Book: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Book in a sentence: The first in the series of adventures of Thursday Next, a LiteraTec with SpecOps. Set in an alternate United Kingdom.
The best thing about this book: My friend Jenel put it best when she said this book could never be made into a movie. It's a book that celebrates it's bookliness by doing things that can't be done in any other media. Jasper Fforde's writing is entertaining, witty, and there are so many inside jokes for English Literature lovers that it will keep you on your toes. The tongue-in-cheek names will make you smirk, and Thursday's adventures will intrigue you so much that you'll run out and grab the next book in the series!
Happy reading!
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I *just* saw this at the library last week and almost checked it out!
You and I must really not have the same taste in books anymore. I hated this book and couldn't finish it. It was annoying and not fun.
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