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| Title | : | Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next #2) |
| Author | : | Jasper Fforde |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 399 pages |
| Published | : | February 4th 2004 by Penguin Books (first published March 31st 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fiction. Mystery. Humor. Science Fiction. Writing. Books About Books. Time Travel |
Jasper Fforde
Paperback | Pages: 399 pages Rating: 4.14 | 48001 Users | 2741 Reviews
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The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with the second installment in what is sure to become a classic series of literary fantasy.Jasper Fforde and his ever-resourceful literary detective heroine Thursday Next are back in the second installment of what promises to be one of the most talked-about series of the decade
If Thursday thought she could avoid the spotlight after her heroic escapades in the pages of Jane Eyre, she was sorely mistaken. The unforgettable literary detective whom Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times calls "part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew and part Dirty Harry" had another think coming. The love of her life has been eradicated by Goliath, everyone's favorite corrupt multinational. To rescue him Thursday must retrieve a supposedly vanquished enemy from the pages of "The Raven." But Poe is off-limits to even the most seasoned literary interloper. Enter a professional: the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens's Great Expectations. As her new apprentice, Thursday keeps her motives secret as she learns the ropes of Jurisfiction, where she moonlights as a Prose Resource Operative inside books. As if jumping into the likes of Kafka, Austen, and Beatrix Potter's Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies weren't enough, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth.
The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with Fforde's magnificent new adventure, the second installment in what is sure to become a classic series of literary fantasy.
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| Original Title: | Lost in a Good Book |
| ISBN: | 0142004030 (ISBN13: 9780142004036) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.jasperfforde.com/lostmusing.html |
| Series: | Thursday Next #2 |
| Characters: | Miss Havisham, Thursday Next, The Cheshire Cat (Lewis Carroll), Acheron Hades, Jack Schitt, Landen Parke-Laine, Mr. Schitt-Hawse, Pickwick, Aornis Hades, Granny Next, Akrid Snell, The Bellman, Daphne Farquitt, Cordelia Flakk, Yorrick Kaine, Lavoisier, Thursday's Dad (name unknown), Harris Tweed, Braxton Hicks, Joffy Next, Polly Next, Wednesday Next, Spike Stoker, Mycroft Next |
| Setting: | United Kingdom |
| Literary Awards: | Dilys Award (2004) |
Rating Epithetical Books Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next #2)
Ratings: 4.14 From 48001 Users | 2741 ReviewsDiscuss Epithetical Books Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next #2)
Super fun for book geeks like me. Even if I am unfamiliar with some of the books and characters mentioned here, as in the first Thursday Next book, I had no problem laughing out loud on occassion and following the plot. Having read this after Christopher Moore's "You Suck!" it is interesting to note the different approaches to creating humorous situations. Moore relies rather heavily on teenage angst and sex jokes while Fforde borrows from the English tradition of word play, absurdism (is thisBad boy! she added in a scolding tone. The Tasmanian tiger looked crestfallen, sat on its blanket by the Aga and stared down at its paws. Rescue Thylacine, explained my mother. Used to be a lab animal. He smoked forty a day until his escape. Its costing me a fortune in nicotine patches. Isnt it, DH-82? This is such a clever book and there ere are so many quotable passages, but the problem is that may favourite parts contain spoilers of either this book or of pretty much any classic work of
A helluva lot of fun. I didnt mean to read this book right now. Having been rather lukewarm about the first book in this series, I wasnt sure whether to continue but some have said the series gets better. I thought I'd scan the first few pages and decide what to do.Then, like Thursday Next, I fell into this book. It was clever, delightful; entertaining with lots of plot twists and turns, including an end-of-the-world scenario. Miss Havisham is interesting. Shes assertive, in charge, smart and
I really, really liked this sequel! I liked the first book in this series but I thought this one was incredible. I felt like this one really drove home the bookish element to this series that the first one only touched on. Some of my favorite parts about this book was the book jumping, the conversations in the footnotes, all the bootstrap paradoxes, and this books funny self awareness. In the last book we got a glimpse of Thursdays power to jump into the events of any book, but it wasn't the
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I'm in love with this series although I apear to be reading them out of order. This is the second in the series, and Thursday Next, who works as a Literary Dtective in Special Ops, has just her ground-breaking work in The Eyre Affair (she ended up changing the ending from Jane moving to India to Jane staying in England and marrying Mr. Rochester). Thursday is the talk of the town and Special Ops Public Relations wants her to do everything from television appearances (highly censored) to a
Lost in a Good Book - what a title. Would I have been in such a situation! Sadly, I was not, and I really hated this book to begin with. Half a star rating at best. In fact, the only reason I finished it was so that I could give it a bad review. By the end, I was able to stomach it, which isn't much for praise. I haven't much patience with books that try to be clever, and this book is dripping with unsupportable pretentiousness. For a long time, I thought the main character was a man, for this
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