Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde

Lost in a Good Book charts the continuing adventures of Thursday Next, dodo-owning, book-jumping, literary detective and decorated war hero. The book opens a few months after the events of Jasper Fforde's debut The Eyre Affair, and sees our heroine getting increasingly fed up with being at the centre of a media circus. Facing a court case from the mysterious Jurisfiction for altering the ending to Jane Eyre, and dealing with blackmail threats from ...
...up in Fforde's writing - Lost in a Good Book contains a lot of Great Expectations, Sense and Sensibility, Alice in Wonderland and The Trial. While most people have read a bit of Austen, Dickens and Carroll, they're not always the same people who you find reading Kafka... Set in an alternate Britain (a Republic with George Formby as President), Thursday Next's world is one where you can take a 'gravtube' to Tokyo in 40 minutes but there's no jet ...

Olly_Plimsoll 19.10.2007 · Read full review
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...next book ‘The Well of Lost Plots’ which is due out in July this year. The books are published by Hodder & Staughton – Lost In A Good Book is 372 pages long and costs £6.99 in paperback. I loved it and highly recommend it. Lost In A Good Book – you certainly will be! ...

jools30 18.02.2003 · Read full review
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...they always have been. Lost in a Good Book takes this initial, very humourous, premise and stretches it - with Thursday Next now married to Landen Parke-Laine, having defeated her nemesis Acheron Hades in the first book, and trapping Goliath Corporation's Jack Schitt in a copy of The Raven. Things start to go wrong when Mr Schitt-Hawse (yes, it's already a tired pun), Jack Schitt's cousin, eradicates Landen and blackmails Next to return to The ...
...the series, 'The Well of Lost Plots', makes you think that this is a 'novel-lite', written to publisher's order and to a tight deadline. I can't help feeling that with a bit more time spent on it (this sequel followed only a year after the original) this could have been a worthy addition, but instead I find myself feeling that this is a series I would have preferred to see remain at one book. ...

blackpuddinonnabike 08.01.2008 · Read full review
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This exciting return to the world indeed worlds of Fforde is a fantastic return to the world and life of Thursday Next and also of course more of Jurisfiction Yay. So what's happening to Thursday Next next (excuse the pun) well some one is trying to kill her , the evil Goliath corporation teamed up with the chronoguard kill off her husband ,,,back when he was a little boy! An uncanny and improbable amount of possibly fatal accidents keep on occurring ...
...to pink goo doesn't appeal much either We see even further into the workings of jurisfiction which is a real treat and as witty as ever this particular sub world he has created is and insane world of books and words that never ceases to amaze. When Thursday seeks sanction in the world of jurisfiction she is put to work under the tutelage or none other than Great Expectations Mrs. Havasham . This is a cant put down book for sure same as the last ...

Phildude 14.12.2006 · Read full review
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...on words. The characters in Lost in a Good Book are very believable and you'll find yourself lost in this book. It's the type of book that once you pick up, you'll not want to put down until you're finished. When you have finished, you'll want to start all over again. I bought it for all my friends who are book lovers so I can talk to them and laugh with them about it! Highly addictive. ...

victoriablackburn 25.03.2003 · Read full review
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