Paperback, 399 pages
English language
Published Feb. 24, 2004 by Penguin Books.
The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with Jasper Fforde's magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction, the police force inside books. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens's Great Expectations, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes. And she gains just enough skill to get herself in a real mess entering the pages of Poe's "The Raven." What she really wants is to get Landen back. But this latest mission is not without further complications. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter's The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of …
The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with Jasper Fforde's magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction, the police force inside books. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens's Great Expectations, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes. And she gains just enough skill to get herself in a real mess entering the pages of Poe's "The Raven." What she really wants is to get Landen back. But this latest mission is not without further complications. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter's The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, 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.
Burrowing down further into the mythos with this one. :)
Both Thursday Next and Pickwick the dodo are expectant mothers (yes Pickwick isn't a he after all) but they don't have long to enjoy the good news. Thursday returns home to find her husband, Landon, no longer exists. Someone from the ChronoGuard has gone back in time and made sure the two-year old Landon didn't survive the car crash in which he lost his father. He's being held hostage and Thursday must find a way to return to the pages of books in order to get him back.
Lost in a Good Book is the second instalment of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series, following on from The Eyre Affair. Thursday's world is an alternate version of 1980s Swindon (the magic roundabout still exists) where literature has a special ops division to keep it safe and extinct animals have been re-engineered. As part of the Literatech, it's part of Thursday's job …
Both Thursday Next and Pickwick the dodo are expectant mothers (yes Pickwick isn't a he after all) but they don't have long to enjoy the good news. Thursday returns home to find her husband, Landon, no longer exists. Someone from the ChronoGuard has gone back in time and made sure the two-year old Landon didn't survive the car crash in which he lost his father. He's being held hostage and Thursday must find a way to return to the pages of books in order to get him back.
Lost in a Good Book is the second instalment of Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series, following on from The Eyre Affair. Thursday's world is an alternate version of 1980s Swindon (the magic roundabout still exists) where literature has a special ops division to keep it safe and extinct animals have been re-engineered. As part of the Literatech, it's part of Thursday's job to make sure no one meddles with the classics, even if she did make the ending of Jane Eyre better.
The Indepedent may say that these are silly books for smart people but I think they are silly books for bookish people. It certainly helps to know the classics and they're the kind of silly that will bring a smile to the face of any booklover. I'm not sure I'm ever going to see Miss Havisham in the same light again.
Read it out of order so knew where it was going, still good
