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One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing (2011)

by Jasper Fforde(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1456123688 (ISBN13: 9781456123680)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Viking Adult

series

Thursday Next

review 1: As usual mr fforde does a remarkable job of mining literature and occassionally popular culture for innumerable references to bolster his plot. And what's not to like about adding epizeuxis to ones vocabulary? Ok-- repetition for dramatic effect. Thursday is missing-- or not. Who's to know? But there are important mysteries in book world that only some Thursday somewhere can untangle. Frequent snickers interspersed with giggles and snorts take one through the usual ingenious tangled events. And I'm not even English. Bet a book loving British reader could find even more amusing references. Such fun!! Please keep at it mr fforde.
review 2: I wish I could have rated this book 3-1/2 stars. This is the 6th book in the series and it seemed a little "flat."... more I'm not sure if Mr. Fforde is running out of ideas, if after 6 books the idea of Bookworld isn't as fresh and charming, or if this story just didn't measure up to the previous books in the series. I took longer to "buy into" this book.The heroine of this story is the written Thursday Next, heroine of the series about the Outworld Thursday Next. Her fellow characters aren't very happy because the books are not being read--and there is no worse fate than becoming "Unread." This Thursday is a bit bland--written to be the way the real Thursday wishes she were.A book crashes and written Thursday is sent to investigate. She discovers the ISBN number has been defaced and wonders why someone would bother to do that to an obscure Vanity Press book. No one seems to take her question seriously. And no one has seen the real Thursday for several weeks. This is important as Thursday is expected at the Peace talks between Racy Novel and Women's Lit. Thus written Thursday has two mysteries to resolve.Characters from earlier books in the series appear to lend a hand as well as several new ones. The map of Fiction Island at the front of the book is useful and fun. The discussion about being Remaindered was ironic, since I found this edition (hardcover) on the Bargain Table at Barnes & Noble--for less than the price of the paperback. The humor is on the Terry Pratchett side of the scale. If you enjoy Thursday Next, then you need to read this installment, if only to encourage Mr. Fforde to write more and so you will be up to speed when reading the next novel. less

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devz

This book as you may expect has a missing Thursday - the real one. Consequently, the narrator is not Thursday but written Thursday. It was interesting to read from a slightly different perspective in that written is trying to emulate real and a lot of thinking goes into her trying to be real and herself at the same time. Mainly taking place in a reorganized BookWorld we get glimpses of real world characters and yet only glimpses of old BookWorld friends too. This is really about written Thursday and her world and of course an impending apocalypse. I enjoyed but it wasn't my favorite entry. I am hoping that 7 and 8 will be better otherwise I think maybe we should have stopped after 4.

zoks

As usual mr fforde does a remarkable job of mining literature and occassionally popular culture for innumerable references to bolster his plot. And what's not to like about adding epizeuxis to ones vocabulary? Ok-- repetition for dramatic effect. Thursday is missing-- or not. Who's to know? But there are important mysteries in book world that only some Thursday somewhere can untangle. Frequent snickers interspersed with giggles and snorts take one through the usual ingenious tangled events. And I'm not even English. Bet a book loving British reader could find even more amusing references. Such fun!! Please keep at it mr fforde.

mari

Must read series for serious readers who also happen to like aburdist fantasies.

rachel2467

I liked this one a lot better than I thought I would.

hungergamesfan59

Jetzt heißt es auf den nächsten Band warten....

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