Some books make me laugh a one
syllable laugh. Or simply smile. But this book forced me to laugh. The sound
poured out of my mouth, and I couldn't stop. His whole book is endless in its
original, crazy, weird (I could go on) ideas and they are so natural that it
seems nobody wrote the book, it just 'happened'. The Eyre Affair makes you envy
how he writes from one witty sentence, what's more when I read this book, my
stomach actually hurt from laughing so much.
The Eyre Affair is the first of 4
books in 1 of 2 series. A quote- 'Meet Thursday Next, literary detective
without equal, fear or boyfriend.' Thursday is a member of SpecOps 27, (Special
Operatives Literary Department. She deals with book theft, false findings of Shakespeare's
lost manuscripts, and currently on the trail of the stolen Dickens manuscript,
Martin Chuzzlewit- ( Thursday lives in a dimension just like ours, however some
parts of history have taken different paths, for example, the Crimean war has,
at present, lasted 32 years. Later in the series there is mention of our
dimension).
Soon she is on the trail of an old enemy,
Acheron Hades. Be warned: This book contains characters coming out of their
books, a new and debatably 'happy' ending to Jane Eyre, lots of time travelling
and a pair of silver scissors. Also a genetically engineered Dodo.
Student Librarian
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