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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next) (Paperback)

by Jasper Fforde (Author)
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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (19 Jul 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 034073356X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340733561
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (94 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 820 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Pirouetting on the boundaries between sci-fi, the crime thriller and intertextual whimsy, Jasper Fforde's outrageous The Eyre Affairputs you on the wrong footing even on its dedication page, which proudly announces that the book conforms to Crimean War economy standard.

Fforde's heroine, Thursday Next, lives in a world where time and reality are endlessly mutable--someone has ensured that the Crimean War never ended for example--a world policed by men like her disgraced father, whose name has been edited out of existence. She herself polices text--against men like the Moriarty-like Acheron Styx, whose current scam is to hold the minor characters of Dickens' novels to ransom, entering the manuscript and abducting them for execution and extinction one by one. When that caper goes sour, Styx moves on to the nation's most beloved novel--an oddly truncated version of Jane Eyre--and kidnaps its heroine. The phlegmatic and resourceful Thursday pursues Acheron across the border into a Leninist Wales and further to Mr Rochester's Thornfield Hall, where both books find their climax on the roof amid flames.

Fforde is endlessly inventive: his heroine's utter unconcern about the strangeness of the world she inhabits keeps the reader perpetually double-taking as minor certainties of history, literature and cuisine go soggy in the corner of our eye. The audacity of the premise and its working out provides sudden leaps of understanding, many of them accompanied by wild fits of the giggles. This is a peculiarly promising first novel. --Roz Kaveney

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'The reader is catapulted in and out of truth and imagination on a hectic, humorous and neatly constructed chase’

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous book - worth missing sleep to read, 31 Jul 2001
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I loved this book. I lost sleep in order to read it (probably my ultimate accolade for a book). From the first page it all hangs together, despite the fact the alternate 1985 it's set in is so different that you can't take anything for granted. You just have to run with the blank bits in the world view until they get filled in (they do, eventually). The idea of a world where literature is popular culture just appealed to me, finally a book that rewards you for having read some of the classics (I think you'd still enjoy it without that though).

And a heroine who never once worries about her weight.

Its got it all, plot, characters (I'm still not sure how someone with as few appearances an Landon can come across so strongly as a character), jokes (possibly you need a slightly odd sense of humour) and two happy endings. If you need down to earth reality where you know exactly where you stand, this probably isn't the book for you. If you're happy to let reality look after itself for a couple of hours, you should like it.

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Fun, 28 Sep 2006
By SJ SMART "Smartie" (London) - See all my reviews
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This book is great!!!!!!!!

I was given this book as a gift one Christmas by a good friend but sadly I left it on a bookshelf for a few months and then took it on a long plane journey, and what a great choice it was!!! I was totally hooked, be prepared for a gripping well written original and funny story in which anything can happen - people jump in and out of books, time travel, vampires, airships, riots about art and literature,, the British Crimean peninsula, people knocking on doors to convert you to theories about Shakespeare and on it goes. You are constantly surprised. I bought the rest of the series as soon as I got back and have not been disappointed, you wont be either. Buy this book and spread the word.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars No Eyre-Head Detective Here, 5 Aug 2006
By Gail Williams "Pezzini" (Swansea, Wales) - See all my reviews
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At last, a readable, enjoyable, female detective!

It always annoys me that there aren't enough well written women detectives in fiction, so when I saw this one on offer, I figured, what the Hell, I've read worse books in my time, might as well give this a go. And boy and I glad I did!

Thursday Next is one of the most alive characters I've read in a long time. This representation of Rochester - as unexpected as it was - had me going back to a version of `Jane Eyre' that I brought years ago. So I checked the references in `The Eyre Affair' with `Jane Eyre' and straight away after read `Jane Eyre' for the fist time in my life - two good books for the price of one.

The story twists and turns, but never fails to amuse, the covert, and occasionally obvious, cross-references brought out some real laughs. I loved the idea of the Socialist Republic of Wales, being a conservative in Swansea this really appealed, and no, it doesn't always rain here.

So give it a try, pick up `The Eyre Affair', read and enjoy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Read. Perfect beginning to a Wonderful series.
Those who slate this book arent being fair to the skill and literary genuis gone in to creating it. After reading the Eyre affair i went on to read the whole series and the... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Laura Collie

5.0 out of 5 stars Been waiting for this book all my life!!
If, like me, you like books that celebrate books, words, language, other worlds - this is for you.

Admittely, Jasper Fforde's book isn't easy to get into at first;... Read more
Published 4 months ago by BookJumper

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Don't waste your time reading this puerile trash. It is dull in the extreme and unimaginative. Given the suspension of the usual contraints of time the story could have been so... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Charlotte Irwin

3.0 out of 5 stars I'm in agreement with the Kirkus Review
Mildly amusing idea, but the plot doesn't really get going until she gets inside the book - and that takes a long, long time.
Published 5 months ago by K. A. Engel

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde is nothing short of a work of pure Literary genius. This obviously means that I loved it! Read more
Published 5 months ago by D. Cotton

4.0 out of 5 stars Promising start to the series
An enjoyable read. The somewhat surreal alternative Britain in which the novel is set would appeal to fans of Terry Pratchett and Robert Rankin. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Colin Forbes

4.0 out of 5 stars WOW! What a book!
I have just finished reading 'The Eyre Affair' by Jasper Fforde and I want to recommend it to everyone! Read more
Published 7 months ago by L. Perkins

4.0 out of 5 stars Witty, Strange and Clever but not for everyone
First let me declare an interest here. For my sins I live and grew up within fifteen miles of Swindon. Read more
Published 8 months ago by C. Green

4.0 out of 5 stars A LOT of fun...
Having read two of the Thursday Next books (and about to start my third), I'd just like to say that I agree with some of the points raised about characterisation being a little... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Ivy L.

4.0 out of 5 stars not quite as good as I thought it was going to be
I had a lot of hype from people about the book, and while I did enjoy it, I thought it was a little misnamed as the main plot of the book wasn't about Jane Eyre, but other books... Read more
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