The Well of Lost Plots :

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Call Number: BOCD Mystery
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Compact disc.
Read by Elizabeth Sastre.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Thursday Next submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 27, 2013, 12:57pm 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.

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 novel the readers hear less about existing literature and more about how it is manufactured in an alternate universe away from the eyes of most humans.

In this book, the now pregnant protagonist, Thursday Next, is hiding in an unpublished novel from the Big Brother-like Goliath Corporation. Goliath runs everything, 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.