The Well Of Lost Plots: Thursday Next Book 3 by Jasper Fforde (English) Paperbac

Description: The Well Of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde The third in Jasper Ffordes phenomenally successful Thursday Next series: into the Bookworld! FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights.Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday s memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in Mill on the Floss - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is accidentally eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it ...With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, The Well of Lost Plots is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for scampi. Notes The third in his phenomenally successful series, this is the book that will break out Jasper Fforde from cult hit to international bestseller. Massive promotions and reviews. "Dont ask. Just read it. Fforde is a true original" Sunday Express Author Biography Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring out of the window and sucking the end of a pencil. He lives and works in Wales and has a passion for aviation. The Well of Lost Plots is his third novel. Review Jasper Fforde has gone where no other fictioneer has gone before. Millions of readers now follow ... Thank you, Jasper - John Sutherland, GuardianA born wordsmith of effervescent imagination - Christina Hardyment, Independent[Ffordes] brand of inspired lunacy truly stands on its own ... this new book completes his creation of a world of true literary comic genius - Sunday Express on The Well of Lost PlotsThe third of this cult series sees Jasper Fforde hitting his stride ... should be a joy to anyone who loves reading - Time Out on The Well of Lost PlotsAn immensely enjoyable, almost compulsive experience - New York Times on Lost in a Good BookDouglas Adams would be proud - Scotsman on Lost in a Good BookDont ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original - Sunday Express on Lost in a Good BookThis years grown-up JK Rowling - Sunday Times Promotional The third in Jasper Ffordes phenomenally successful Thursday Next series: into the Bookworld! Kirkus UK Review At the end of Lost in a Good Book, heroine and literary detective Thursday Next was planning a quiet retreat to a little-read novel. Her husband Landen has been eradicated by the evil Goliath corporation in a time-travel operation that engineered his death aged two in an accident, and Thursday, pregnant with his child, is the only person who remembers him. Shes determined to rescue him, but before starting out on that dangerous mission she decides to rest safely in an unpublished manuscript until the baby is born. Or at least thats her intention. On her arrival in Caversham Heights, a fourth-rate crime novel set in Reading, she discovers that all is not well in the book world. The loner maverick detective with a drink problem is traumatised by his uninteresting role, the pathologist has only been trained as a mother figure in domestic potboilers, and worst of all Caversham Heights itself is under threat of being recycled into plain text. As Thursday travels into the cavernous Well of Lost Plots in an attempt to salvage the situation, she encounters terrifying grammasites, a rampaging mispeling vyrus and a suspicious plan to replace the book with a new technology. Worst of all, her foe Aornis, sister of Acheron Hades, is entering her memory by night and eliminating all trace of Landen. Ffordes imagination is as fertile as ever; from the training academy for fictional characters to the anger-management classes in Wuthering Heights the reader is swept along on a tide of baffling and hilarious invention, with literary references every other line and a nice line in affectionate mockery (just why are breakfasts, minor illnesses and underwear so rare in fiction?). Occasionally the plot becomes too complex for its own good, and, set entirely in the underworld of novels, it sometimes feels like a fill-in between the excitements and terrors of Lost in a Good Book and the thrills that were certain to encounter in the next instalment. But Ffordes incapable of writing a dull line, and anything featuring Thursday, Pickwick the dodo and Miss Havisham (here seen trying to beat Toad for the land speed record) cant fail to entertain the reader throughout. Lie back and enjoy. (Kirkus UK) Kirkus US Review Third course in a feast of hyperliterary alternate-reality thrillers (The Eyre Affair, 2002, etc.) may prove too rich for some stomachs. Ffordes story takes place in several parallel universes that manage, against all laws of logic and geometry, to intersect at many, many points. Our heroine, literary detective Thursday Next, is the nexus of this strangely wired cosmos. Thursday has just returned from the pages of Jane Eyre, in which she foiled archvillain Acheron Hades attempt to steal the ending. Now pregnant (by a dead veteran of the Crimean War) and badly in need of rest, she requests an assignment in the Character Exchange Program and is sent to fill in for Mary Jones, detective in a dreadful unpublished thriller. Like all unpublished books, Caversham Heights exists in a kind of limbo in the Well of Lost Plots, a warren of sub-basements in the Great Library where all books are born, but few see the light of day. Thursday works her way through Marys role in the hopeless plot, glad of a safe job for change, but she soon finds plenty of extratextual distractions that hint at trouble ahead. Within the ranks of Jurisfiction (a kind of FBI of the text world), a string of murders begins to claim the lives of various authorities connected with a new process of plot development. Thursday learns that her late husband is not dead at all but was in fact "eradicated" at the behest of rogue elements within Jurisfiction. Between teaching her "generic" houseboys Ibb and Obb how to cook, fending off hostile grammasites (literary parasites that infest a plot with gerunds), and facing Jurisfiction charges that she changed the ending of Jane Eyre, Thursday still has to find the time to solve the various crimes now springing up within and without the text. For instance, who stole the commas from Joyces Ulysses? Like anchovies, Wagner, and Helmut Newton: will greatly appeal to people with unusual tastes-and befuddle everyone else. (Kirkus Reviews) Long Description Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights.Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday s memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in Mill on the Floss - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is accidentally eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it ...With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, The Well of Lost Plots is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for scampi. Review Quote This years grown-up JK Rowling Promotional "Headline" The third in Jasper Ffordes phenomenally successful Thursday Next series: into the Bookworld! Description for Sales People Winner of the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Award for Comic Fiction Details ISBN0340825936 Author Jasper Fforde Pages 384 Year 2004 ISBN-10 0340825936 ISBN-13 9780340825938 Format Paperback Media Book Language English Edition 04000th Imprint Hodder Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Series Thursday Next DEWEY 823.92 Subtitle Thursday Next Book 3 Illustrations None Publication Date 2004-01-19 Publisher Hodder & Stoughton Series Number 3 UK Release Date 2004-01-19 Audience General NZ Release Date 2004-02-11 AU Release Date 2004-02-11 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:518354;

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