The Eyre Affair
by Jasper Fforde, Roxane Azimi · first published 2001
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The Eyre Affair Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who
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"The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel" by Jasper Fforde, it starts slow, so give it 100 pages but I was hooked then and read all other books from him (and all are excellent). "Last Chance to See" by Douglas Adams and…
on “Ask HN: What were the best fun books you read in 2014?” ↗Help in coping post-Pratchett: Jasper FForde [0] - first 6 of 7 "Thursday Next" stories (starting with Eyre Affair), Nursery Crime books, Early Riser (possibly) The audio books of these are as good as the Discworld stories in terms of narrator-fit. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Fforde
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