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5.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific Time Travel Series!, Jul 16 2004
"Lost in a Good Book," the sequel to "The Eyre Affair," by entertaining storyteller, Jasper Fforde, is a terrific addition to "The Thursday Next Series." Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal concidences. This is one fun series you won't want to miss! (Highly Recommended!)
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Like most sequels this one is lacking......, Jun 17 2004
Jasper Fforde is a good writer. I sailed right through 'Lost in a Good Book' laughed several times and enjoyed the vignettes that are all through the book. But when I had finished it and thought back on the story line there wasn't much substance or connectivity between the chapters. There was a lot of easily recognizable characters from great literature with set up situations to remind you of the original story where you met them. But the plot line was thin and meandering and at the end of the book it felt like this entire book was a setup for the next one. Also, the resolution on the Jack Schitt situation was extemely unsatisfing, after having been warned repeatedly about something that she is a novice at and is extermely dangerous, Thursday Next just hops to it but then is trapped in a very conventional way.
The ride on this book is fast and the introduction of additional character traits to long established views of what you think great literature characters should/would be like is an excellant 'think outside the box' exercise. But the introduction of the other Law and Order structure of Jurisfiction makes me think that the author didn't see enough possibilities in the LiteraTec section of SpecOps and has opened up new opportunities to pull whatever he needs out of thin air. If this trend continues with this series there'll be no suspense of will they or won't they succeed, the rules will be bent in a new and different way to allow success. The character vignettes are entertaining in their own way but that's not enough to keep me coming back to even an imaginative series. I still want some logic to hang the story off of.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved getting "Lost in a Good Book", Jun 10 2004
I wouldn't have believed it possible, but this sequel is even better than Jasper Fforde's first Thursday Next novel, "The Eyre Affair." And I adored that book! But this tale has such an emotional core - still funny, but wonderfully thoughtful, as Thursday races back and forth through time, trying to save the world and her husband, Landen, who has been "eradicated" by the big, bad corporate control monster, Goliath. The time travel scenes are gorgeous, and I love how Jasper Fforde makes his readers think "outside of the box" with his fantastical concepts and characters. I was also completely delighted by Thursday's further adventures in the literary world, going everywhere from Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" into Kafka's absurd text, meeting the Cheshire Cat and Red Queen from "Alice in Wonderland," and of course, studying the fine art of "book jumping" with Miss Havisham from "Great Expectations." I LOVED this book, and greatly look forward to jumping into the next one in the series, "The Well of Lost Plots."
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