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  • Jasper Fforde creates a BookWorld that feels real... Jurisfiction (like Jurisdiction) monitors infractions within books. While employed as an agent, Thursday Next makes the unpublished book that she lives in more interesting, solves some murders, and uncovers a plot to make books boring.

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    Jasper Fforde creates a BookWorld that feels real... Jurisfiction (like Jurisdiction) monitors infractions within books. While employed as an agent, Thursday Next makes the unpublished book that she lives in more interesting, solves some murders, and uncovers a plot to make books boring.

    Miss Havisham, along with characters from Sense & Sensibility, Wuthering Heights, Alice in Wonderland, and a few of Shakespeare's plays all make appearances. My favorite chapters featured a Wuthering Heights counselling session and the BookWorld Awards that had categories such as the Dopiest Shakespearean Lead and Best Dead Person in Fiction Award. I also loved the concept of "generics" going to school in order to gain personalities for roles in new books.

    Jasper Fforde wrote this for every literary nerd out there. Haven't we all wanted to travel into our favorite books? This is the next best thing!

    

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Jasper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment. After two rollicking New York Times bestselling adventures through Western literature, resourceful literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books—like the one she has taken up residence in—are scrapped for salvage. To make matters worse, a murderer is stalking the personnel of Jurisfiction and it’s up to Thursday to save the day. A brilliant feat of literary showmanship filled with wit, fantasy, and effervescent originality, this Ffordian tour de force is the most exciting Thursday Next adventure yet.

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