rediscovery: thursday next

So Stacey was talking about re-reading Jasper Fforde the other night. As always, with the power of suggestion, I found myself doing the same thing a few days later, taking down The Eyre Affair from my bookshelf and plunging straight into the first Thursday Next novel.

Days later, and I'm now in the midst (well, near the end, really) of the third Thursday Next book, The Well of Lost Plots.

Man, I can't believe I forgot how good the whole series is. This is the series for lovers of good literature who enjoy tongue-in-cheek references to literary references that run the gamut from the blatant to the truly obscure.

Ever wanted to find out what the original ending of Jane Eyre was? What sounds do dodos make? What does Miss Havisham do in her spare time? Why does American spelling have less "u"s than English spelling? Wanted an answer to the perennial question of why everyone was always waiting for Godot?

All these questions and more, answered in the illustrious world of Thursday Next as she goes from battling the Goliath Corporation to being a Jurisfiction agent in Jasper Fforde's well-and-truly-amazing Thursday Next series, beginning with The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, a short detour into the Nursery Crime Division with Jack Spratt in The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear, before tripping back with Thursday into First Among Sequels.

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