Fforde, Jasper - The Eyre Affair

[oyceter]

Another one of the "I was running out of books and desperately had to pick something up" buys. Plus, the cover described it as a cross between Monty Python, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking, and Buffy.

It's not all that much like Buffy imho, but it's good fun, especially to a bookworm. It's set in an alternate Britain which needs time cops and literary detectives, and that alone would have snagged me -- it's a world in which people ardently care as to who really wrote Shakespeare's plays and Baconians go around protesting and there is a Bronte Appreciation Society.

Very much a mystery novel type voice, so I didn't get very emotionally involved, but then, I didn't quite think that was the point. I was having fun with the Jane Eyre stuff (I really need to read that now).

I did also feel Thursday's long-lost love thing with Landen was kind of stupid.

I think my brain has just shut down.

Mostly the book made me think more about the Genre Rant and how it is really a sci-fi book or a mystery, but it's shelved in literature because it's respectable. Kind of like the marketing for Crusie -- she says she's still writing romances, but that's not how they're selling them.

Links:
- rilina's review
- minnow1212's review

Comments

I love Buffyannotater,

[anneth.livejournal.com]

but I have to disagree that the 2nd and 3rd books are better. When you've read them, we can have us a rip-roaring discussion. I do think Landen's a drip, though.

Re: I love Buffyannotater,

[oyceter]

Hrm. Still up in the air on this -- waiting to see if 1) I can read them for free from the bookstore or the library and 2) the giant stack of other books to be read doesn't bury me alive first ;).