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Lost in a Good Book

By Jasper Fforde

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| Paperback | 9780340733578

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The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with Jasper Fforde's magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinationContinue

The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with Jasper Fforde's magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction—the police force inside books. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens's Great Expectations, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes. And she gains just enough skill to get herself in a real mess entering the pages of Poe's “The Raven.” What she really wants is to get Landen back. But this latest mission is not without further complications. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter's The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth.

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  • Lost In a Good Book By Jasper Fforde

    Fforde's genre-jumping sequelIn the alternate universe of Welsh author Jasper Fforde (1985 England), cloning pets is commonplace, time is flexible, literature is sacred, the Crimean War lasted nearly 150 years and a multinational conglomerate called ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • The Best Reviews: Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book

    "For readers wanting something different" Thursday Next has become a fifteen minute legend for stopping the multinational Goliath Corporation from extending the Crimean War in order to sell weapons (see The Eyre Affair). However, fame proves nasty fo ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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    Wow, there's a lot in this book: Time-travelling, book-jumping, same old Thursday Next and new characters... Somehow it gives me the sort of "I wish I were there" feeling. But that's probably the whole point in Fiction literature, isn't it?

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    tam said on Feb 19, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • Meta-fiction, science-fiction, science-meta-fiction, utopias... This extraordinary book (as its author is, in many senses) plays with all the well-known motives of a lot of genres. Yet, it provides us with an insightful view on the world of fiction and the act of reading itself, both as a highly int ... (continue)

    Meta-fiction, science-fiction, science-meta-fiction, utopias... This extraordinary book (as its author is, in many senses) plays with all the well-known motives of a lot of genres. Yet, it provides us with an insightful view on the world of fiction and the act of reading itself, both as a highly intellectual activity and a primary need. Great (as the whole Thursday Next series is).

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    Anne Shirley said on Nov 15, 2009 | Add your feedback

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