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Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next)
by Jasper Fforde
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Audio Books (2004-08-02)
ISBN: 1840328487
EAN: 9781840328486
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Audio CD
SKU: CD1153
Condition: Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed, is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in which Thursday trapped him, and it will do almost anything to achieve this - but bribing the ChronoGuard? Is that possible? Having barely caught her breath after The Eyre Affair, Thursday must battle corrupt politicians, try to save the world from extinction, and help the Neanderthals to species self-determination. Mastadon migrations, journeys into Just William, a chance meeting with the Flopsy Bunnies, and violent life-and-death struggles in the summer sales are all part of a greater plan. But whose? and why?
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Customer Reviews
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Not quite as good but still amusing
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-10-24
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is the second book in the Thursday Next series of literary mysteries by Jasper Fforde. If you haven't read the first one, The Eyre Affair, you will find spoilers in this review, so go check that out first - I recommend it!
After vanquishing Acheron Hades and giving Jane Eyre a better ending, Thursday Next is dealing with uncomfortable amounts of fame, but is very happy to be finally married to Landon, the love of her life, and expecting his child. She doesn't anticipate further adventures, but what she wants is very different from what she gets when the Goliath Corporation kidnaps her husband and threatens her into returning to the world of books. Apprenticed to Miss Havisham of Great Expectations, Thursday must re-learn how to jump into dangerous texts in order to rescue her husband and the world.
I have to say, I didn't love this book as much as the first one. It seemed to take forever for the story to get going and Thursday spent far too much time dodging publicity events rather than engaging in more interesting activities. Once it picked up and Thursday began entering books again, I started to enjoy it and predictably wanted more by the end, though I was bit perplexed by Thursday's casual attitude towards Landon.
I love when she gets involved with literature that I've read, which she does here; it's really why I'm reading these books in the first place. Fforde generally does a good job with the characters, making them entertaining but still like their book counterparts. The AU setting and time travelling doesn't interest me all that much. It feels too much like science fiction. So if you enjoy science fiction, you'll probably enjoy the beginning of this book a lot more than I did. I'll be picking up the third in the series though, especially considering I already own Something Rotten, number four.
I'll probably still recommend the series for those who enjoy light mystery with a little book love involved.
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fun for bibliophiles
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-10-11
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is the second installment in the "Thursday Next" saga and builds upon elements from the previous book, The Eyre Affair. If you have not read that, enough of the back-story is alluded to that you could probably make it through this okay, though you will still be missing much of the foundational flavor.
I wasn't quite sure where this book was going until about 3/4 of the way through, but was having too much fun to care. There are a couple of plot threads (and red herrings) that do tie together towards the end; the "over-all plot" more or less sneaks up on you.
If you're an avid reader, especially of "classics" you will get quite a kick out of this, and even just a passing familiarity with the topics touched upon will produce many chuckles. The book has a lot of "high brow English humor" -- sort of Monty Python meets P.G. Wodehouse, so if such things are not your cup of tea, you will be missing a lot of the humor and probably not get into it. Otherwise, definitely give it a go. If you liked The Eyre Affair, you'll like this too.
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Not Free SF Reader
Rating (3)
Date: 2008-04-21
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Eraserhubby.
Or, that is what Goliath corp gets their flunkies to do to Thursday Next, being none too pleased with what they have done to her, to start with.
Married detectives, generally not so interesting, anyway, so might have been a good thing if they could have kept it that way.
Not as good as the first book, as you are used to the mad inventor-book jumping type strangeness that is going to come your way by this point in time.
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Sometimes Nothing is as it Appears, Or is Supposed To
Rating (4)
Date: 2008-03-09
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
One of the few failings of Jasper Fforde is that he has a tendency to be way to cute sometimes (ok, lots of the time). And though most of the time this works, when it doesn't, it's like, uh! you've got to be kidding. There is no reason (is this understated) that everything has to be a pun, metaphor or a take off on some one or something. Eating chocolate is fun, but once in a while, you want a hamburger or a piece of pizza.
In this sequel, Fforde throws out so many ideas left and right and right and left, that they get lost in the pile-up. If he would take a little more time to flesh out the political structure of the era that Thursday lives in and then give a little more explanation as to how SpecOps relates to the government (and the governed), not to mention how the octopus Goliath controls everyone -thing -time, it would make the books more enjoyable. Well at least for me and since I'm writing the review whose opinion could be more important!
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Loved getting Lost
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-07-23
The second book of the Thursday Next Series is a delight! Jasper Fforde writes for people who are creative, people who are well read, and people who like a good mystery. The more read you are, the more inside jokes you will understand.
This books carries on from the end of the first in the series, nicely builds more depth inthe characters by going a bit farther into the history of some, while still leading you through a mystery, laughing along the way.
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