The Fourth Bear and Jindabyne

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Today I trekked into the city to get Jasper Fforde's latest book The Fourth Bear. If you like Douglas Adams, or Terry Pratchett, you might like Fforde. I first heard of him when he did an interview on NPR in which he read a passage from his then latest book, where Hamlet, prince of Denmark, is forced to decide what kind of coffee to get when he steps into a modern (198x) coffee shop and is bewildered by the insurmountable choices (Hamlet being well known for his indecisiveness). Maybe you had to be there.

I was pleased to learn than Fforde's next book will be a Thursday Next novel.

Tonight I went to see the Australian film Jindabyne. See it if you get the chance.

Comments

[handlet.livejournal.com]

Yay! I love the Thursday Next books. I've been meaning to check out his other work, which I will...once I make a dent in my huge "to-read" pile. :]

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I enjoyed The Big Over Easy. I didn't pick up on it initially, but it is Caversham Heights, the novel in development Thursday hides in during The Well of Lost Plots. So the two universes are connected, but they are also distinct.

[princeofsocks.livejournal.com]

perhaps some people "had to be there," but that sounds hilarious to me.

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You should definitely try to pick up The Eyre Affair (the first in the series), I think you'd like it. I got nearly all of the Thursday Next books on half.com for a song.