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Fforde, Jasper Big Over Easy, The
Hodder 2005 0-340-83568-0 / 9780340835685 Paperback Very Good+
The word of mouth on Jasper Fforde has long been enthusiastic, among those in the know. But now that his readership has expanded immeasurably, the exp ectations for such books as The Big Over Easy are considerable. And whether or not those expectations will be met by this new book depends on the read iness of readers to strike out in new directions--just as the author has do ne. Fforde's speciality has long been the outrageous teasing of narrative f orms, and there's a measure of that here, although more disciplined than in earlier books. Rather in the fashion in which Stephen Sondheim exploded the world of fairytale in Into the Woods, Fforde here brings all the apparatus of the tough crime thriller to bear on the nursery rhyme. Minor baronet Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III has been found dead--and in pieces--beneath a wall in a less salubrious area of town. The perpetrator would appear to be his ex-wife, but she has shot herself. Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his colleague Mary Mary are assigned to the case, and soon find themselves knee-deep in money-laundering, bullion smuggling and major problems with beanstalks.
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Fforde, Jasper Something Rotten
Penguin July 26, 2005 0-14-303541-X / 9780143035411 Paperback Very Good+
Welsh writer Fforde's fourth entry in the zany, hypercreative Thursday Next detective series revisits the "Literary Detective" as she retreats to her hometown of Swindon, England, retiring from the tedious job (as Head of Jur isfiction) she held in Fforde's previous novel, The Well of Lost Plots. Joi ned by her two-year-old son, Friday, pet dodos Pickwick and Alan, and Hamle t, the Prince of Denmark, Thursday realizes that there's someone missing: h er husband, Landen, previously "eradicated" by the Goliath Corporation, a r uthless bio-tech conglomerate corporation. She wants Landen back. Aided by her father, she is reinstated into her old employ, the Special Operations N etwork, and begins investigating the machinations of power-hungry Fictionee r Yorrick Kaine and the mysterious disappearance of England's president. Th e fate of the world rests on the outcome of a major croquet tournament, wit h Thursday pinch-hitting on a lethal playing field as Landen is finally ret urned to reality (only to fade out again). More than a little wacky, the no vel is packed with screwball details as characters get "written" in and out of the story, hybridized creatures stalk malls and Shakespeare clones star t popping up everywhere. With humorous illustrations and curious footnotes sprinkled throughout, Fforde's latest will have hardcore fans roaring.
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Fforde, Jasper Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Mystery
Viking Adult August 5, 2004 0-670-03359-6 / 9780670033591 Hardcover Near Fine/Near Fine
Welsh writer Fforde's fourth entry in the zany, hypercreative Thursday Next detective series revisits the "Literary Detective" as she retreats to her hometown of Swindon, England, retiring from the tedious job (as Head of Jur isfiction) she held in Fforde's previous novel, The Well of Lost Plots. Joi ned by her two-year-old son, Friday, pet dodos Pickwick and Alan, and Hamle t, the Prince of Denmark, Thursday realizes that there's someone missing: h er husband, Landen, previously "eradicated" by the Goliath Corporation, a r uthless bio-tech conglomerate corporation. She wants Landen back. Aided by her father, she is reinstated into her old employ, the Special Operations N etwork, and begins investigating the machinations of power-hungry Fictionee r Yorrick Kaine and the mysterious disappearance of England's president. Th e fate of the world rests on the outcome of a major croquet tournament, wit h Thursday pinch-hitting on a lethal playing field as Landen is finally ret urned to reality (only to fade out again).
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Fforde, Jasper The Well of Lost Plots
Penguin 2004 0-14-303435-9 / 9780143034353 Paperback Good+
In this delicious sequel to The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book, Fforde 's redoubtable (and now throwing-up-pregnant) heroine Thursday Next once ag ain does battle with philistine bibliophobes, taking a furlough from her du ties as a SpecOps Literary Detective to vacation in the Well of Lost Plots, the 26 noisome sub-basements of the Great Library. Pursued by her memory-m odifying nemesis Aornis Hades, Thursday joins Jurisfiction's Character Exch ange Program, filling in for "Mary," sidekick to the world-weary detective hero of Caversham Heights, a hilariously awful police procedural. At the im minent launch of UltraWord, the vaunted "Last Word" in Story Operating Syst ems, Thursday's friend and mentor Miss Havisham is gruesomely killed, and T hursday gamely sets out to restore order to her underground world, where te chnophiles ruthlessly recycle unpublished books and sell plot devices and s tock characters on the black market. Meanwhile, Aornis is doing her fiendis h worst to make Thursday forget Landen, her missing husband and father of h er child. If this all sounds a bit confusing, it isuntil the reader gets th e hang of Fforde's intricate mix of parody, social satire and sheer gut-bus ting fantasy.
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Fforde, Jasper Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel (Thursday Next No vels
Penguin July 29, 2008 0-14-311356-9 / 9780143113560 Paperback Very Good+
Full of bizarre subplots, many of which don't go anywhere, bestseller Fford e's fifth novel to feature intrepid literary detective Thursday Next (after 2004's Something Rotten) blends elements of mystery, campy science fiction and screwball fantasy à la Terry Pratchett's Discworld. With the Stupidity Surplus reaching dangerously high levels all over England, Acme Carpets em ployee and undercover SpecOps investigator Next has her hands full trying t o persuade her 16-year-old slacker son, Friday, to join the ChronoGuard, wh ich deals with temporal stability; if Friday continues to sleep away his fu ture, the end is near--for everyone. To complicate matters, a malicious app rentice begins making classic works of literature into reality book shows ( Pride and Prejudice becomes The Bennets), a ruthless corporation tries to t urn the Bookworld into a tourist trap, and the Cheese Enforcement Agency tr ies to bust Next for smuggling killer curd. The fate of the world may lie i n a Longfellow poem. Fans of satiric literary humor are in for a treat.
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