Comments | bilunabirotunda: Modern 30s mysteries

bilunabirotunda

Modern 30s mysteries

Sep 03, 2007 22:55

I read a series of these lately: The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde, The Last Kashmiri Rose, by Barbara Cleverly, and The Janissary Tree, by Jason Goodman. I liked all of them, but wasn't crazy about any of them. My friend Beth loaned me The Eyre Affair, but I'm proud to say that I picked out the other two all by myself. You may not think much of it ( Read more... )

jason goodman, barbara cleverly, jasper fforde

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ideaspace September 4 2007, 06:35:20 UTC

Eyre Affair *is* incomplete, and *does* continue! I think he may have arbitrarily split them for publisher reasons. The Thursday Next books get bigger and stranger, and it's well worth it for one to follow along.

If, that is, you're the sort of person who doesn't mind knowing that they're reading a book while they read a book. Apparently some folks just want to be transported mentally to a story-place and all the meta-cleverness ruins things for them. Me, I love it. I'm just sitting there cheering, "Go, Author, Go!"

bilunabirotunda September 4 2007, 17:29:21 UTC

Well, that's good to hear. I was going to read them anyway, but I'm glad if they get better. Sign of a professional writer.

I'm fine with meta, as long as the author is being meta with me rather than with himself, if you see what I mean. And the book has to have craft. If I can do better in my own imagination I get annoyed that some loser wrote a book and got a deal when I'm too lazy to do it!