The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels

[lightreads]

The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
More adventures of Thursday Next, literary detective outside books and, inside them, Jurisfiction agent.



A lot like Terry Pratchett: British, funny, and impossible to adequately describe. I loved The Well of Lost Plots -- Miss Havisham in motor races! Cheshire Cat! Wuthering Heights group therapy! Just awesome and clever and pleasantly meta. I have to admit the fourth and fifth books were less fun for me. I love Fforde's cheerful self-conscious wackiness when Thursday's living inside books, but when she's out in her real world, the meta gets too heavy-handed for me. It's a nice idea – Thursday is still living in a book, after all, the book we're reading, so she has this moment where she can't have sex because she's worried about us watching her. And I'm not saying it doesn't work. It just doesn't always work on me.




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