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Add your review	Lost in a Good Book Author: Jasper Fforde ISBN-10: 0340733578 ISBN-13: 9780340733578 / Paperback Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks / 2002-07-18 List Price: £6.99 Similar Books More Details from Amazon.co.uk

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Outrageously charming

The closest thing I have read to this before is Alice in Wonderland and its genre. This is better. Caroll was a mathematician jobbing as a writer; Fforde is a writer, whose prose is like cold, clear water on a hot day. Drink it or dive in. In a continuum, where fiction is one end and non-fiction is the other, this is fiction at its most daring and cunning. It is as if the writer is having fun and has asked if you would like to play too. Is Thursday a grown-up Alice? You will not care because this is part 2 to The Eyre Affair, and it is faithful to answering questions posed in part 1 - in such a way that you are benevolently more bewildered than before. Such fun. Next, Next, Mr Fforde!

Decent read but not brilliant.

This book starts promisingly and has many innovative ideas (such as the library and the concept of book jumping without the prose portal. The character of Thursday does develop and becoome more complex as fdoes her involvement in greater things. Unfortunately it suffers from sequel syndrome and fails to live up to the true genius of the forst instalment in this series and , like "The Empire Strikes Back", one gets the feeling its main raison detre is to lead into the third volume of adventures. Fascinated byt the first book this was somethning of a let down.

As good as the first in the series

Very good, easy to read novel. Easily as good as the first in the series (which I definitely recommend to read before this). Only trouble with this novel is you'll finish it very quickly as its hard to put down, so if taking on holiday remember to take an extra book!

Superb fiction from Jasper Fforde

Wow. I do wish I were a bit more widely read as I am sure there are characters and references I did not get, but this ia a great book -- full of humour, great characters and fascinating plotlines. The Courtroom scene is superb and side-splittingly funny and I'd happily be Miss Haversham's apprentice anyday.

This just keeps getting better!

Even better than "The Eyre Affair" (see my review of that for fuller details)!

There's a trial in Kafka's "Trial" (this chapter made my head spin so much I had to read it three times and then accept it would always baffle me; Franz would have been proud), a Miss Havisham so real she hops off the page and beats you with her stick for blaspheming (I don't dare read "Great Expectations" now; I'm actually afraid Dickens's potrait of her won't do justice to Jasper Fforde's...!), a loveable Cheshire Cat-turned librarian, the greatest Shakespeare discovery in the history of history, an all-too-realistic contemporary art exibition, plus more of everything you will have loved from the first book: Thursday's delightful time-travelling dad, her adorable dodo, her complicated love life; not to mention pure evil, alive and not, human and not.

This sent me scouting various Waterstone's for "The Well of Lost Plots" - which leads me to a gripe: why do clever, funny, precious authors like Jasper Fforde get so little shelf-space dedicated to them when, of all the entertaining (but not really of any aesthetic value) chick-lit of Katie Fforde, not a single title is missing? Books like this should be thrown at people's heads just so they come across them, not hidden like something to be ashamed of!

One minor note: do not try to start from here. Jasper Fforde's magical world is by this point far too developed for it to make much sense: this is not a series of stand-alone books, it is a continuous story that needs reading in the order it's been written... unless you want to end up very confused, and unable to understand what all the hype is about. Which would be a shame, because for once it is a highly justified hype.

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