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The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde
This is the fantastic beginning to a delightful and hilarious series by Jasper Fforde. Based in an alternate world with dodos, a society obsessed with books, gravitubes, neanderthals, and more, it is truly a refreshing take on our world. Watch as Thursday Next, the bold and hands-on Literary Detective, attempt to foil Acheron Hades through a series of trials that involve the multinational Goliath Corporation and villains with random, witty, and laugh-out-loud names.
What makes this book so good is the atmosphere, the wit, and the jokes. Overall it is not really realistic or easy to relate to (kind of in a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy kind of way, but it is better because the plot is not as random as H2G2 and has better characters).
These books are great and wonderful page-turners, and since there are eight books in the series so far, it'll be entertaining for a really long time. Unfortunately, I am on the last book after waiting over a year for the ninth one to come out and I am facing a Fford-drought. I am also waiting for Fforde's other series, Shades of Grey (which is extremely witty and I think better dystopia than the YA I've read these days). Please keep writing, Mr. Fforde! And in the meantime read the two series I've mentioned because they are fantastic and extremely smart and funny.
What makes this book so good is the atmosphere, the wit, and the jokes. Overall it is not really realistic or easy to relate to (kind of in a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy kind of way, but it is better because the plot is not as random as H2G2 and has better characters).
These books are great and wonderful page-turners, and since there are eight books in the series so far, it'll be entertaining for a really long time. Unfortunately, I am on the last book after waiting over a year for the ninth one to come out and I am facing a Fford-drought. I am also waiting for Fforde's other series, Shades of Grey (which is extremely witty and I think better dystopia than the YA I've read these days). Please keep writing, Mr. Fforde! And in the meantime read the two series I've mentioned because they are fantastic and extremely smart and funny.