The Eyre Affair
11 journalers for this copy...
This is the british publication. I read this book 2 years ago in Australia and could not put it down. It was hard to pick a category, because it is also a mystery. People time-travel, the doo-doo is still around and a common household pet, and you literially JUMP into a good book! Lots of fun. I am so excited that his other books are available in India now!
Released to fellow bookcrosser
Journal Entry 3 by LyzzyBee from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, October 21, 2004
Received in the post today from bekainindia - thankyou!
I have managed to acquire 2 copies of this one now - so once I've read this one I will release it to go on to greater travels
Thank you bekainindia!
I have managed to acquire 2 copies of this one now - so once I've read this one I will release it to go on to greater travels
Thank you bekainindia!
Journal Entry 4 by LyzzyBee at == somewhere in Holborn == in Holborn, Greater London United Kingdom on Monday, November 8, 2004
Released on Tuesday, November 09, 2004 at about 1:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at At the Meet-up in London Cittie of York pub, England United Kingdom.
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Bringing this to the November meet-up. I managed to acquire 2 copies - this has travelled far already so deserves to be the one that travels further!
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Bringing this to the November meet-up. I managed to acquire 2 copies - this has travelled far already so deserves to be the one that travels further!
Journal Entry 5 by ArcelysSnape from -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Wednesday, November 10, 2004
This book has been staring at me at every book crossing and has a cute picture of a Dodo on the front riding a scooter. I love Dodos! Several people recommended this book to me as welll..so off I go!
Journal Entry 6 by ArcelysSnape from -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Friday, December 10, 2004
I LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT!!!! This book was so much fun to read. Not since picking up a JK Rowling book have I felt so involved in a story. The adventures of Thursday Next in SpecOps as she defeats the undefeatable Acheron Hades..not only that, she saves Jane Eyre AND gets her man. A real British heroine...thank gawd the Crimean war finally ended.
Journal Entry 7 by kuju from -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Picked up at the London Meetup tonight. Looking forward to reading it!
Journal Entry 8 by kuju from -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Monday, August 1, 2005
I finally managed to find time to read this gem and I absolutely loved it! I don't know why I waited so long! The concept was well executed and I thoroughly enjoyed it all the way through. I'm looking forward to readin more in this series. I picked up "Something Rotten" from Borders on the weekend for only 1.50! But it will have to wait until I've read the ones in between!
Now, if I could only remember who I promised this book to next?
Update (9/8/05):
Ok, so I remembered mentioning it to Fire-Dragon! I'm also going to turn this book into a bookray. Here is the list of participants so far:
Fire-Dragon (UK)
Hawkette (UK)
Nell-Lu (UK)
Clarrie-Rose(UK)
Flanners(UK)
Caligula03(USA)
...
...
You all know what to do :)
Now, if I could only remember who I promised this book to next?
Update (9/8/05):
Ok, so I remembered mentioning it to Fire-Dragon! I'm also going to turn this book into a bookray. Here is the list of participants so far:
Fire-Dragon (UK)
Hawkette (UK)
Nell-Lu (UK)
Clarrie-Rose(UK)
Flanners(UK)
Caligula03(USA)
...
...
You all know what to do :)
Kuju has passed this on to me as I expressed interest when she picked up the book at a meetup in London last year. I have tried reading The Well of Lost Plots and it was good but I really felt I would get more out of it if I went and read the series from the beginning. The book was registered in India so it's travelled a long way already, which is cool.
Journal Entry 10 by Fire-Dragon from Newtown, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, September 1, 2005
Take one hardboiled detective, one alternative society with a wacky literary bent, one rollicking adventure yarn and Jane Eyre. Mix altogether, bake for an hour and you get Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair. Good fun.
I'll probably pass this on to Hawkette in person when I get back down to London.
I'll probably pass this on to Hawkette in person when I get back down to London.
Journal Entry 11 by Fire-Dragon from Newtown, New South Wales Australia on Monday, November 21, 2005
Ooh, me bad. The BookCrossing gods shalt smite me for my transgression in sitting on a bookring book for several months! Actually, I thought that Hawkette was the only person waiting for it but there is now a whole list of people - d'oh! I kept thinking I'd see Hawkette in person and then forgetting the book when I did but I absolutely promise to send it this week. (Even though I'm seeing her on Saturday I think I should just post it and be done!). I hope everyone has been enjoying the opportunity to catch up on their TBR piles in the mean time.
Journal Entry 12 by Hawkette from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Arrived at my house today!
Journal Entry 13 by Hawkette from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Sunday, December 18, 2005
This was a fun, and funny read. Found myself laughing to myself all together too many times on the train - opps! Hee hee.
I have to admit I have had to ask someone how Jane Eyre actually ends - I don't think I have read it. But I understood the premise, and got the other references.
Thursday is quite a likeable character. I think I'll have to ook out for more in the series.
Will be sending off as soon as payday comes around...
I have to admit I have had to ask someone how Jane Eyre actually ends - I don't think I have read it. But I understood the premise, and got the other references.
Thursday is quite a likeable character. I think I'll have to ook out for more in the series.
Will be sending off as soon as payday comes around...
This arrived this morning - thanks, Hawkette, and thanks kuju for starting the ring. I've been really looking forward to this one! I'll start it as soon as I finish my current book, which will be in a day or two.
I liked this. Thank goodness Thursday managed to get the ending of Jane Eyre sorted out, it would have been a disaster if Jane had gone to India with her cousin Rivers! The pet dodos sound pretty cute (it never occurred to me that a dodo's call might be "plock-plock"). I also loved Mycroft's inventions, particularly the translating carbon paper.
Thanks, everyone, for getting the book this far. It's now packaged up and addressed to clarrie-rose. I'll take it to the Post Office this afternoon.
Thanks, everyone, for getting the book this far. It's now packaged up and addressed to clarrie-rose. I'll take it to the Post Office this afternoon.
Journal Entry 16 by BC-08080413432 from -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 8, 2006
I received this today and am looking forward to getting started on it. Thanks.
Journal Entry 17 by BC-08080413432 from -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Saturday, February 18, 2006
I enjoyed reading this. I took a particular geeky pleasure in the literary jokes and I liked the idea of such a lighthearted fun book that is obviously written by someone who knows their classics. Will probably try to get hold of the others in the series now.
Journal Entry 18 by BC-08080413432 from -- Somewhere in London 🤷♀️ , Greater London United Kingdom on Thursday, March 9, 2006
I sent this off yesterday. It's going to the USA by surface mail.
Book is here. Thanks.
The book is okay but not as great as I was hoping. Thursday Next reminds me (and annoys me in the same way) as Holly Short from the Artemis Fowl books. Fforde spends 2/3 of the book setting up his convoluted version of 1985 that the plot really doesn't get started until page 200 or so. Many of the SpecOps divisions make no sense, especially the one dealing with vampires and werewolves; that's just one detail too many. I can see how if time travel is possible, traveling into books might also be possible. I wish more of that connection had been explored in this book; perhaps more is done in that line in the later books. The "literary" jokes got tiresome after awhile and I just wanted to book to focus a little more on the plot.
Offering on the bookrelay: http://bookrelay.com/relay.php?id=98
Reserved for butterfly-noir.
Reserved for butterfly-noir.
Released 17 yrs ago (7/16/2006 UTC) at
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Mailing to butterfly-noir.
Mailing to butterfly-noir.
Journal Entry 23 by butterfly-noir from Lisboa - City, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Monday, September 11, 2006
its here. i cant wait to start reading this book.
thank u caligula03
thank u caligula03
Journal Entry 24 by butterfly-noir from Lisboa - City, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Tuesday, September 9, 2008
I was expecting much mor from this book, it was a fun quick read but nothing more, I created no empathy it any of the characters or the story. Jasper fforde created un interesting world, but there's to many information to cope whit, to many references, its hard to catch up everything. still I've already have 2 other books from the serie and plan to read them eventually at some point (this one didnt grab me), I hope that maybe some more dweeling on thursday Next world will sort out some of the foregner feeling i've got from the book.
The best part about this book was that it made me read jane eyre. Now I see I really didnt have to, since bronte's work is just a minor detail on the overcroweded plot.
will be going to bigcurlz soon
The best part about this book was that it made me read jane eyre. Now I see I really didnt have to, since bronte's work is just a minor detail on the overcroweded plot.
will be going to bigcurlz soon
Journal Entry 25 by bigcurlyloz from Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire United Kingdom on Thursday, September 18, 2008
Received today - thank you!! I've actually already read it, so will release it for someone else to enjoy!
Journal Entry 26 by bigcurlyloz from Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire United Kingdom on Thursday, December 11, 2008
Passed on to a friend - enjoy!!
