Something Rotten
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“Infused with humor and extraordinary inventiveness . . . [Something Rotten] is worth reading for anyone with an insatiable appetite for cleverness.”—Los Angeles Times
It’s back to reality for Detective Thursday Next—and fiction never looked so good.
Thursday has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap—as outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon’s patron saint foretells doom, and if that isn’t bad enough, back in the Book World The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet.
Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop this hostile takeover? Can she vanquish Kaine and prevent the world from plunging into war? And, most important, will she ever find reliable childcare?
Don’t miss any of Jasper Fforde’s delightfully entertaining Thursday Next novels:
THE EYRE AFFAIR • LOST IN A GOOD BOOK • THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS • SOMETHING ROTTEN • FIRST AMONG SEQUELS • ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING • THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT
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Band 4 bleibt dem gesamten Stil und Witz der Next-Reihe treu.
Die wahnwitzigen Einfälle aus Band 1 bis 3 werden weiterhin wunderbar bedient, und Zusammenhänge geschaffen. Der Anfang war diesmal für mich nicht so fesselnd wie bei den Vorgängern, aber irgendwann lässt sich dieser atemberaubende Nonsens auch nicht mehr steigern. Die Figuren bleiben weiterhin relativ flach, Konflikte zwischenmenschlicher Natur werden eher erwähnt als gelebt und müssen wegen der Action-Rahmenhandlung hinten anstehen. Aber darauf lag noch in keinem Band der Fokus.
I actually don't know how to write down my impressions. It was one of the best books I read this year! To read a series is not always easy but in this case it just felt so naturally. I mean, Thursday Next is one of the most complex characters I have ever met in a fictunal bookworld. I totally love this fact that she lives in a (real) world were books have much more meanings. They even have LitAgs in SpecOps. They even have a Will-Speech-doll all around. Jasper Ffords forth book is so amazing. Imagine you just have to babysit Hamlet - yes, the guy who has long speechs, kills his uncle and loves or loves not Ophelia. So he is in the real world but wait a second, he is Danish and Yorrik Kaine just want to ban everyone who is from Danmark. And of cause Yorrik Kaine is fictinal but a politican in Thursday Next world. I love her son, he is so cute! And I want a Dodo just like Pickwick, not Alan. She needs to get back Landon, her husband and the father of Friday but noone knows that he actually was her husband because he died with two but in Thursdays world he lived until the chronoGarde "destroyed" him. If you just think that this is so confusing you may need to Start The Eyre Affair, because it all started with this. She can read herself into a book - how amazing is this?! So she changed the end of Jane Eyre - which is actually a crime - and became popularity by this. I love it and can't wait to read the upcomings. By the way: why do they have to find a Shakespeare clone?
Description
“Infused with humor and extraordinary inventiveness . . . [Something Rotten] is worth reading for anyone with an insatiable appetite for cleverness.”—Los Angeles Times
It’s back to reality for Detective Thursday Next—and fiction never looked so good.
Thursday has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap—as outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon’s patron saint foretells doom, and if that isn’t bad enough, back in the Book World The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet.
Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop this hostile takeover? Can she vanquish Kaine and prevent the world from plunging into war? And, most important, will she ever find reliable childcare?
Don’t miss any of Jasper Fforde’s delightfully entertaining Thursday Next novels:
THE EYRE AFFAIR • LOST IN A GOOD BOOK • THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS • SOMETHING ROTTEN • FIRST AMONG SEQUELS • ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING • THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT
Book Information
Posts
Band 4 bleibt dem gesamten Stil und Witz der Next-Reihe treu.
Die wahnwitzigen Einfälle aus Band 1 bis 3 werden weiterhin wunderbar bedient, und Zusammenhänge geschaffen. Der Anfang war diesmal für mich nicht so fesselnd wie bei den Vorgängern, aber irgendwann lässt sich dieser atemberaubende Nonsens auch nicht mehr steigern. Die Figuren bleiben weiterhin relativ flach, Konflikte zwischenmenschlicher Natur werden eher erwähnt als gelebt und müssen wegen der Action-Rahmenhandlung hinten anstehen. Aber darauf lag noch in keinem Band der Fokus.
I actually don't know how to write down my impressions. It was one of the best books I read this year! To read a series is not always easy but in this case it just felt so naturally. I mean, Thursday Next is one of the most complex characters I have ever met in a fictunal bookworld. I totally love this fact that she lives in a (real) world were books have much more meanings. They even have LitAgs in SpecOps. They even have a Will-Speech-doll all around. Jasper Ffords forth book is so amazing. Imagine you just have to babysit Hamlet - yes, the guy who has long speechs, kills his uncle and loves or loves not Ophelia. So he is in the real world but wait a second, he is Danish and Yorrik Kaine just want to ban everyone who is from Danmark. And of cause Yorrik Kaine is fictinal but a politican in Thursday Next world. I love her son, he is so cute! And I want a Dodo just like Pickwick, not Alan. She needs to get back Landon, her husband and the father of Friday but noone knows that he actually was her husband because he died with two but in Thursdays world he lived until the chronoGarde "destroyed" him. If you just think that this is so confusing you may need to Start The Eyre Affair, because it all started with this. She can read herself into a book - how amazing is this?! So she changed the end of Jane Eyre - which is actually a crime - and became popularity by this. I love it and can't wait to read the upcomings. By the way: why do they have to find a Shakespeare clone?