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May 30, 2006
"Lost in a Good Book" by Jasper Fforde
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde is the second in a series (I’d recommend starting with the first book, The Eyre Affair, ISBN: 0-14-200180-5). It is hard to select a genre for this series; the stories are part science fiction, part action/adventure, part mystery, part remakes of great literature, but very readable and a lot of fun. The main character is Thursday Next, a Literary Detective with the Special Operations Network. Thursday is just as apt to interact with a literary character such as Miss Haversham from Great Expectations, as she is with “real people.” Thursday has a full plate as she tries to deal with the blackmailers who killed her husband and are after her father (he’s a rogue ChronoGuard), searches for a way to bring her husband back, tries to figure out how to save the world from imminent destruction, works to verify the authenticity of a previously unknown play by Shakespeare, and copes with the queasiness of early pregnancy. I have enjoyed this series a great deal and I suspect that people who have read a lot of the “great literature” will get even more out of it since they will understand the references to scenes and characters from books such as The Trial, Great Expectations, Alice in Wonderland, etc., etc.
ISBN: 0-14-200403-0
Pam, Reserves
Posted by jnardine at May 30, 2006 10:02 AM