The Well of Lost Plots

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• If it's Thursday it must be the valley of death

  The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde 362pp, Hodder, £10.99 It is as hard to come up with a new fictional gimmick (a really "novel" novel) as a new vice. There is only so much the human imagination can do with those seven orifices and eight archety ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• The Well of Lost Plots By Jasper Fforde

  Jasper Fforde takes readers on a witty, wild rideHumpty Dumpty and his nursery rhyme mob are threatening a boycott. The rabbits from Watership Down have reproduced in such numbers that only Lennie from Of Mice and Men cares to visit anymore. Everyone ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  Genius

  Jasper Fforde creates a BookWorld that feels real... Jurisfiction (like Jurisdiction) monitors infractions within books. While employed as an agent, Thursday Next makes the unpublished book that she lives in more interesting, solves some murders, and uncovers a plot to make books boring.

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  Jasper Fforde creates a BookWorld that feels real... Jurisfiction (like Jurisdiction) monitors infractions within books. While employed as an agent, Thursday Next makes the unpublished book that she lives in more interesting, solves some murders, and uncovers a plot to make books boring.

  Miss Havisham, along with characters from Sense & Sensibility, Wuthering Heights, Alice in Wonderland, and a few of Shakespeare's plays all make appearances. My favorite chapters featured a Wuthering Heights counselling session and the BookWorld Awards that had categories such as the Dopiest Shakespearean Lead and Best Dead Person in Fiction Award. I also loved the concept of "generics" going to school in order to gain personalities for roles in new books.

  Jasper Fforde wrote this for every literary nerd out there. Haven't we all wanted to travel into our favorite books? This is the next best thing!

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  [...] After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in ther head, or the colours of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as th ... (continue)

  [...] After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in ther head, or the colours of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more. [...]

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• English Books
• Paperback 368 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0340825936
• ISBN-13: 9780340825938
• Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton
• Pub date: Jan 19, 2004
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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