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Summary: A Weekend Book
Review: The Eyre Affair is definetly a fun book to read. It is slow moving in the beginning but by page 100 I was hooked into it. This fantasy takes place in England in the 1980s. It's not the England we know but one where the Crimean War is still raging and literary and art police are present. The Eyre Affair is both a fantasy and a science fiction novel. Time travel is present and there is a machine which enables people to enter into novels. This book is funny at times . It's a good rainy day book.
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Summary: The Eyre Affair is a hoot!
Review: I was completely surprised by this mystery novel. The author has a wonderful sense of humor with the names he uses for characters and the play on today's society. The inane pet dodos ( various cloned versions) and the Head of the large corporate monster Jack Schitt. Well, this is just a taste of a delightfully fun series. Lots of imagination and a good read.
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Summary: downright hilarious
Review: Quite the funny-book. The plot is absolutely absurd, which is oen of the reasons it's so incredible! The irony and the dialogue in the so-British humor is absolutely intoxicating and hilarious. Knowledge and/or reading of Jane Eyre is somewhat recommended, but not required to enjoy this book.
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Summary: Fabulous fun!
Review: What a fun novel!! An alternate world where people can travel into books and change the most loved classics--including Jane Eyre. Thursday Next is a fun character, sort of a British version Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum--ballsy, brash, and brave. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves literature and suspensful mysteries.
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Summary: worth a read
Review: This was defintely and interesting read.. although the ending felt like a cliffhager, till i started on Ffordes next book. If you wanna get this book, you should read Jane Eyre first, maybe twice if you can take it.(i'm lucky since i studied it in high school)anyway, this makes for a fun read if you're into the literary world and all for poking a bit of fun into it.
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Summary: suspenseful literary fun. :)
Review: this book is almost too clever for its own good. almost. thursday next, the heroine with a past, engages in a genre-jumping, hair raising, time traveling adventure that will warm the cockles of bookworms everywhere. thursday pursues the second most wanted man in england, the perfectly named archeron hades, as he sets out to destroy national literary treasures by altering original manuscripts. fforde pulls from so many different genres to assemble "the eyre affair" that the assigned categories of "science fiction" and "fantasy" are certainly underinclusive. however, he does create a very complete and convincing world for the story to take place within - the hallmark of any decent fantasy book. i wish that the characters had been developed more, but i suspect that that is what the rest of the series is for...book lovers will delight in the hundreds of literary allusions (both subtle and blatant), as well as the epigraphs. i especially liked the teasing snippets from thursday's autobiography. fforde's digs at government secrecy and the blurred line between corporate power and government power are both humorous and incisive. good stuff all around.
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Summary: Original, witty and compelling
Review: This book is a delightful read. I was both intrigued and doubtful about the premise. When I try to tell others about it they say, "Hmmmm." But Fforde pulled it off. He takes a wild premise and runs with it in such a way that you are [taken] in, giggling and shaking your head all the way. It's not often that books have me howling out loud. The last one that did that to me was "Me Talk Pretty One day" by David Sedaris. Much to the dismay of those who have to live with me, Fforde managed to have me cackling like a madwoman. I finished the book last night, laughing too loudly into the wee hours. I would definitely recommend this title. If you doubts, set them aside and give this book a chance.
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Summary: A Real Page Turner!
Review: I couldn't put this book down once I started it! Fforde's combination of detective story, science fiction and literary homage/allusion is irresistable to a fan of all three. My husband also loved the book, but he often asked me to explain the literary references, so people with a good grasp on canonical British literature might get more out of the book than those who don't remember their college English courses. I particularly suggest a quick review of Jane Eyre and Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade before starting Fforde's novel. It will be MUCH funnier and more interesting that way!
Both this novel and its sequel are great books for weekends or vacations. They are the perfect choice for people who read a lot of canonical literature but also enjoy lighter and more humorous novels. In other words, English teachers are guaranteed to love you if you give them this book!
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Summary: Enchanting, fun, and it will send you back to Jane Eyre.
Review: Thursday Next is a wonderful heroine, and her strange family adds to the entertainment. Even if you don't ordinarily enjoy alternative histories, you may like this one. A little science fiction, a little mystery, and lots of humor. By the time I'd finished reading it, I simply had to dig out Jane Eyre for another reading. I'm back for a second round, having just finished the second book in the series--which was great fun as well.
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Summary: A small gem of a book
Review: After twenty years in the film industry, Jasper Fforde started a career as a novelist and thank goodness. He really wanted a change of direction. The Eyre Affair is close to unflimable - or maybe not - and marks a fine addition of a new comic and fantasy writer. Living in an alternate world where literature and art leads to riots and the Crimean war is still going after 125 years, Wales is a people's republic and characters can be kidnapped from novels, out literary detective Thursday Next, must do a battle with evil and dangerous powers. When you start, you feel that it cannot possibly keep going and the invention on every page must flag at some point, but it doesn't. Not only a good read - but a great book.
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