What Every Self-Respecting Literary Geek Should Read
A friend just gave me a series of books by Jasper Fforde. A half day later, I'm halfway through the first book, and I'm going to insist that all of my self-respecting literary geek readers read these books. Think Terry Pratchett for English grad students...
The premise is this: Mr. Fforde has a female detective character named Thursday Next who is a member of the literary crimes division of England's Special Operatives. There are all sorts of other wonderfully weird things going on (the Crimean War in 1985, for one), but the heart of the plot is tracing down literary criminals who are doing such things as changing the ends of Jane Austen's novels.
There's also, of course, plenty of murder and mystery and such.
Delightfully funny, easy reading. You can get through a book in several hours, and it is well worth it. Get thee to the bookstore and procrastinate!
The premise is this: Mr. Fforde has a female detective character named Thursday Next who is a member of the literary crimes division of England's Special Operatives. There are all sorts of other wonderfully weird things going on (the Crimean War in 1985, for one), but the heart of the plot is tracing down literary criminals who are doing such things as changing the ends of Jane Austen's novels.
There's also, of course, plenty of murder and mystery and such.
Delightfully funny, easy reading. You can get through a book in several hours, and it is well worth it. Get thee to the bookstore and procrastinate!
posted by Al at 8:52 AM
2 Comments:
Have you gotten to Something Rotten yet? Possibly my favorite, as it features Hamlet moping around Thursday's mom's house.
And the Auto-Shakespeare machines? Want one. And the Rocky-Horror-esque productions of R3? Love.
Haven't gotten to SR yet--I just started Lost in a Good Book this morning. But the Rocky-Horror Richard III is quite possibly the funniest thing ever.
I keep laughing out loud and Ivan keeps looking at me sideways with raised eyebrows. Of course, he's reading The Boomer Bible, so there's plenty of snickering from both ends of the couch.
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