OT: Jasper Fforde

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Wed Feb 6 03:13:50 EST 2013


On 02/06/2013 03:46 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Richmond-
>
> Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 12:42:48 PM, you wrote:
>
>> No, I'm not ffamiliar with that man with a ffine sounding name.
>  From Fforde's website, a bit about the Thursday Next series of books,
> which I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone who still remembers what
> reading physical books is all about (and start at the beginning
> because they'll make more sense that way):
>
> 1: The Thursday Next series. Thursday Next is a detective who works
> for Jurisfiction, the policing agency that works inside fiction. The
> books are set in an odd alternative world, and blends SF, Fantasy,
> Literature, Horror, and a bit of romance. This is how I recently
> described the series:
>
> They are a series of books based upon the notion that what we read in
> books is just a small part of a larger BookWorld that exists behind
> the page.
>
> A fantastical place populated by off-duty and sometimes mischievous
> bookpeople from the Classics to Fanfiction, and ruled over by the
> wheezing bureaucracy known as The council of Genres. It is their task
> to maintain the pageant and integrity of the books within their
> charge, and these efforts are sometimes thwarted by the very evildoers
> and bizarre plot devices that give the Bookworld its appeal.
>
> Aided in this endeavour but sometimes disagreeing with them are
> Jurisfiction, the policing agency within Fiction. The adventures
> follow one of their operatives: A woman from the Realworld named
> Thursday Next, whose reality-based credentials bring a dimension of
> independent thought to the proceedings, something that is often absent
> in the mostly predetermined Bookworld.
>
> Confused? Excellent - turn to page one and start reading!
>
> (Seven books so far: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of
> Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels and One of our
> Thursdays is Missing and The Woman Who Died a Lot (2012)
>

Sound more like the real world than perhaps a lot of us are prepared to 
admit :)

I will certainly give the first one a try.

Richmond.




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