Jasper Fforde: The Well Of Lost Plots (2003)
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Jasper Fforde was born in 1961 in London, before he began his literary career, he worked in the film industry. He became famous for his novel series about Thursday Next, whose first book The Eyre Affair , after 76 rejections, was published in 2001 - with great success. Next e Thursday Next books: Lost in a Good Book (2002), The Well of Lost Plots (2003), Something Rotten (2004), First Among Sequels (2007);
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Thursday Next is in trouble. Deep trouble ...
Pursued by a sinister multinational corparation and an evil genius with a penchant for clothes shopping and memory modification, literary detective Thursday Next is on the run.
Not an ideal situation considering she's pregnant by her husband who is presently suffering a non-existence problem.
Taking refuge in the Well of Lost Plots – the place where all fiction is created – Thursday ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heigths. But in Thursday's world, trouble is only ever a page away, and when a succession of Jurisfiction agents are killed, only one woman is up to the job of unmasking the villain responsible.
Will Thursday ever be able to enjoy the quiet life again, or is she about to lose the plot completely?
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In this third novel in the series about the liter Artur agent Thursday Next, the reality (or the reality of the protagonist) is completely left outside, all the action takes place in books or in the "Fountain of the manuscripts" (Well of Lost Plots) from. This fact is the great strength of the book and also his weakness. The literary References and "inside jokes" are so close this time sown, that probably only those who really enjoy the book properly, are very well read. Besides the references to the English classics such as Wuthering Heights , Dickens, Shakespeare, Alice in Wonderland There , Greek mythology, there are numerous references to the English popular literature, science fiction and crime, as well as oral literature, such as nursery ryhmes that for the German readers are often not completely understand. But readers with interest and curiosity of literature can be put off by course not, but, on the contrary, much more pull in the spell.
Fforde also plays in this part again with all the means of the written Word of the "footnote phone" to a "mispeling Vyrus" everything is possible, and if you think the author has already exhausted all that he surprises his readers again.
addition to these games, which make the heart beat of every literature geeks higher, are also those readers on the costs that the story always chasing. Thursday is still catching up looking for a way back to her husband, another scion of the family Hades - by Vlad "the Impaler" as "unspeakably repellent called "-, is after them, they must make clear to murder to make the escaped Minotaur arrest, prevent the complete destruction of a manuscript to stop the strike of nursery ryhmes , Amor play, awarded a prize at the book world Awards .. . and that despite all allmorgenlicher nausea.
I myself, although I did not understand some references, are among the geeks, is Well Of Lost Plots clear to me now the best, funniest and most interesting book the Thursday Next series. Whether the Fforde with Volume 4, Something Rotten , nor can offer?
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