Summary? I liked it but didn't love it, and as someone who dabbles in fantasy rather than wades in deep, I found the weirdness quotient entertaining, rather than, um, too weird.Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously.

Some puns are just too bad to resist.) I found the first half of the book slow-going, although the second half drew me in more. Mind you, indiscriminate vampirism in books is not precisely tidy either: getting the blood out of the pages is a pain in the neck.) (Sorry. (And temporal distortions cause such a terrible mess in a book if they're not used properly. I couldn't work out the significance (if any) of the vampire, for example at least the temporal distortion on the M1, which initially struck me as unnecessarily convoluted, did make sense in the end. I loved the premise, and I thought the characters were great, but the plot seemed a little loose and choppy at times. In an alternate 1985, literature detective Thursday Next is battling an evil master criminal who is threatening great works of literature by kidnapping characters from within them. Fforde's ingenious fantasy-enhanced by a Web site that re-creates the world of the novel-unites intrigue with English literature in a delightfully witty mix. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. Wodehouse will love visiting Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, when time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously: it’s a bibliophile’s dream. Jasper Fforde’s beloved New York Times bestselling novel introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England-from the author of The Constant Rabbitįans of Douglas Adams and P. Meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriend

The eyre affair series