The Woman Who Died a Lot
Oct 24, 2012
The Woman who Died a Lot
Author: Jasper Fforde
ISBN-13: 9780670025022
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 10/2/2012
Book Description:
The Bookworld’s leading
enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a
semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to
Swindon and her family to recuperate.
But Thursday’s children have
problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday’s career
struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a
might-have-been; Tuesday’s trouble perfecting the Anti-Smote shield,
needed in time to thwart an angry Deity’s promise to wipe Swindon off
the face of the earth; and the issue of Thursday’s third child, Jenny,
who doesn’t exist except as a confusing and disturbing memory.
With Goliath attempting to
replace Thursday at every opportunity with synthetic Thursdays, and a
call from the Bookworld to hunt down Pagerunners who have jumped into
the Realworld, Thursday’s convalescence is going to be anything but
restful as the week ahead promises to be one of the Next family’s
oddest.
Idgie Says:
This is the 7th novel in the series so I'm assuming that it has a nice literary following for the story. I say this only because when you read the book description, the story doesn't really seem to make a lick of sense. It's really out there in terms of "plot". The author has been compared to Douglas Adam and I will agree with that.
This is a story about the book police and for bibliophiles it's a fun read about a woman who lives in literature and has her plot being re-written all the time. I will say that for all it's zany plot patterns, it is written in a surprisingly direct and sensible manner. The story might not make much sense, but it's not hard to read.
I book to read for the "literary insider" laughs.
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