The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel
10 journalers for this copy...
Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. After two rollicking New York Times-bestselling adventures through the Western literary canon, Britain's Prose Resource Operative was literally and literaturally at her wit's end - not to mention pregnant. So what could be more welcome than a restful stint in the Character Exchange Program down in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots?
But a vacation remains elusive. In no time, Thursday discovers that the Well of Lost Plots is a veritable linguistic free-for-all where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market and lousy books (like the one she has taken up residence in) are scrapped for salvage. To top it off, a murderer is stalking Jurisfiction personnel and nobody is safe, least of all Thursday herself.
Once again, it's up to the ever-resourceful gal detective to track down the killer, save her pulp-novel-slash-temporary abode from being chucked into the Text Sea, and get back to her "real" life with her body (and memory, if it's not too much to ask) intact.
This will be a ring to continue the series with the following participants (once I finish reading it, that is):
tenneh
cyber-librarian
Breeze144 ----> asked to be skipped
Maurean
Dusties
purpleskybaby
TracyR
Cross-patch
molekilby
Off to read Something Rotten and get this series finished!
Released 17 yrs ago (10/25/2006 UTC) at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada
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Sent via airmail to tenneh!
Great book! It's very different and I really like that. Can't wait to get into the next one!
Released 17 yrs ago (12/8/2006 UTC) at Via Mail in -- Mail or by hand-rings, RABCK, meetings, Nebraska USA
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going to cyber-librarian
c. 2003 -- 373 pages -- Hardcover -- #3 in Thursday Next series -- Characters and characteristics in literature -- Women detectives - Great Britain -- Books and reading -- Time travel -- Libraries -- #67 on BookCrossing 2008 Favorites list (series)
Back Cover:
1. The Well of Lost Plots - Title and location of next novel in the Thursday Next series of books. An amazing, brilliantly conceived continuation of the adventures of the fearless, resourceful literary detective and Jurisfiction operative.
2. A Thursday Next Novel - See The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book, the first two adventures in the series, both available in paperback from Penguin.
3. Jasper Fforde - Widely considered a genius and a really nice guy. His name is really spelled this way. He worked in film for many years before his first novel was accepted for publication. He's never looked back.
4. Everybody loves Thursday Next and the series! - "Head-spinning narrative agility. His novel is satire, fantasy, literary criticism, thriller, whodunit, game, puzzle, joke, post-modern prank and tilt-a-whirl." (The WA Post) "An analogue of Harry Potter just for adults ... effortlessly readable and unashamedly escapist ... an immensely enjoyable, almost compulsive experience." (the NY Times Book Review) "If Thursday's adventures prove nothing else, it is that reading can be wonderfully exciting, a lot of fun, and a welcome, maybe even necessary, distraction from our quotidian cares." (Philadelphia Inquirer, Editor's Choice)
5. Visit www.thursdaynext.com - Enter Thursday's world. Play games. Win prizes. Talk to Jasper and other fans like yourself!
6. A special bonus chapter included! - Available only in the American edition - 100% free of charge.
UPDATE (1/19/07): Breeze144 has asked to be skipped, since she has her own copy of this book. So I contacted Maurean for her address.
POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT:
There's many great quotes in this book ... but this particular one made me laugh out loud. I think people will find it amusing who haven't even read the book. (page 354) "To avoid a repeat of this near disaster, the Council of Genres took the only course of action open to them to ensure TGC would be too inefficient and unimaginative to pose a threat. They appointed a committee to run it."
Released 17 yrs ago (1/23/2007 UTC) at book ring in a RABCK, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
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I'm mailing this today to Maurean in FL ... as part of this bookring.
DC #0306-1070-0000-8356-1020
"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head. Vast storycode engines at Text Grand Central throughput the images to the readers as they scan the text in the Outland." (pg. 48).
Thanks so much for sharing this, ajsmom, and as I have received Dusties addy, I will send it along on my next PO run. *mailed 2/15
Going off to purpleskybaby have Pmed for her addy.
Thank you for including me in this ring though and i will get this sent on asap.
I have an address for molekilby so I shall go to the post tomorrow.
This was my favourite so far of the Thursday Next series. I think it suited me and my sense of humour down to the ground. So much so, during the time I was reading the book a colleague in the office described some individuals as a hardy bunch, and I immediately thought of a group of generics from a crowd scene in "Mayor Of Casterbridge". Fforde really does have a fantastic imagination as the plots just seem to hold together so well.
I have Something Rotten sitting on my shelf, I'll read it soon (I'm sure). Thanks ajsmom for sharing this with me and it will be posted right back at you over the weekend.
Released 13 yrs ago (8/7/2010 UTC) at Prince George, British Columbia Canada
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Released 13 yrs ago (2/25/2011 UTC) at UNBC - Graduate lounge in Prince George, British Columbia Canada
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Edit: Looks as though this book has found a home! (March 13, 2011)