Jessica at Quirky Bookworm created a summer reading program--one of my favorite things ever! Click over to her website for other reviews of The Eyre Affair.
Read while
home alone? sure
Tissues
needed? nope
Overall
rating: 3.5 stars
Summary:
Special
Operations Agent Thursday Next is part of a literary police force. Typically
this position includes tasks such as authenticating manuscripts and guarding
original works. Agent Next isn’t ordinary, though. In a world where the real
world and the fictional world sometimes overlap, she travels through time and
worlds to capture a dangerous criminal while improving a literary masterpiece.
Reaction:
This was an interesting book and I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t
a quick read. I wonder if I would have enjoyed it more if I were more familiar
with Jane Eyre. I had some trouble engaging with the book—although the
book is set in 1985 or so, it involves some futuristic ideas like time travel
and unique inventions. Once I got around that, The Eyre Affair was fun
to contemplate. I’ve read some other time travel books that have made me think
about how even the tiniest change in the past can dramatically change the
future. The Eyre Affair addressed that…sort of…but not quite as well as
I would have liked. I did enjoy the various literary discussions characters had
throughout the book and they made me want to find out more about some of the
controversies they addressed. Overall, The Eyre Affair is worth reading,
but no rush.
What literary character would you like to meet? If you traveled in time, where would you go? Who/what would you see? If you could be part of a novel, which one would it be?
What literary character would you like to meet? If you traveled in time, where would you go? Who/what would you see? If you could be part of a novel, which one would it be?
I'm in love with Jane Austen and would love to have witnessed their era. Granted I wouldn't have wanted to live in it, especially as a woman haha, but everything about their world seems so quaint and pretty.
ReplyDeleteIt does seem so refined, doesn't it? But I think you're right--seeing that world from a safer distance is probably a better fit for me, too!
DeleteThanks so much for linking up! Re-reading The Eyre Affair this last week has made me eager to re-read Jane Eyre again - I think it's been 15 years since I read it.
ReplyDeleteI think the Thursday Next series gets more fun as they go along. Once you're familiar with Fforde's alternate version of 1985, then the other books are very quick reads.
I didn't realize this was a series--looks like my library list will be growing! hmmmm...now I'm wondering where I'd like Thursday to go. Some fairy tales maybe? All the way back to Shakespeare to get the real scoop? Endless options!
DeleteYou mentioned the fun names in your post, and I really liked those as well. Braxton Hicks, Victor Analogy...just clever!
By the way -- I love the "read while home alone" bit at the beginning, meant to say that yesterday. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks...I can be a bit of a scared-y cat, so just having someone else around makes me brave! :)
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