Thursday Next Five

With the Stupidity Surplus reaching dangerously high levels all over England, Acme Carpets employee and undercover SpecOps investigator Next has her hands full trying to persuade her 16-year-old slacker son, Friday, to join the ChronoGuard, which deals with temporal stability; if Friday continues to sleep away his future, the end is near—for everyone. To complicate matters, a malicious apprentice begins making classic works of literature into reality book shows (Pride and Prejudice becomes The Bennets), a ruthless corporation tries to turn the Bookworld into a tourist trap, and the Cheese Enforcement Agency tries to bust Next for smuggling killer curd. The fate of the world may lie in a Longfellow poem.

Traveling as a ring together with parts 1,2,3 & 4

The Eyre Affair - Thursday Next 1

Lost in a Good Book - Thursday Next 2

The Well of Lost Plots - Thursday Next 3

Something Rotten - Thursday Next 4

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Suzanne4Books
ULRK

Part 5 travels Suzanne4Books

Heute angekommen – es war gottseidank schlank genug für den Briefkastenschlitz. Kommt sofort dran!

Nachtrag, 22. 10. 2012: Das war wohl nicht ganz so einfach für Herrn Fforde, Thursday & Co. wieder ins Laufen zu bekommen – da wirkte doch so einiges ziemlich konstruiert. Merkwürdig auch, daß die sonst so plietsche Thursday den Zusammenhang zwischen der Geistererscheinung ihres Onkels Mycroft und der ChronoGuard-Problematik so spät erkennt. Und auch, dass Aornis aus ihrer Gefangenen-Zeitschleife entkommt, sobald Zeitreisen unmöglich werden, scheint gegen Ende der Ereignisse in Buch 5 plötzlich keine große Rolle mehr zu spielen. Außerdem: Wieso finden die Jurisfiction-Kollegen keinen Weg in die Sherlock Holmes-Serie, wenn Onkel Mycroft seinerzeit problemlos darin untertauchen konnte?

Viele Fragezeichen... und ein für Herrn Fforde ungewöhnliches Maß an Unlogik. Das wird mich dennoch nicht davon abhalten, auch die übrigen Bände der Reihe zu lesen, sobald ich ihrer habhaft geworden bin.

Vielen Dank für den Ring! Das Buch reist in Kürze zurück zum Absender.

Update, October 22th 2012: Apparently it was not so easy for Jasper Fforde to get Thursday & Co. back up and running – some of the narrative constructions seemed a bit strained. Moreover I found it a bit strange that smart Thursday pulls together her Uncle Mycroft's apparition and the problems of the ChronoGuard only so very late in the course of events. Plus nobody seems to care much about the fact, that Aornis will be able to leave her prison loop as soon as time travel stops. And, speaking of travelling: Why can't Jurisfiction agents find a way into the Holmes series when Mycroft could seek refuge there without any difficulty reported at his time?

A lot of questions... and an amount of illogicalness I did not expect with Jasper Fforde. This will not stop me though to read the other parts of the series as soon as I can lay my hands on them.

Thanks for the ring! The book will soon travel return to sender.

Macht sich heute wieder auf den Weg nach Hause. Dank für den Ring!

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