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Post by bookaddict on Aug 14, 2007 3:52:42 GMT -5
I don't believe we have a thread about the whole series, I think we only have one on "The Eyre Affaire." I'm currently reading "Lost in a Good Book" and I'm really enjoying it.
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Post by sagedautumn on Aug 14, 2007 10:11:54 GMT -5
As a whole what is the series about??? Is it Harry Potter-ish? Or a mystery type??
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Post by Lu on Aug 14, 2007 13:19:02 GMT -5
I've just started reading The Eyre Affair and I like it very much so far. I love the idea of a world where books are so important I was wondering...how many books Thursday Next series have?
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Post by bookaddict on Aug 14, 2007 14:25:51 GMT -5
Thursday Next is the main protagonist in a series of comic fantasy novels by the British author Jasper Fforde. She was first introduced in Fforde's first published novel, The Eyre Affair, released on July 19 2001 by Hodder & Stoughton. As of 2007, the eponymous series comprises five books, in two series.[1] The first series is made up of the novels The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten, while the second series begins with First Among Sequels, released in the UK on July 5 2007. Thursday is the daughter of Wednesday Next and Colonel Next (whose first name is never revealed), a former agent with Special Operations Network department 12 (SO-12), the Chronoguard. She has two brothers, Anton and Joffy. She lives in a parallel universe where England is a republic, there is no United Kingdom, and Wales is the independent "Socialist Republic of Wales". The Crimean War is still being waged in the 1980s, Russia still has a Tsar, and Operation Sealion was carried out successfully. In the world of Thursday Next, literature is a much more popular medium than in our world, and Thursday is a member of SO-27, the Literary Detectives or LiteraTecs. Thursday is in her mid-thirties at the start of the first book, and, by the end of said book, had married Landen Parke-Laine. Thursday juggles her work in Swindon and the world of fiction, battling the machinations of the insidious Goliath Corporation, members of the Hades family and other evils at every turn. Her biographer, "Millon de Floss", reveals more about her life at the beginnings of chapters in "The Eyre Affair", "Lost in a Good Book", "The Well of Lost Plots" and "Something Rotten". Her father Colonel Next is a rogue member of the ChronoGuard (SpecOps 12), a temporal policing agency, and does not officially exist, having been eradicated by his former bosses (using the simple but effective method of a timely knock on the door just before his conception; despite this, his children and grandchild still exist, likely due to Thursday's son Friday Next being the eventual head of the ChronoGuard). He does, however, remain at large throughout the time-space continuum, and still frequently finds time to visit Thursday, usually by stopping time around her so they can talk without her father being arrested by the ChronoGuard. Colonel Next's first name is unknown to everybody but him, a consequence of his eradication. Thursday has two brothers, Anton, who died in the Crimean War, and Joffy, who is a minister for the Global Standard Deity (GSD).
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Post by sagedautumn on Aug 14, 2007 16:21:07 GMT -5
Wow Thanks! Very Confusing but it seems really good!
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Aug 14, 2007 19:10:28 GMT -5
I read The Eyre Affair last month, and absolutely loved it. I just finished Lost in a Good Book. I'm going to start The Well of Lost Plots as soon as I finish reading Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut.
I love this series so far - they are so imaginative and interesting. I never want to put the book down, I just want to read read read.
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Post by bookaddict on Aug 14, 2007 19:40:11 GMT -5
I'm reading "Lost in A Good Book." I really enjoy these books.
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Post by Lu on Aug 15, 2007 7:22:24 GMT -5
Thanks bookaddict! I'm really enjoying The Eyre Affair, I've read about an half of it and I can't wait to see what is going to happen. I'm just so curios. I also have Lost in a Good Book on the very top of my TBR pile.
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Post by jessicalee on Aug 15, 2007 11:09:07 GMT -5
I really want to start this series! I almost bought The Eyre Affair the other day, but i bought Wonder Boys instead. I keep reading about it, and it seems like something I would really enjoy. To those who have read some, a question: I have read and love just about everything by Douglas Adams. This seems to be along the sam lines as his stuff, is it similar, or am I way off? Either way I'm still really interested.
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Aug 15, 2007 19:25:49 GMT -5
It's very different from Douglas Adams, but I can see where you'd make the comparison. I think it's likely that those who like Douglas Adams would be likely to enjoy the Thursday Next books. Both authors are imaginative and funny, and the plots take place in worlds that are very different from our own.
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Post by belle on Aug 16, 2007 14:22:15 GMT -5
I liked The Eyre Affair a lot. But I think I have to wait some time before starting to read the next Thursday Next book. It's all too confusing.
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Aug 16, 2007 17:43:54 GMT -5
I liked The Eyre Affair a lot. But I think I have to wait some time before starting to read the next Thursday Next book. It's all too confusing. Have they translated it into German, or did you read it in English? I can imagine that it would be very confusing to read in English if it wasn't your first language - he makes up a lot of words.
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Post by Bina on Aug 18, 2007 11:32:26 GMT -5
I´ve read the series but not the sequel. I´m waiting for the paperback to come out and I doubt my library will get it anytime soon. I love this series, it´s so funny and I think Fforde´s book world is amazing. I think it´s best to read in English, it´s much more fun.
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Post by belle on Aug 20, 2007 12:09:58 GMT -5
I read it in German. And the paperback (the eyre affair) is available now.
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Post by lindsay on Aug 21, 2007 12:35:36 GMT -5
I really like the Thursday Next novels because they are alot more original than most of the books in the crime genre plus, they are really funny.
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