The Well of Lost Plots
Ratings37
Average rating4.1
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Ratings37
Average rating4.1
The third book in the phenomenal Thursday Next series from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. In the words of one critic: 'Don't ask. Just read it.' Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in 'Mill on the Floss' - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it ... With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'.
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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.
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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.
