Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron, (Paperback)

from karieh

I love Jasper Fforde's books. I've been looking forward to "Shades of Grey" for months now - and the day I bought it was made even more special in that I was lucky enough to attend a reading and book signing of his. And? He's smart and funny - just like his books. The thing about a Jasper Fforde ...

from GingerbreadMan

Several hundred years ago, Something Happened. Since then, humankind is living in strict accordance to Our Munsell's extremely complicated and detailed rules (stating among a million other things that it's forbidden to manufacture spoons, that it's illegal to travel backwards on a unicycle and th...

from TheDivineOomba

I loved reading this book, I think its even better than Jasper Fforde Thursday Next series. This book does have a few faults in its logic, which I suspect might be explained by future books. What I like best about this world is how tightly it is written - Chromaticia is dystopia type world, where...

from fyrefly98

Summary: In Fforde's dystopian future, centuries after the mysterious Something That Happened, society is very rigidly stratified by color. But not the color of your skin or the color of your clothes, but rather the color that you can see, and how well you can see it - as decreed by the Rules, th...

from bell7

Imagine a world where everyone behaved well: there are no prisons, no wars or uprisings, everyone follows the Rules. A utopia? Maybe not. As twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is about to find out, a world in which everyone unquestioningly follows Rules that cover everything from the most mundane ("Fl...