The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde Hodder PB 2001 373pp
“My father had a face that could stop a clock”
A book for a Christmas present, a dying breed it would seem in the brave new world of DVD. I only received 4 books this year and this the only fictional work (although the jury is still out on that book on the Templers).
I finished this on the train home from Sydney last Thursday (ironic really) –but ahhh public transport – the only time I can read without the pressing guilt of chores awaiting.
Our heroine Thursday Next lives in a wonderful parallel universe. Instead of foolish sport arousing the passions of the masses, it is abstract expressionism vs. the pre-Raphaelites, Keats vs. Milton. I want to live here.
Young Thursday works as a LiteraTec, investigating hoaxes and frauds of the literary kind. Acheron Hades is her time-shifting arch-nemesis and Landon Parke-Laine her lost love. She also has a mad professor uncle who invents a machine that allows characters in and out of novels – which is cool as we get to met Edward Rochester. Its written in that fast-paced jokey noir style – so KissKissBangBang and is very clever in parts. I am assured by the giver/s that this is the best of the series – yes, my friends Thursday’s adventures continue. It is very cute.
Enjoy
- posted by FuschiaReads @ 3:18 PM
Comments:
I loved the concept of Richard III being the equivalent of the Rocky Horror friday night cult event.
I also love Pickwick.
The rest of the series doesn't keep up quite the same pace, but are still very good reads.
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