Thursday Next Novel The Eyre Affair, Book 1, (Paperback)

from aethercowboy

It was some time in the 80s, after they started cloning dodo birds. I admit, I never really liked reading Jane Eyre, but at times, I wish I had paid more attention when I had read it, so that I could remember how it used to be. Who would have thought that if somebody jumped into a book, it could ...

from atimco

Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair is a fantasy set in our (somewhat re-imagined) real world. Thursday Next works in SO-27, the British Special Operations division that deals with literary crimes. Thursday has been in her fairly routine Literatec job for eight years, investigating copyright violatio...

from theokester

I am absolutely thrilled with the world of Thursday Next as created by Fforde. At first, I thought it was odd that he planned to take us a mere ~20 years into the past when creating this world. But as I continued into the story, I was entranced by the intricate world that had been created by Ffor...

from bell7

SpecOps operative Thursday Next is a Literatec. This generally means determining if a manuscript is a forgery or hoax, though there is the occasional run-in with a Baconian bent on proving that Shakespeare did not pen those plays he is famous for. Then, Thursday is approached by some folks from S...

from reading_fox

Surreal. Exceptionally funny, bizzarely odd. The Eyre Affair is a stunning debut novel set in an alternate history Swindon in 1985, So many things are different - dodo's exist, the Crimean war continues, and people like to read. Books are special. There is public outcry when a character from Dick...