nursenblack Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Woohoo! Lost In A Good Book is in the mail and on its way to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelofboox Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 Finally finished Something Rotten! I enjoyed it much more than Lost In A Good Book, I think, though can't put my finger on why. Also didn't notice the [relevance of] the title until I was about halfway through. Silly me! What are your thoughts on First Among Sequels? Should I read it sooner rather than later? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easy Reader Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 after finishing a book last night I decided to treat myself with starting a new one and I picked up "The Eyre Affair" I only read the first 4 pages and I am a little confused already please tell me it doesn't take long to get into the swing of reading it. For some reason I had decided Thursday Next was a man which didn't help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 after finishing a book last night I decided to treat myself with starting a new one and I picked up "The Eyre Affair" I only read the first 4 pages and I am a little confused already please tell me it doesn't take long to get into the swing of reading it. For some reason I had decided Thursday Next was a man which didn't help It doesn't take long, although you pretty much have to sit back and get taken for the ride initially. Thursday's reality will soon become the norm for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easy Reader Posted May 19, 2011 Share Posted May 19, 2011 Thank you - thats exactly what I wanted to hear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirley Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 I am currently reading First Among Sequels, this is the first book by Jasper Fforde that I have read didnt realise their were others in the series. Finding this book strange but very good, and actually making me laugh out loud. Maybe it just gets my sense of humour. will certainly read more by this author Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Jasper announced on his website yesterday that he's changed the title for the seventh Thursday Next book, and it will now be The Woman Who Died A Lot and will be published in September, but he will be using the title Dark Reading Matter for the eighth book instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 The Woman Who Died a Lot? Nice title. I still like Dark Reading Matter, though, so I'm glad he's still going to use it. Thanks for the heads up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 The Woman Who Died a Lot? Nice title. I still like Dark Reading Matter, though, so I'm glad he's still going to use it. Thanks for the heads up! Yes, apparently he said it is "more descriptive (and fun)" title for book seven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 Yeah, it kind of gives the plot away, doesn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Nice little Q&A in The Guardian today, although it must have been done last week at the latest as he's now changed the title of TN7 as I mentioned above! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggle not Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 I have read all his "Thursday Next" books and really enjoyed them . I recently finished "One of the Thursday's is Missing", it was good but not as good as the previous ones in this series. I am looking forward to the next book published. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 There's been a bit of chatter in Muggle's thread recently about upcoming Jasper Fforde books, and I was just searching around and found this interesting information, which Jasper Fforde himself wrote about his plans in a Reddit discussion in September 2014: I was immensely proud of 'SoG' and had high hopes for it, but initial sales were tepid, despite generous reviews, hence the lack of a sequel. It's selling better these days, so perhaps it's time to revisit them. My current schedule (printed on rubber paper, like all good schedules) is as follows: 2015: The book I'm currently writing: A Crime thriller set in a world where humans have always hibernated. John Fugue works for the Dormicide squad, and is investigated an inexplicably high incidence of 'Hibernational Narcosis', which may be linked to a dream that seems to have gone viral. After that:Possibly another standalone, something I got really 5000-words-a-day-excited about at the beginning of the year and wrote half before going back to 'Early Riser'. More details anon. After that:Last Dragonslayer 4: 'The Troll Wars' which will conclude the Dragonslayer series. Follow Jennifer, the Princess, Addie the tour guide and Once Magnificent Boo as they try to recapture the UnUnited Kingdoms from the increasingly psychotic Shandar, aided by the always psychotic Trolls, and legions of hollow men. After that:A prequel to 'Shades of Grey' that is essentially a standalone set in the Shades of Grey world, two weeks before the Something that Happened, referred to in Shades of Grey. Jane and Eddie won't be born for another seven hundred years, but there's still a lot of fun to be had. After that:Thursday Next eight: Dark Reading Matter. A direct sequel to 'The woman who died a lot'. More fun with Thursday, this time in the place where forgotten and deleted texts, thoughts and ideas end up: The Dark Reading Matter. Fun and hi-jinks with Thursday and the team. After that:Nursery Crime 3: The Last Great Tortoise Race. Jack Spratt and Mary Mary return to investigate the annual Tortoise V Hare race, the unexpected ending of which, every year, has the bookmakers in a tizzy. Is a sinister underground crime boos something to do with it? Or something. Put it this way, I'll always be writing something, so if the book you favour isn't up next, they'll be something for you to read while you're waiting! If you want to read all of the questions he answered during the discussion, you can find the whole thing here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muggle not Posted March 9, 2015 Author Share Posted March 9, 2015 (edited) Thanks kylie! Well, it certainly sounds like Fforde is keeping busy. I can understand the problem of keeping everyone satisfied when there are numerous different series in print. I hope he continues the Shades of Grey series as I really, enjoyed the book. It will be interesting to see what the Prequel brings to light although he states that it will be a standalone book? I will also definitely look into the Nursery Crimes that Chesilbeach recommended to me. Looks like I have additional reading ahead of me. Edited March 9, 2015 by muggle not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Thanks Kylie! It's great to read, but really frustrating that they haven't been written already and I could start them now!! I actually finished a book today, and I've got The Last Dragonslayer on the shelf waiting for me, so I think I'll have to start that one next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppyshake Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Jasper's schedule is punishing .. it's exhausting just reading it Thanks for the info Kylie .. very exciting to see what he's planning. It's a long time since I read Shades of Grey (such an annoying title .. in hindsight ) but I remember enjoying it. I must carry on with the Thursday Next's (I'm up to book seven now) and read the two Nursery Crimes. Can't wait to see what you make of The Last Dragonslayer Claire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesilbeach Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Jasper's schedule is punishing .. it's exhausting just reading it Punishing for us, as we have to wait so long to read them. Stop enticing us with books we can't wait to read so far ahead of us being able to get our hands on them. Can't wait to see what you make of The Last Dragonslayer Claire I read about 60 pages today, and I'm enjoying it so far, although as always with Jasper, it's a whole new vocabulary you have to learn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Thanks so much for the info, Kylie - I`m really excited that there`ll be another Nursery Crimes, and another Thursday Next to look forward to ! Oh, and his other books too ; I pre-ordered Early Riser - * I think, must check * - and that`s the first time I`ve seen any info on it. Sounds intriguing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 I'm planning to start reading One of Our Thursdays is Missing soon, but it's been a while since I last read a book from the series, so I was refreshing my memory by reading the synopses of the previous couple of books on Wikipedia, and I came across something slightly puzzling. Did everyone else know that books 5-7 in the Thursday Next series (that is, First Among Sequels, One of Our Thursdays is Missing and The Woman Who Died a Lot) are actually considered a 'new four-part Nextian series'? I only just found out. I thought they were all considered part of one long series (which I guess they still are). Is it because the book is set (as I recall) years later? Or is it just to do with the title having the word 'sequel' in it? I found this snippet in an interview on Jasper's website: '...it seems perfect to have it [the title First Among Sequels] on this, the first book in the second batch of Thursday books. Indeed. TNs one to four were essentially 'Thursday Volume one'. First Among Sequels is the first part of the next four-parter, which will continue with One of our Thursdays is Missing in 2009'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 I had no idea. I wondered whether it was a 'Trilogy in 5 parts' style joke (a la Douglas Adams), but I think that he is looking at it as two separate batches of books set in the same universe. Mmm, not entirely sure whether there is any value in his differentiating them in this way, although I can see that there is a divide of sorts between them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirandashell Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 Wait, wait, wait..... there's a Nursery Crimes Two? I've always cursed him for only writing the one when there was obvious potential for a series! I take it back, Mr Fforde! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kylie Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Wait, wait, wait..... there's a Nursery Crimes Two? I've always cursed him for only writing the one when there was obvious potential for a series! I take it back, Mr Fforde! What a happy discovery for you! If you haven't already looked it up, the second Nursery Crimes book is The Fourth Bear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirandashell Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Oh thanks! I shall definitely get that. Nursery Crimes is my favourite Fforde. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeleine Posted October 9, 2015 Share Posted October 9, 2015 I've only read The Eyre Affair so far but loved it, a sort of cross-over with my favourite book. Very clever too. I have all the Thursday books so must get round to reading the next one. If only Mr Rochester would really step out of the book! What a great idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 Mr Fforde had a web chat today on the UK Guardian Newspaper site. Here's the link. I wish I had known it was happening, although I have no idea the question I would have asked him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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