The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde is the first book in the Thursday Next series. It looked like a fun spoof on Jane Eyre. My wife is reading this book to me on long drives.
Started: Cannot Remember
Completed: 6/21/2015
Recommendation: Fun Read
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
Full of lots of puns, word play, and horrible jokes at the expense of great literature, this book examples an alternate universe in which the great books play a much bigger part of everyday life then they do here and now. The characters in books can even, sometimes, come into this world and vice versa. The literature police (with Thursday Next leading the Swindon office), however, do their best to straighten up any mishaps (even going so far as to fix Jane Eyre's ending :) ). This time travelling, alternate universe, romp though literature involves all kinds of action, mystery, and even evil for the sake of evil. Join Thursday as she fights to straighten things out in literature (and even addresses the long war in the Crimea).
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