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The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
This book was originally recommended to me by my English teacher, quite possibly after a conversation about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I thanked him for the book recommendation and went about my day, not giving it a further thought. Then, the next time I saw him, he thrust the book into my hands. And you know me - or you don't, as the case may be for many of you, so I shall elaborate. Once I get my hands on a book, even if it's just something I randomly picked up from somebody's coffee table, I actually have to be physically restrained in order not to begin reading. So read is what I did, and it took less than ten pages for me to realise that this book was pretty much my soulmate - Soulbook? Bookmate? Is that a thing? I digress.
The best way to describe The Eyre Affair is a a sort of literary Hitchhiker's Guide, and by that I don't mean that this book is a work of literary fiction, but rather that its subject matter is, in fact, literature. I honestly don't know how this book should be classified - I suppose it could generically be labelled as science fiction or some kind of fantasy, or possibly alternate history, but that really doesn't cover it. It doesn't have a science-fictiony feel to it, if you know what I mean. The closest I could get would be a scifi/alternate history/humour/metafiction hybrid, and even that isn't doing it justice. The only thing I am quite sure this book is, really, is 100% awesome.
By the way, it is wonderfully enjoyable even for ignorasmuses (ignorasmi?) like me who haven't read Jane Eyre. (I know, I know. It's going to happen someday, I promise.) Just think about this: If this book is worth five stars to someone who hasn't read Jane Eyre, can you imagine how may stars it could be worth to someone who has? That's not a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely interested. Perhaps I'll re-read it after getting round to reading Jane Eyre and find out.
The best way to describe The Eyre Affair is a a sort of literary Hitchhiker's Guide, and by that I don't mean that this book is a work of literary fiction, but rather that its subject matter is, in fact, literature. I honestly don't know how this book should be classified - I suppose it could generically be labelled as science fiction or some kind of fantasy, or possibly alternate history, but that really doesn't cover it. It doesn't have a science-fictiony feel to it, if you know what I mean. The closest I could get would be a scifi/alternate history/humour/metafiction hybrid, and even that isn't doing it justice. The only thing I am quite sure this book is, really, is 100% awesome.
By the way, it is wonderfully enjoyable even for ignorasmuses (ignorasmi?) like me who haven't read Jane Eyre. (I know, I know. It's going to happen someday, I promise.) Just think about this: If this book is worth five stars to someone who hasn't read Jane Eyre, can you imagine how may stars it could be worth to someone who has? That's not a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely interested. Perhaps I'll re-read it after getting round to reading Jane Eyre and find out.