Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde

[catbert836]

These books are hilarious. They take place in an alternate universe where Britain is a police state, literature is taken way too seriously (supporters of the theory that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays go door-to-door), time travel is common, the Crimean War is entering its 130th year, the country is run by the omnipresent Goliath Corporation, which is above the law, people worship the GSD (Global Standard Deity) to avoid religious conflicts and people enter books at will to interact with the charachters, and in cases of literary vandalism, kidnap and kill them. The protagonist is named Thursday Next, and she is a literature cop who resembles Bridget Jones, Nancy Drew, and Dirty Harry rolled into one.
I'm on the first one, the Eyre Affair, in which Jane Eyre is kidnapped from the pages of the original copy of Charlotte Bronte's book by the laughingly stereotypical archvillan Acheron Hades, so all the editions end with her being kidnapped. There are three more to go after this one.
Has anyone else read them? I highly recommend them to anyone who's interested.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

1. I've read all four

And they are all excellent reads. Some previews: Genetically engineered neaderthals, Miss Havisham a race car fanatic, and a hilarious Goliath board meeting trying to market penguins as the next "other white meat."

[Debbi801]

2. I loved the first 3. Could not finish the 4th, just did not enjoy it (nt)

[flamingyouth]

3. I've read the first three.

They're a hoot. I didn't know there was a fourth. Thanks. :hi:

[bikebloke]

4. Tried them

He lost me by the time I finished the second. And I wanted to like it. So I skipped the others.