Categories: just-life
Date: 24 November 2007 00:13:47
Fourteen years after she pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, Thursday Next is grappling with a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy novels.
Her idle sixteen-year-old son would rather sleep all day than save the world from imminent destruction, the government has a dangerously high stupidity surplus, and the Stiltonista Cheese Mafia are causing trouble for Thursday in her hometown of Swindon.
Then things begin to get bad. As Reality Book Shows look set to transplant Reality TV Shows and Goliath invent a trans-fictional tourist coach, Thursday must once again have her wits about her as she travels to the very limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to rescue the reading experience from almost certain destruction...
At bloodly last that latest Jasper Fforde book, First Among Sequels, was on the shelves of my library I was able to borrow it and catch up on the latest adventure of Literary Detective (SpecOps 27) and Jurisfiction Agent, Thursday Next.
I will admit, it is slightly easier to understand what on Earth (and Fiction) is going on if you start at the begining of the series (The Eyre Affair).
Anyway, I know what I'm doing this weekend......