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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 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 And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside?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 forcewill appeal to fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse. Thursday s zany investigations continue with Something Rotten. Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including One of Our Thursdays is Missing and Jasper Fforde s latest bestseller, The Woman Who Died A Lot. Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world!"
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 375
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 31 Jul 2004
ISBN 10: 0143034359
ISBN 13: 9780143034353
Fforde creates a literary reality that is somewhere amid a triangulation of Douglas Adams, Monty Python, and Miss Marple.
--The Denver Post
Fforde has created a legion of fans with work that moves beyond clever into the realm of the creatively twisted, a space sparsely inhabited by those who can both envision and portray a skewed world . . . . The Well of Lost Plots reads nicely as a stand-alone and avoids the serious misstep of being a retread of its predecessors.
--The Denver Post
Fforde's inventiveness remains a bookworm's delight.
--Entertainment Weekly
Marvelous creations like syntax-slaughtering grammasites and the murderous Minotaur roam this unusual novel's pages, and Fforde's fictional epigraphs, like his minihistory of 'book operating systems, ' are worth the cover price in themselves. Fforde's sidesplitting sendup of an increasingly antibookish society is a sheer joy.
--Publishers Weekly
Great fun--especially for those with a literary turn of mind and a taste for offbeat comedy . . . My favorite in the series so far.
--The Washington Post Book World
Murderously fun . . . . A delightful, satirical frolic through literature . . . . Unique and wildly entertaining.
--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Charles Dickens was one of the British Isles' most popular novelists, and Jasper Fforde is winging into a similar stature on his Victorian coattails . . . You don't need to have read either of Fforde's first two books . . . to keep up with much of the action in The Well of Lost Plots. But why wouldn't you?
--The Oregonian (Portland)
Even more fun than its predecessors.
--Orlando Sentinel
Like Alice down the rabbit hole, a reader of Fforde's books falls into a crazy and often quite funny world, where satire meets silliness. Once again, this author's imagination seems to know no bounds.
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fforde's bibliophile japery is in the school of Douglas Adams--think of it as a hitchhiker's guide to the library.
--The Guardian (London)
Bibliophiles will find . . . The Well of Lost Plots a hoot . . . Exceptionally clever.
--The Rake
Fforde has settled comfortably into series mode, producing another fun romp in an alternate universe where books are more real than reality.
--Library Journal
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