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One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Taking place almost entirely in the Bookworld, this story suffers a little for Thursday less strong than normal. As with all Fforde books, however, the finale ties together disparate plot elements well, this time with what feels like a funny pastiche of Heart Of Darkness.
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First Among Sequels
Takes a while to get going, with a lot of exposition and a number of seemingly unrelated threads, but really sparkles in the last third as they are expertly woven together. Fforde’s appetite for metaphor and the subversion of narrative mechanics is seemingly boundless. This thinly veiled critique on modern society’s lack of attention span […]
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Something Rotten
More laughs from Fforde with his customary punning and wit. He has built a funny and coherent narrative throughout the series and it is nice to have a resolution to some of the sub-plots here, even as other avenues are opened up. And where else would you find Hamlet, Emperor Zhark and The Jabberwocky all […]
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