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In the dramatis personae Fforde gives a listing of the all the characters accumulated over the previous three Thursday Next novels. Here's a test for you. Read this description of SpecOps.

[page xviii] SpecOps: Short for Special Operations, the governmental departments that deal with anything too rigorous for the ordinary police to handle. Everything from time travel to good taste.

To find out how you did in this short test ask yourself if you chuckled or otherwise found anything remotely funny about the description of SpecOps. If you answered, "Yes" you are a candidate for reading the Thursday Next series of novels and if this one is your first, you should hie yourself over to visit Thursday inside "Jane Eyre" where she shows exceptional good taste by changing the lugubrious ending to the novel. If you answered, "No" because you found nothing funny about the description, you obviously think that ordinary police have good taste and therefore you are grossly unsuited to read this review and should stay away from all Thursday Next novels. Quickly skip to the next review below.

Next, Thursday Next, that is, asks Hamlet if he'd like a coffee drink and his response mirrors what many folks feel when they are confronted with a huge array of coffee choices in a Starbucks or P.J.'s Coffeeshop. You ask a simple question and you get bombarded with an onslaught of words you never heard of before and you are expected to digest all these words and answer rationally within a second.

[page 78] "What is there?"
"Espresso, mocha, latte, white mocha, hot chocolate, decaf, recaf, nocaf, somecaf, extracaf, Goliachino(tm) . . . . what's the matter?"
Hamlet had started to tremble, a look of pain and hopelessness on his face as he stared wild-eyed at the huge choice laid out in front of him.
"To espresso or to latte, that is the question," he muttered, his free will evaporating rapidly. I had asked Hamlet for something he couldn't easily supply: a decision. "Whether `tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain," he continued in a rapid garble, "or to take a cup to go. Or a mug to stay, or extra cream, or have nothing, and opposing the endless choice, end one's heartache -- "
"Cousin Eddie!" I said sharply. "Cut it out!"
"To froth, to sprinkle, perchance to drink, and in that -- "

Maybe the "something rotten" in England is all the puns which Fforde teases us with. But he likes to have Ffun with the genre that we know and love as fiction, and when he applies himself, something spectacularly outre comes out, such as Thursday Next next begins to have sex with her newly un-eradicated husband, Landen.

[page 279] I was back in time to help Landen scrub the food off Friday, read the boy a story and put him to bed. It wasn't late, but we went to bed ourselves. Tonight there was no shyness or confusion, and we undressed quickly. He pushed me backwards onto the bed and with his fingertips --
Wait!" I cried out.
"What?"
"I can't concentrate with all those people!"
Landen looked around the empty bedroom. "What people?"
"Those people," I repeated, waving a hand in the general direction of everywhere, "the ones reading us."
Landen stared at me and raised an eyebrow. I felt stupid, then relaxed and gave out a nervous giggle.
"Sorry. I've been living inside fiction for too long; sometimes I get this weird feeling that you, me and everything else are just . . . well, characters in a book or something."
"Plainly, that is ridiculous."
"I know, I know. I'm sorry. Where were we?"
"Just here."

And just here is where you have a decision to make. Let's hope you're better at making them than Hamlet. Look, if you've made it this far through my blurb, chances are that you'll enjoy my full review and also likely that you will find yourself pulled -- as on a rickshaw pulled by a neanderthal -- through all of Fforde's Thursday Next novels. I guarantee you that your trip will be one of delight and fun, every neanderthal step of the way.

My full review can be found in DIGESTWORLD ISSUE#075 by Bobby Matherne


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Something Rotten Thursday Next Novels Jasper Fforde 9780143035411 Books Reviews

In "The Well of lost plots" we left Thursday Next as Jurisfiction`s Bellman. Now, in "Something rotten" she has already had that job for quite a few months, and even though it certainly isn`t boring, she wants something different. Thursday needs something more similar to real life, and she also misses terribly her husband (Landen Parke-Laine), erradicated by the Goliath Corporation. As a result of that, she hands in her resignation as Bellman to the Council of Genres. However, the Council doesn`t accept it and instead gives her an unlimited leave with the hope of her return, if actualizing her husband doesn`t "work out" )

Thursday returns to the real world, accompanied by her two-year-old son Friday, her two dodos (Pickwick and her somewhat aggressive son Alan), and an over-anxious Hamlet who cannot wait to know what the world thinks about him. They all stay in the house of Thursday`s mom, with Lady Emma Hamilton and Otto von Bismarck, while Thursday attempts to get her job as a Litera-Tec back, uneradicate her husband and find reliable child care.

Thursday Next has more than a few surprises in store for her, though. To start with, the previously down on his luck Yorrick Kaine is now Chancellor of England, and he is intent on dictatorship. Secondly, the Goliath Corporation is trying to change to a "faith-based corporate-managed system". And finally, the Seventh Revealment of St. Zvlkx ("Swindon will win the 1988 Super Hoop") must be fulfilled, if the Armageddon is to be avoided. As a result, we get to see a crocket game unlike anything you can imagine )

Thursday must be careful, though. Someone is trying to kill her, and she has discovered that the famous assassin "the Windowmaker" (no spelling mistakes here) has a contract on her. As if that weren`t enough, she has to keep repeating to everyone that she hasn`t been in prision for the past two years, find a solution for the anti-Danish frenzy that Kaine motivated, discover what on earth is an "ovinator", and win the most important crocket game ever!. Thankfully, she has Hamlet`s "wise" advice "Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then -and this is the most important bit- do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies".

In "Something rotten" we meet again some of our favorite characters, not only from the real world but from the Bookworld too. Who could imagine that merely because Thursday is out of the Bookworld its problems won`t follow her?. You want some examples?. Well, Emperor Zhark seeks her advice on how to scare the author of his books from "killing" him off, and she needs to put to rights "Hamlet", after an unauthorized Book Merger with "The Merry Wives of Windsor" results in "The Merry Wives of Elsinore".

Thursday also has to agree to be the SO-14 Danish Book Seizure Liasion officer in order to get back her job as a Litera-Tec, but she doesn`t exactly perform her duties well, since she arranges with her friends to smuggle illegal Danish books to the Socialist Republic of Wales... Do you need more in order to get interested and read this book?. Well, I suppose that I can also tell you that Thursday gets to meet her personal stalker and future biographer, Millon de Floss, and that she has to solve the mistery of several dead clones of a famous deceased writer )

On the whole, I believe that this book is as original as the others, and every bit as engaging. I love Fforde`s "Thursday Next" series, and I think that this book is an excellent addition to them, so I highly recommend it to you. Enjoy it!!!.

Belen Alcat
This is a great book! Fforde delivers again with all of the humor, wit and genre-bending acrobactics that made the first three novels so entertaining. The Thursday Next books are the PERFECT leisure reading for folks of a literary turn who also enjoy fun books and genres.

I want to thank Jasper Fforde for all of the Thursday Next novels, but I appreciated this one especially because our heroine is that rarest of modern characters, the heroic mother and wife. It's so wonderful to know that mothers of small children can still save the world and take on the bad guys in between naps and snacktime!

Fforde does a great job tying up all the loose ends of the previous three novels, while still maintaining the hilarious literary pop-culture noir tone that has made these books so unusual and so much fun. As it appears that this novel is the last of series, you can buy the whole set at once and keep up with the running gags and plots with ease!
Something Rotten is yet another great Thursday Next novel. In this novel, Thursday comes back to the "real" world and focuses on getting Landen back. Fforde does a great job with his postmodern references to the media, and the way he can poke fun at novels themselves is always enjoyable. Fforde also manages to tie up some loose ends that he had left hanging in some of his earlier novels. This winds up becoming a very rewarding novel if you have read the other Thursday Next novels before this one. I would definitely recommend this novel to anyone who has read other novels by Fforde. I would suggest reading the earlier Thursday Next novels first, but it is not necessarily required.

If you like mysteries, Jasper Fforde, references to classic literature, or light satire, I would recommend the Thursday Next novels for you, including this one.
In the dramatis personae Fforde gives a listing of the all the characters accumulated over the previous three Thursday Next novels. Here's a test for you. Read this description of SpecOps.

[page xviii] SpecOps Short for Special Operations, the governmental departments that deal with anything too rigorous for the ordinary police to handle. Everything from time travel to good taste.

To find out how you did in this short test ask yourself if you chuckled or otherwise found anything remotely funny about the description of SpecOps. If you answered, "Yes" you are a candidate for reading the Thursday Next series of novels and if this one is your first, you should hie yourself over to visit Thursday inside "Jane Eyre" where she shows exceptional good taste by changing the lugubrious ending to the novel. If you answered, "No" because you found nothing funny about the description, you obviously think that ordinary police have good taste and therefore you are grossly unsuited to read this review and should stay away from all Thursday Next novels. Quickly skip to the next review below.

Next, Thursday Next, that is, asks Hamlet if he'd like a coffee drink and his response mirrors what many folks feel when they are confronted with a huge array of coffee choices in a Starbucks or P.J.'s Coffeeshop. You ask a simple question and you get bombarded with an onslaught of words you never heard of before and you are expected to digest all these words and answer rationally within a second.

[page 78] "What is there?"
"Espresso, mocha, latte, white mocha, hot chocolate, decaf, recaf, nocaf, somecaf, extracaf, Goliachino(tm) . . . . what's the matter?"
Hamlet had started to tremble, a look of pain and hopelessness on his face as he stared wild-eyed at the huge choice laid out in front of him.
"To espresso or to latte, that is the question," he muttered, his free will evaporating rapidly. I had asked Hamlet for something he couldn't easily supply a decision. "Whether `tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain," he continued in a rapid garble, "or to take a cup to go. Or a mug to stay, or extra cream, or have nothing, and opposing the endless choice, end one's heartache -- "
"Cousin Eddie!" I said sharply. "Cut it out!"
"To froth, to sprinkle, perchance to drink, and in that -- "

Maybe the "something rotten" in England is all the puns which Fforde teases us with. But he likes to have Ffun with the genre that we know and love as fiction, and when he applies himself, something spectacularly outre comes out, such as Thursday Next next begins to have sex with her newly un-eradicated husband, Landen.

[page 279] I was back in time to help Landen scrub the food off Friday, read the boy a story and put him to bed. It wasn't late, but we went to bed ourselves. Tonight there was no shyness or confusion, and we undressed quickly. He pushed me backwards onto the bed and with his fingertips --
Wait!" I cried out.
"What?"
"I can't concentrate with all those people!"
Landen looked around the empty bedroom. "What people?"
"Those people," I repeated, waving a hand in the general direction of everywhere, "the ones reading us."
Landen stared at me and raised an eyebrow. I felt stupid, then relaxed and gave out a nervous giggle.
"Sorry. I've been living inside fiction for too long; sometimes I get this weird feeling that you, me and everything else are just . . . well, characters in a book or something."
"Plainly, that is ridiculous."
"I know, I know. I'm sorry. Where were we?"
"Just here."

And just here is where you have a decision to make. Let's hope you're better at making them than Hamlet. Look, if you've made it this far through my blurb, chances are that you'll enjoy my full review and also likely that you will find yourself pulled -- as on a rickshaw pulled by a neanderthal -- through all of Fforde's Thursday Next novels. I guarantee you that your trip will be one of delight and fun, every neanderthal step of the way.

My full review can be found in DIGESTWORLD ISSUE#075 by Bobby Matherne