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First Among Sequels by: Jasper Fforde List Price: £6.99 City Travel Guides Price: £4.58 You Save: £2.41 (34%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780340752029 ISBN: 0340752025 Label: Hodder Paperbacks Manufacturer: Hodder Paperbacks Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: July 24, 2008 Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks Studio: Hodder Paperbacks Sales Rank: 3777 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Bottom of the pileThere is a whole lot going on in this book, maybe too much. There are several episodes that are totally self contained and seem to be included as padding to make the book longer. I found it quite hard to figure out what this book was all about. There were so many plots, sub plots and sub sub plots that I lost the main thrust of the book. Fforde has so many clever ideas, its a pity he tried to cram too many into one book. It felt like the middle book in a trilogy - the one that sets the secen for the big climax in the last book. On the plus side, I really enjoyed the scenes with Thursday and her family. The eccentric Nexts have always been a higlight of the series for me and it looks like te next generation of Nexts are going to be a kooky ... Read More: Rating:  - Another cracker from JasperI don't laugh out loud much these days - but if I do I'm probably reading a Fforde novel. Having browsed the earlier reviews on this site I would add these comments: I agree there was a lot of plot reviewing from earlier books, but I found this helpful. Since reading "Something Rotten" I've been reading the Nursery Crime books, and all the reminders in FAS were useful memory joggers - they've also prompted me to re-read the series. Some reviewers didn't like the plot, the 'technical' ideas and the pace; also there were some comparisons with Douglas Adams. I read Fforde books in the same way I read the Adams books - I give my analytical side the day off and just enjoy the ride. I tried very hard to take as long as possible to read this book ... Read More: Rating: - A bridge novel?The first four Thursday Next novels were contained within a story arc that ended with the fourth novel. First Among Sequels attempts to get things going again, and it does pretty well to begin with. Swindon's more exotic branches of law enforcement are officially defunct, but actually continue behind the facade of a carpet superstore. The new reality takes some time to set up, and it's a while before there's any real direction to the narrative. Indeed, the amount of explantion of the ins and outs of jurisfiction and the book world in the first half is quite offputting. Fforde pulls it all together just after half way through, though, when the real story emerges, and from then on it's the familiar helter-skelter literary lunacy we've ... Read More: Rating: - The Ultimate in Literate Satire and Imaginative Story TellingIn the Thursday Next series, we've been taken into a Wonderland of imagination that creates a humorous, whimsical place where stories and characters are born, develop, thrive, and die. Each of the previous stories uncovered bits and pieces of Jasper Fforde's fertile imagination for describing how fiction gets to be that way. The current world was also knocked askew by meddling from current humans so that we don't quite recognize it, but it does seem familiar nevertheless. Inevitably, Jasper Fforde was bound to deal with that greatest of all literary challenges, a sequel that builds on what has gone before but plows little new ground. Naturally, by having created such a complex world, Mr. Fforde has to devote a fair amount of space to ... Read More: Rating: - The Ultimate in Literate Satire and Imaginative Story TellingIn the Thursday Next series, we've been taken into a Wonderland of imagination that creates a humorous, whimsical place where stories and characters are born, develop, thrive, and die. Each of the previous stories uncovered bits and pieces of Jasper Fforde's fertile imagination for describing how fiction gets to be that way. The current world was also knocked askew by meddling from current humans so that we don't quite recognize it, but it does seem familiar nevertheless. Inevitably, Jasper Fforde was bound to deal with that greatest of all literary challenges, a sequel that builds on what has gone before but plows little new ground. Naturally, by having created such a complex world, Mr. Fforde has to devote a fair amount of space to ... Read More: |
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