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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 While employed as an agent, Thursday Next makes the unpublished book that she lives in more interesting, solves some murders, and uncovers a plot to make books boring.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 While employed as an agent, Thursday Next makes the unpublished book that she lives in more interesting, solves some murders, and uncovers a plot to make books boring.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 absolutely brilliant feat of literary showmanship. Join Thursday Next as she encounters some of the greatest characters in literature and battles deadly villians who literally leap off the page. When it comes to sheer wit, literate fantasy, and effervescent originality, nobody can touch this new Ffordian tour de force.
-Lost in a Good Book appeared on The New York Times extended bestseller list and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
-The Eyre Affair was a New York Times bestseller and a Book Sense 76 Pick
-Penguin will publish Lost in a Good Book simultaneously
-The fourth book in the series is forthcoming from Viking

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