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| Overall rating | 9.5/10 |
Full review by
bettybarnes
on 22nd Jun 2006
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The Well of Lost Plots is my favourite of Jasper Fforde's incredible Thursday Next series.
How to describe them? I have come to refer to his work as "Fiction Fiction". Know how Science fiction is about things that are not (yet) possible, but we imagine how they could be, and turn it into a story? Well, Fforde does the same - except he draws his inspiration and his sources almost entirely from the fictional realm. His books are peopled with all too familiar characters such as Miss Havisham (the frustrated old dowager from Dickens' Great Expectations) or the Cheshire Cat. A lot of these spill over from the fictional world (where they belong) into the real world - the whole thing being supervised by "Jurisfiction", the policing agency that tries to keep all of this fictional mayhem under control.
Reading Fforde is like nothing you have ever experienced before.
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Review by
Harriet Klausner
on 30th Jan 2004
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The Well of Lost Plots
Jasper Fforde
Viking, Jan 2004, $24.95, 384 pp.
ISBN: 0670032891
Literary detective Thursday Next requests R&R not to recover from assignments like saving the ending of Jane Eyre, but suffers from morning sickness having become pregnant by a dead Crimean War veteran. Thursday applies for a vacation assignment in the Character Exchange Program, which is approved. She travels to THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS, the sub-basements beneath the Great Library. There she will repl ...
Harriet Klausner's full review | 263 words
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