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<title>Jasper Fforde</title>
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<title>Re: Yes, weird about fits -</title><link>https://dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,61573,62617#msg-62617</link><description><![CDATA[I wanted so much to like The Eyre Affair. The whole premise is so clever and I wanted it to jell into the same sort of love I have for Patrick O'Brien. Just didn't happen. I think in SciFi/Fantasy authors sometimes get so wrapped up in world building that they allow that to divert from the story. There just wasn't enough Eyre in the affair for me.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Susan Kaye</dc:creator>
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<title>Yes, weird about fits -</title><link>https://dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,61573,61679#msg-61679</link><description><![CDATA[- and I suppose one either loves it or hates it, there doesn't seem to be any middle ground.<br /><br />Have you read <i>Shades of Grey</i> yet? I am eager to read that one, though I heard it's quite a bit different from the other books. And then, I recently read on Fforde's website that he also has a book about dragonslayers out this autumn - and the summary looked quite intriguing!]]></description>
<dc:creator>Mari A.</dc:creator>
<category>JAFF Library</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:14:50 +0000</pubDate></item>
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<title>Re: I don&#039;t know</title><link>https://dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,61573,61678#msg-61678</link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, pretty much everything in Fforde's oeuvre has some sort of sci-fi/fantasy-ish elements in it. Even the Nursery Crime Division books are fairly off the wall. I think, if I had to give him a genre, it would be <i>"Weird"</i>... which is probably why I like his work so much!<br /><br />I'd love the copy, but I've already got two :)]]></description>
<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
<category>JAFF Library</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:40:45 +0000</pubDate></item>
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<title>Re: I don&#039;t know</title><link>https://dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,61573,61665#msg-61665</link><description><![CDATA[I don't do sci-fi and fantasy, no. I kept hoping that when the initial scene ended, she would go home and be normal, but there were some weird things there too.<br /><br />Anyone who wants it can have it for christmas.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Lise</dc:creator>
<category>JAFF Library</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:41:55 +0000</pubDate></item>
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<title>Re: I don&#039;t know</title><link>https://dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,61573,61663#msg-61663</link><description><![CDATA[I'll be the first to admit that Jasper Fforde is really, <i>really</i> weird - which I happen to like, but I know others don't - but here, you have the added disadvantage that <i>Something Rotten</i> is the fourth of - so far - five novels in the Thursday Next series of books.<br /><br />If you do want to give it another try, you might like to start with <i>The Eyre Affair</i>, or if you want to try another series, <i>The Big Over Easy</i>, the first in the Nursery Crime series.<br /><br />I find Fforde absolutely awesome and hilarious, but it's true, his books have sci-fi and fantasy elements and a lot of simply absurd plot twists, so it's not everyone's cup of tea. Lots of literary in-jokes too.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Mari A.</dc:creator>
<category>JAFF Library</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:03:24 +0000</pubDate></item>
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<title>I don&#039;t know</title><link>https://dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,61573,61658#msg-61658</link><description><![CDATA[It's called Something Rotten. I haven't read the others, but I once read that someone around here liked them. Or multiple someones.<br /><br />I don't think it's my style. Now what...]]></description>
<dc:creator>Lise</dc:creator>
<category>JAFF Library</category><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:27:00 +0000</pubDate></item>
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<title>The new one?</title><link>https://dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,61573,61582#msg-61582</link><description><![CDATA[I saw he had one coming out, but that it was only available in Europe.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
<category>JAFF Library</category><pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:06:49 +0000</pubDate></item>
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<title>Jasper Fforde</title><link>https://dwiggie.com/phorum/read.php?16,61573,61573#msg-61573</link><description><![CDATA[So weird. I don't know if I'll make it to the end.]]></description>
<dc:creator>Lise</dc:creator>
<category>JAFF Library</category><pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:41:45 +0000</pubDate></item>
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