The Well of Lost Plots

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Call Number: Adult BOCD / Fiction / General / Fforde, Jasper
On Shelf At: Pittsfield Branch

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Compact discs.
Unabridged.
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Narrated by Emily Gray.
Thursday Next needs some downtime. After two best sellers, she was at her wit's end, not to mention pregnant and ready for a restful stint in the Character Exchange Program down in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots. But there, she discovers a linguistic free-for-all where grammasites run rampant, lousy books are scrapped for salvage, and a murderer is stalking Jurisdiction personnel.

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Thursday Next submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 29, 2013, 1:30pm Anyone who majored in English or literature will adore the "Thursday Next" series with its constant literary allusions. I highly recommend this series that makes lit geeks like myself feel smart.

The series is set in an alternate version of Swindon, England. In it, scientists have cloned and brought back to everyday life neanderthals, dodo birds, wooly mammoths and other creatures. People travel in dirigibles, rather than airplanes. Wales is a separate nation from England and cheese has become a black market commodity. The entire universe and series is highly entertaining. However, in "The Well of Lost Plots" the author begins to change the rules about how literary characters live and who they are. They stop being the characters themselves and become actors who play a role when someone is reading the novel.

In this book, Thursday Next is hiding from the Big Brother-like Goliath Corporation in an unpublished novel. Goliath runs everything and is angry at Thursday for foiling their evil plans in the last book, so they eradicate Thursday's husband from the timeline as if he never existed.

Fforde's rule change is necessary for the plot line of "The Well of Lost Plots," but it takes away from the sense of magical realism of the previous two novels.

Nonetheless, I find the "Thursday Next" series enjoyable and read every one.