The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
2 journalers for this copy...
"Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally in a Wordsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet, and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature. When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Bronte's novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter a novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide." -- Synopsis from the back of the book
Perhaps because I'm not familiar with most of the literature referenced in this book, I didn't find it as outrageously funny as other people have said it to be. Oh, it was cute in some spots, the character Jack Schitt got a chuckle out of me, and the bookworms causing apostrophe's and ampersands to appear randomly were cute, but on the whole it wasn't as outrageously funny as I expected. Regardless, I've ordered and will read the next book in the series, Lost in a Good Book to see if it gets any better.
Added to the Otherworldly Bookbox, which is headed to perryfran as of 6/1/13.
Selecting from emmejo's Otherworldly bookbox. Thanks!
Journal Entry 5 by perryfran at Little Free Library - St. James Church, Harrison Blvd. in Ogden, Utah USA on Saturday, March 18, 2017
Released 7 yrs ago (3/18/2017 UTC) at Little Free Library - St. James Church, Harrison Blvd. in Ogden, Utah USA
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