The Well of Lost Plots
Ratings36
Average rating4.1
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Ratings36
Average rating4.1
The third installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of The Constant Rabbit Jasper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment. After two rollicking New York Times bestselling adventures through Western literature, resourceful BookWorld literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books—like the one she has taken up residence in—are scrapped for salvage. To make matters worse, a murderer is stalking the personnel of Jurisfiction and it’s up to Thursday to save the day. A brilliant feat of literary showmanship filled with wit, fantasy, and effervescent originality, this Ffordian tour de force will appeal to fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse.
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7 primary booksThursday Next is a 7-book series with 7 primary works first released in 2001 with contributions by Jasper Fforde. The next book is scheduled for release on 1/1/2025.
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Each book in the Thursday Next series is as good as the rest. (I won't say better, just because I like them all so much, I couldn't pick a favorite.) What I find so amazing is that Jasper Fforde has created an entire world (two worlds really) and somehow everything makes sense. The explanation of the ImaginoTransferenceDevice seems entirely logical. And as a book and word nerd, I love all the little references that explain why Americans spell honor while the British spell honour, or how Uriah Hope became Uriah Heep. I can't get enough of these books.
This was great. the series is still going strong. I think I enjoyed this more than the previous book.
I find Thursday's defeat of Aornis rather feeble and unconvincing; we don't find out what the monster was or why it should attack Aornis and let Thursday go free.
The book remains inventive and readable enough, but it seems to be marking time between the previous book and the next.
