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'Don't ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original' - Sunday Express on Lost in a Good Book
Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the Chronoguard.
It's not going to be easy. Thursday's former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares, the Goliath Corporation are planning to switch to a new Faith based corporate management system and the Neanderthals feel she might be the Chosen One who will lead them to genetic self-determination.
With help from Hamlet, her uncle and time-travelling father, Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? And why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare?
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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
'Don't ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original' - Sunday Express on Lost in a Good Book
Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the Chronoguard.
It's not going to be easy. Thursday's former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares, the Goliath Corporation are planning to switch to a new Faith based corporate management system and the Neanderthals feel she might be the Chosen One who will lead them to genetic self-determination.
With help from Hamlet, her uncle and time-travelling father, Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? And why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare?
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?