The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next)

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Swindon is centre-stage once again in author's new book". BBC - Wiltshire. 24 February 2011 . Retrieved 6 June 2020. Combines elements of Monty Python, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but its quirky charm is all its own.

The Crimean War is a cold conflict with both sides at a stalemate but too stubborn to call for peace. A peace movement in Britain is gaining popularity. Meanwhile, Goliath has been contracted to create a plasma rifle codenamed "STONK" to overpower the Russians. The weapon should be capable of destroying a tank with a single blast. Goliath promises that STONK will soon be standard issue to the British military. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”

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We have 5 read-alikes for The Eyre Affair, but non-members are limited to two results. To see the complete list of this book's read-alikes, you need to be a member. As a general rule of literature and life, point of view matters. The perspective from which a story is told can change everything that happens in said story. Since Thursday Next is not the exclusive first person narrator she originally seems to be, The Eyre Affair 's content is complicated even further than we already knew it would be. Branching off from the Thursday Next series, whilst being set within the same universe, this novel was originally published in 2005 on the 1st of January through the Penguin publishing house. Employing his trademarked wit and irreverence once again, he this time sets up a new series set within the ‘Nursery Crime’ division, this one being the first entry. With more to come, this helped establish a new tone with new characters, whilst also keeping ties to the original series and expanding on the premises throughout. Lusty, Heather, "Struggling to Remember: War, Trauma, and the Adventures of Thursday Next", Popular Culture Review, 16:2 (2005 Summer), pp.117–29, ISSN 1060-8125 In England sind schon zwei weitere Bände mit Thursdays Abenteuern erschienen, wir müssen noch ein wenig warten, bis der schlaue, herrliche Spaß weitergeht." - Tobias Gohlis, Die ZeitWhile reading The Eyre Affair, the fact that it was published originally as a young adult novel is something to be considered. In some ways, it allows Fforde to get away with breaking several rules of literature that usually deter members of a more mature audience of traditional readers (such as the distractingly inconsistent POV, the uncomfortably cliché dialogue, etc.), but the labeling of The Eyre Affair serves more purpose than a simple excuse. Reviewers have compared Fforde to other authors, including Woody Allen, [8] [11] Sara Paretsky, [7] and Connie Willis. [10] One critic wondered if Fforde was more " Monty Python crossed with Terry Pratchett, or J. K. Rowling mixed with Douglas Adams." [3] The novel was praised for its fast-paced action, [7] [11] wordplay, [7] [12] and "off-centre humour". [3] a b c d e f g Waldren, Murray (21 September 2002). "The Fforde Ffenomenon". The Australian . Retrieved 30 October 2008.

Next shows up at the church where Parke-Laine is about to be married to another woman, but Rochester's lawyer interrupts the wedding. Next and Parke-Laine are reconciled and marry instead. Next's father, a renegade agent from SpecOps-12, the ChronoGuard, turns up to dispense some fatherly advice to his daughter. The novel ends with Next facing an uncertain future at work: public reaction to the new ending for Jane Eyre is positive, but there are other repercussions, including Goliath's fury. An unusually sure-footed first novel, this literary folly serves up a generally unique stew of fantasy, science fiction, procedural, and cozy literary mystery—but in the end is more dancing bear than ballet. Originating with the Fforde Ffestival in September 2005, [15] the Fforde Ffiesta (cf. Ford Fiesta) is an annual event built around Fforde's books and held in Thursday Next's home town of Swindon over the May bank holiday weekend. [16] People travel from afar to take part in a wide range of events, including a reenactment of the gameshow Name That Fruit, Hamlet Speed Reading competitions, and interactive performances of Richard III. A scene in which Mycroft shows Thursday his inventions is typical: there's great stuff here -- the chameleon car and especially the translating carbon paper -- but other jokes fall flat. The Eyre Affair explores the possibility of time travel and the ability to enter works of literature, therefore illustrating the chance of infinite alternate endings. Although there may be a number of people who are unhappy with the ending of many classic novels, do you think they would choose to change the outcome if given the chance?Adjective-creating creatures and maggot-like in appearance, bookworms act as portable thesauri, changing common adjectives into others (for example "nice" into "amiable" or "attractive"). Their presence is welcome in most areas, however, should too many infest one area, the area uses too many adjectives and "flowery language", making the text unreadable. If a character cannot or does not wish to bookjump, they will have to utilize a method of private transportation. The only such transportation known is that of TransGenre Taxis, a bookjumping taxi service that may be used for a monetary fee. While Jurisfiction is given a large amount of power in the BookWorld, the primary legislative government is the Council of Genres, made up of a representative from every genre in the BookWorld. Ruling upon various issues and creating ordinances to counteract them, there is no official executive of the Council of Genres. Concerning judiciary matters, the Council has no control. Courtroom scenes across the BookWorld are used for this purpose, the judge and jury of each scene presiding over the case at hand.