a good story. In a bid to innovate, it’s easy to forget about the novel and end up somewhere in games.
I do absolutely love Jasper Fforde, so I’m pretty happy to read without a discernable plot, which for a large part of the book, I couldn’t really work out. There are lots of threads and some of them seem to be forgotten about. It’s only when you get nearer the end that the connection becomes apparent.
I’m usually quite happy with my favourite series not being adapted for the screen, but I so want to see an actual army of Danverclones. Be prepared for a cliffhanger ending, but it’s OK, the next book is already out.
I love this series so much, and this weird meta entry was as amazing I could expect it to be. I liked the time travel element being more on display in this one, but the book world is always going to be the best thing to come out of this one. This having multiple Thursdays in it is so good and cleverly done, the way the fictional Thursdays played into the plot especially. It’s such a fun series that doesn’t have a bad entry yet.
Ohh, let's be honest, by the time you're 5 books in, you're more in it for the characters than there for literary genius. I enjoyed seeing Thursday Next grow older and see her family develop. And I admire Fforde's ability to continually draw out drama to bolster the storyline. I'm a bit lost with the whole time travel stuff, and I get the feeling that the author is, as well. But what the hell, I'm in it for the long haul and of course I'll keep reading the next Next!
Enjoyable, but not laugh out loud funny like the first four Thursday Nexts were.