Something Rotten

Something Rotten

Softcover
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A tight clean softcover, no markings throughout: The fourth installment in Jasper Fforde's New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England The popularity of Jasper Fforde's one-of-a-kind series of genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment builds with each new book. Now in the fourth installment, the resourceful literary detective Thursday Next returns to Swindon from the BookWorld accompanied by her son Friday and none other than the dithering Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap--as outlaw fictioner Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon's patron saint foretells doom, and, if that isn't bad enough, 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 will she ever find reliable child care? Find out in this totally original, action-packed romp, sure to be another escapist thrill for Jasper Fforde's legions of fans. Thursday's zany investigations continue with First Among Sequels. Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including One of Our Thursdays is Missing and Jasper Fforde's latest bestseller, The Woman Who Died A Lot. Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world!

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Format
Softcover
Pages
416
Price
1.90 €

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4.5

Wieder ein großer Lesespaß

Auch dieser Teil der Thursday Next Reihe hat mich wieder richtig mitgerissen. Nach einer generellen Leseflaute hab ich dieses Buch innerhalb von ein paar Tagen durchgelesen. Toll geschrieben, extrem spannend und wow, was für ein Ende :D

5

Ein grandioser vierter Teil! Diese Reihe wird wirklich von Band zu Band besser!!

5

Band 4 und bis jetzt der beste. Spannend und lustig - hab oft gelacht. Ich liebe die skurrile Welt der Thursday Next.

4

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.

5

"Schon beim Tod meines Vaters vor vielen Jahren hatte ich erfahren, dass das Sterben und das Lebensende nicht unbedingt dasselbe waren, und das tröstete mich ganz erheblich."

5

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?

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