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Original Title:	First Among Sequels
ISBN:	0670038717 (ISBN13: 9780670038718)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Thursday Next #5
Characters:	Thursday Next
Setting:	United Kingdom BookWorld

First Among Sequels (Thursday Next #5) Hardcover | Pages: 363 pages

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Title	:	First Among Sequels (Thursday Next #5)
Author	:	Jasper Fforde
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 363 pages
Published	:	July 24th 2007 by Viking Adult
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Mystery. Humor. Writing. Books About Books. Science Fiction

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It's been fourteen years since Thursday pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a difficult sixteen year old. However, Thursday's got bigger problems. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Reichenbach Falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. And before this can be corrected, Miss Marple dies suddenly in a car accident, bringing her series to a close as well. When Thursday receives a death threat clearly intended for her written self, she realizes what's going on: there is a serial killer on the loose in the Bookworld. And that's not all--The Goliath Corporation is trying to deregulate book travel. Naturally, Thursday must travel to the outer limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to triumph against increasing odds.

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Jasper Fforde reminds me of a Douglas Adams who came from a happier home. (I have no idea what Adams' home life was like, but for the sake of analogy, humour me.) His humour is less biting, but just as madcap, his characters are kinder, and easier to like, but the surreality is, I think, just as strong, and listen to this nice bit of language on pianos: "Composed of 550lbs of iron, wood, strings, and felt, the 88-key instrument is capable of the most subtle of melodies, yet stored up in the

This book is #5 in the Thursday Next series. Read the other books first! Not a stand-alone.Thursday Next is retired from Special Ops. Now 52, married with three children: Friday, Tuesday, and Jenny, Thursday Next is working for Acme Carpets.Except she's really not. Unknown to her darling husband, Thursday has not really given up her dangerous job of keeping the fictional world in order. Blessed with the rare ability to travel in and out of books, Thursday and the other agents of Jurisfiction

Another great thinker from Thursday Next!

I love this series so much. Ive shamefully waited almost three year to read the fifth book, but luckily I wasnt disappointed. Fourteen years have passed since the end of the 4th book and Thursday has adjusted to her life as a wife and mother, though she may not have given up her work as a literary detective quite as completely as she led her husband to believe. Thursday Next, a literary detective, lives with her husband and kids, Friday, Tuesday and Jenny. I am constantly astounded by Ffordes

Maybe it's because I haven't seen Thursday Next in a long time, but I really enjoyed this book!I loved the scenes with her family - seeing son Friday as a grunty teenager whose only interest is playing guitar for his garage band, The Gobshites. (His parents are worried because he's slated to save the world 756 times, but is already three years behind schedule on his ChronoGuard career.) The scene about Thursday's daughter Jenny almost made me cry.The plot is intricate and hard to follow, but if

2.5*Incredibly enough, reality TV has just got worse. Is that possible? I asked. Wasnt Celebrity Trainee Pathologist the pits? I thought for a moment. Actually, Whose Life Support Do We Switch Off ? was worse. Or maybe Sell Your Granny. Wow, the choice these days makes it all so tricky to decide.Bowden laughed. Ill agree that Granny lowered the bar for distasteful programme makers everywhere, but RTA-TV, never one to shirk from a challenge, have devised Samaritan Kidney Swap. Ten renal failure

One of the endorsements on the back of this book reads, Brainier silliness is hard to find, and I think that's the best encapsulation of Jasper Fforde I've yet to find. He really is the smart person's beach read, or some other such epithet. This book made me think, though, that really really original artists can sometimes suffer for their singularity. I remember thinking this about Tom Robbins years ago, and it happens with visual artists and musicians too, I'd say. What I mean is that when