Comments on: The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde

by: Eric Brown

Thu, 28 Oct 2004 05:11:01 +0000

I picked up The Eyre Affair a couple of weeks ago, ripped right through it, and immediately picked up Lost in a Good Book. It's even funnier than Eyre; unfortunately, it's the first half of a duology, and ends on a cliffhanger, with several large plot threads left hanging. I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of The Well of Lost Plots from the library.

by: Craig Clarke

Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:36:31 +0000

Ah, bribery! See, now that’s something I can deal with.

by: Will Duquette

Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:54:12 +0000

Craig, what can I say?

Usually what happens when someone recommends a book to me is I say, “Hmm, that’s interesting,” and if I happen to get to a bookstore soon enough I’ll take a look. If I don’t happen to get to a bookstore soon enough I forget all about it until somebody else recommends it. In this case the second recommendation was backed up with an actual copy of the book, which made it harder to forget.

by: Craig Clarke

Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:57:30 +0000

I swear! You try to tell somebody something, even say it right there in the review, and do they listen? Sigh…

Glad you enjoyed it. Lost in a Good Book is even better. I don’t think they’re great books, by any means, but when it comes to this kind of quirky entertainment that seems tailor-made for us, you take what you can get.

by: Will Duquette

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 02:53:32 +0000

Read the first couple of pages. If they turn you off, you might as well put the book back in the shelves. But if you can fall in with their tone of pseudo-science-fictional lunacy, I think you’ll enjoy the rest of it.

by: Phil

Mon, 25 Oct 2004 02:47:02 +0000

Ok. I’ll look into it sometime. Up until now, it seemed so silly in a bad, lurid green, sort of, light. I didn’t think of it being silly in a good way.

by: Will Duquette

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:05:04 +0000

“Seems so silly”? Trust me, it is really, truly, terribly, awfully, absurdly silly. So what’s the matter with that?

by: Phil

Sun, 24 Oct 2004 20:24:30 +0000

I’ve read about these books–not so much this one, but others–and they seems so silly. Maybe literature come to life doesn’t appeal to me in most contexts. Even The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen doesn’t appeal to me right off the bat.