Admittedly, it's not the longest book I've ever read...and I was sick in bed, literally reading all day...a little perspective on the fact that I read it in 2 days. That said, The Eyre Affair was a fast-paced joy-ride of a book that kept me intrigued and awake!
This book is a mystery novel set in an alternate version of 1985 England, as-in: the main character has a pet Dodo bird (version 1.2), there is a "ChronoGuard" which is a Special Ops detective unit dealing with time travel, and it is possible to actually enter a piece of literature and interact with the characters. There is humor throughout the book, as we follow detective Thursday Next (whos boss is Braxton Hicks, haha) in her hunt for the villian Acheron Hades. I've never been what you'd call a "Fan" of Sci-Fi novels--but this wasn't entirely Sci-Fi, and I was completely engrossed in it! Better yet: I could understand the world the author had created, with an entirely different set of laws, physics, realities from the world we know.
This is the first in his "Thursday Next" series of mystery-detective-adventure novels, and I just might read the next one... Alas, so many books, so little time.
I'm starting on his next series, "Nursery Crimes":
-The Big Over Easy (the fate of Humpty Dumpty set in New Orleans),
-The Fourth Bear (the theory that there must've been a fourth 'bear on the knoll' in the Goldilocks story),
-The Last Great Tortoise Race (TBA).
-The Big Over Easy (the fate of Humpty Dumpty set in New Orleans),
-The Fourth Bear (the theory that there must've been a fourth 'bear on the knoll' in the Goldilocks story),
-The Last Great Tortoise Race (TBA).
In the "Nursery Crime" series, Jack Spratt is the detective, and the bad guys are characters like the Gingerbread Man. What I love about Jasper Fforde's writing is that it is highly intelligent, with wicked humor, and not juvenille in the least (despite the characters). Fforde is either the craziest or the most inventive author I've ever read. GREAT STUFF!!
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