Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde

Thursday Next, SpecOps Literary Detective and Jurisfiction Prose Resource Operative, keeps on her toes as she dashes in and out of books, meets crotchety literary figures and keeps the world from turning into pink frosting. Jasper Fforde's second book in the Thursday Next series isn't any easier to follow if you've read the first, but is nonetheless a merry, pun-laden romp. Yes, I used the word "romp"; it was especially meant to describe a book like this and I'm not just being pretentious. Or only a little pretentious. I've meandered into a tangent like this in order to avoid actually describing the plot of this book to you. Let's just say this: it's really fantastic fantasy, and Fforde doesn't feel the need to explain his "science." In his England there are Shakespeare fans so rabid they assume the identity of Anne Hathaway, inventors that make scone dough that never leaves behind any waste, and people keep dodos as pets. Oh, and they've cloned neanderthal man; they drive the trains.
Posted by supersusie at January 24, 2004 11:38 PM