Fran wrote:Gannon & Maud I love you guys ... how fantastic to be introduced to Jasper FForde & The Eyre Affair. I haven't laughed so much in a long time .. my God what an imagination that writer has ... OMG Jack Schitt! Especially enjoyable because by sheer co-incidence I had reread Jane Eyre about six weeks ago so it was all so fresh in my memory.
I will definitely be getting more of Jasper Fforde ... & might even place an order with the Dodo Emporium - I think maybe the V2.9.1. Much thanks guys.
Thank you both!! I am over the moon with delight!! So very pleased that you enjoyed the first book so much. We all need a bit of levity occasionally. (Maybe out in the cosmos Mr Fforde is getting the vibes). Now it's on with the second book!!Gannon wrote:Top of the morning to ya Fran, to be sure, to be sure. Maud will be over the moon that you enjoyed "Eyre" so much, as am I. "Jack Schitt" was my favourite of all the names, I laughed out loud every time his name came up, especially in conversation. I often wonder, if Maud had not posted, and I had not come into awareness of Jasper FForde, that maybe I may have never read these great books. Dodos, you got to love the dodos.
Fran, your love of Dodos will be enriched with the next Next books. Pickwick is a firm favourite and at book launches, people bring knitted, papier mache and even crocheted dodos for autographing.
Gannon, thank you for the compliment. And your science dazzled me!! With a Chaos Theory like that, I think you could ghost write for Jasper Fforde - or better still, start jotting down your own speculative sci-fi.
(PS: Did you watch the BBC TV mini-series starring Jemima Rooper entitled "Lost In Austen"? Amanda, an ardent Jane Austen fan, lives in present day London until she finds she's swapped places with Austen's fictional creation Elizabeth Bennet. It’s an amusing and romantic modern take on a wonderful old story but you have to read the book to understand the plot. It is very Jasper Fforde tongue-in-cheek.
I'm off to a Book Fair so I will close with my thanks for your wonderful comments. "Dodos rule ok".