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 Something Rotton - Jasper Fforde
Newest Review: ... If this was not enough Hamlet has joined her as there is a coo going on in his play. With cloning Shakespeares, ... more  ... international croquet matches to win, and visits to the underworld, getting her husband back is going to be no easy matter.
As you can tell this book has quite a strange storyline and looks quite complicated. However, I was happy to find that it was actually an easy read and that all the subplots flowed quite easily. Fforde is able to layer all the different elements of the story in a way that makes them work. Therefore, although the threads themselves did not pose too much of a problem I felt the central story suffered. By ...more |
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Something Rotton - Jasper Fforde: Smells Like Eggs? (875 words)
by - written on 23/01/07 (Very useful, 84 readings)
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Have you ever played the game were you have decided what you would wish for if you were given three by a genie? After the inevitable 1000 more wishes and the one that’s unprintable on a website such as this, it leaves that final wish which differs from person to person. My wish would to be the ability to transport myself into a character in a book or film. Imagine appearing in ‘Star Wars’ or living the life of relaxation in ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’. The problem is that you could get into a book and ruin it by killing off a character or discovering the treasure too soon. If books had a life of their own outside the written page who would be there to make ... Read the complete review
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