Thursday Next
A bookworm's treat! That's one of the best compliments I can give to any book, and this series of novels by Jasper Fforde deserves the title like no other in the postmodern literature movement! A very literary inclined friend of mine suggested that I read this series. Or at least the first book, The Eyre Affair . She insisted that for someone who has grown up with English literature as the backbone for her love of books, this would definitely provide for interesting reading! And how right she was! The protagonist, Thursday Next , is an agent with the Literary Division of SpecOps , daughter of Wednesday and Colonel Next , niece to Mycroft and Polly Next, one an inventor and the other a brilliant mathematician. They live in a world, an alternate (and republic) England, with George Fromby is President, where literature is taken seriously. So seriously that people are named, or change their names, to their favorite authors, and have to be tattooed with an identification number; ...