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Reddit mentions of The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel
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Reddit mentions: 19
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Color | Multicolor |
Height | 0.72 Inches |
Length | 7.7 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | February 2003 |
Weight | 0.58 Pounds |
Width | 5.1 Inches |
Thursday Next from "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde (and the five or six other books in the series) is a very well written character.
Brilliant hilarious books, and she's one of the more complicated, conflicted characters around. Plus, she does in fact punch lots of stuff and shoots lots of stuff.
Basically, if you grew up on Harry Potter and then decided to major in English Lit at college but your sense of humor got irreparably warped by all the absurdist British comedies, then Thursday is your gal.
The Eyre Affair is one of those types of books I always carry around a couple of copies to give to anyone who comes across as interesting or funny or smart. Everyone love love loves it. It's the first in a series. All Fforde's other series are great too.
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Might I suggest Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor, and The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde.
Both deal with magical realism/urban fantasy, and I really enjoyed both of them.
I've just downloaded "The Jane Eyre Affair" for something fun to read over the weekend. It looks fantasy/sci-fi-ish and has been highly recommended by a couple of friends. Wanna read a book together?
The Thursday Next series has a bit of time travel.
1. The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel The first in a series, it's hilarious and FUN to read, it's about a detective who has to enter into the actual pages of Jane Eyre to prevent Jane from being murdered by a literary terrorist. It's great for the absurdists. If you like Terry Pratchett or Monty Python.
2. In the Realms of the Unreal: Insane Writings writings by schizophrenics in asylums in the early 20th century. Amazing, poetry that is heartbreaking and shows that even the least of us are human.
Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats Memphis white boy here who knows you do. not. ever. touch a black lady's hat.
3. David A Man Of Passion And Destiny Chuck Swindoll's whole Great Lives series is amazing. as an aside, I really like Chuck Swindoll's writing, but not a huge fan of his preaching. His preaching is never finished, he's in the pulpit and he's still mentally compiling things. But his books have this well researched "finished" flawlessness to them.
4a. I'd give an E-bible. I might app card for the NIV which is under copyright, but I'd most likely recommend the free ESV. I recommend having several, at least three bibles on each digital device you own - phone, ipad, backup phone, laptop. On the hard drive, not on the cloud, so if you are stuck in the desert without internet.
4b. Not sure of this, but I have an old old "Family" bible with pictures and maps that I was given by a preacher when I was 10 or 11. It's in large print, has maps (I am a sucker for maps) and there's plenty of space to write in it.
Anyways, that's my list.
We do know that religious people are far more likely to condone torture.
Also, if you haven't done so, go read Jasper Fforde's "The Eyre Affair". It's like if Douglas Adams was a fan of classic literature and decided to write in that context instead of about space ships, aliens, and robots.
Jasper Fforde actually uses this as a means of transport in his alternate timeline series of books about Thursday Next, which, by the way, I highly recommend.
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I'm currently reading (and almost finished with) The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde which I'm finding really fun. I'm enjoying it due to the fact it's a bit humorous like Terry Pratchett plus there's the possibilities that books are realities you can enter which I've always wanted to do when I was younger. Definitely a fun read.
Perhaps introduce her to Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series by giving her The Eyre Affair. Or to Sandra Gulland's Josephine Bonaparte Trilogy by giving her The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
Have you read Jasper Fforde? If you like Douglas Adams, you'll love him. He's got a few series, including the Thursday Next series that starts with The Eyre Affair. Or if you want something slightly less lighthearted, there's Shades of Grey.
For some reason, I'm a total Jasper Fforde evangelical lately, but he's fantastic.
I vouch so hard for this book you should put it on your WL
The first one is the Eyre Affair
I cannot recommend this series enough. The first book is The Eyre Affair.
The series is nearly impossible to explain. But I'm going to try. It takes place in an alternate London in 1985 and literature is taken very seriously. Thursday is a literary detective who has to save Jane Eyre from being murdered from her own book. One of the books is even about stopping the end of the world.
Check out the "Thursday Next" series of books by Jasper Fforde.
First book here. The climax takes place inside the book "Jane Eyre"
The Thursday Next books could be interesting,
I'd give anything to see this series made into films or a mini-series, but it's probably not feasible. But these might work.
Also add The Eyre Affair to your list, if you haven't read it already. It's a hilarious combination of magic and investigation. It's the first in a series, but the only one I've read. (I was reading it while my father was dying, as - coincidentally - was my brother. I just need to wait a while before reading the rest.)
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If you already tried American Gods, try Stardust from the same author. Albeit shorter,the world is rich and wonderful while the story is quite clever.
If you are looking for something totally different, try the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. The first book is Eyre Affair. It is a book about people who love to read book. It has fantasy, sci-fi, crime thriller all mashed up together perfectly. It's funny and have several meta-references to some famous title which could encourage you to read even more.
If you like classical literature you might want to try out the Thursday Next Series.
Lot's of... 'insider jokes' for people who know themselves around in the classics and really entertaining and witty to read.
If you're as big a bibliophile as you sound, you need to read the Thursday Next Novels, by Jasper Fforde. The Eyre Affair is the first one. You're going to love Bookworld.