Something Rotten

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

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Detective Thursday Next has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap--as outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon's patron saint foretells doom, and if that isn't bad enough, back in the Book World The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet. Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop this hostile takeover? Can she vanquish Kaine and prevent the world from plunging into war? And, most important, will she ever find reliable childcare?

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Thursday Next submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 29, 2013, 12:27pm Part of the "Thursday Next" detective series, "Something Rotten" picks up the adventures of its title character in the Book World (as opposed to her own "real" world, an alternative version of England).

The novel begins with Thursday working as the head of the literary police force Jurisfiction hunting the Minotaur who escaped in the previous "Thursday Next" book. The Big Brother-like Goliath Corporation has erased Thursday's husband's existence from time, but not her son, Friday, who is now 2.

The pair go to visit the grandmother in the "read" Swindon as Hamlet tags along (hence the book's title). Thursday get her old job back at SpecOps-27 as a Literary Detective but her old nemesis Yorrick Kaine is trying to kill her. To make matters worse, her friends from the Book World say the places is going to pieces without her leadership.

This series is great for geeks who love literature, especially those who majored in it or in English. The series has numerous allusions to literature. The "real" world of Thursday Next is also fun as a science fiction wonderland. Scientists there have cloned neanderthals, dodos and even wooly mammoths, who now freely roam the countryside. It's a fun series, although the quality diminishes with each installment.