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Daniella T
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Have you heard of Jasper Fforde?
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Most importantly, has he heard about us?
Jasper Fforde is the author of a series of alternate reality/fantasy/choke-full of quirkiness books starring literary detective Thursday Next, and the Last Dragonslayer books. The Thursday Next books, by the way, are absolutely brilliant.
Now, what's interesting is that one of his characters is called Emperor Zhark. Still, as all the characters like Zhark are based on existing books, maybe there was indeed a sci-fi series with an "Emperor Zhark", I don't know.
But how do you explain the fact that the most recent book in the Last Dragonslayer series is called "The eye of Zoltar"?
Mr. Fforde, are you lurking around the Gatch fandom?
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03-05-2014 12:52
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lborgia88
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RE: Have you heard of Jasper Fforde?
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| quote: | Originally posted by Daniella T
Most importantly, has he heard about us?
Jasper Fforde is the author of a series of alternate reality/fantasy/choke-full of quirkiness books starring literary detective Thursday Next, and the Last Dragonslayer books. The Thursday Next books, by the way, are absolutely brilliant.
Now, what's interesting is that one of his characters is called Emperor Zhark. Still, as all the characters like Zhark are based on existing books, maybe there was indeed a sci-fi series with an "Emperor Zhark", I don't know.
But how do you explain the fact that the most recent book in the Last Dragonslayer series is called "The eye of Zoltar"?
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Great catch!
I concur that his Thursday Next books are brilliant (at least through "Something Rotten" -I think they get a little weaker after that) and also his Nursery Crime series, and "Shades of Grey" (wish he'd write a sequel already!).
I haven't read his Dragonslayer books though... I agree, it might well not be a coincidence about the use of "Zhark" and "Zoltar." It seems that he did invent the character (and books featuring him) of Emperor Zhark himself...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_books
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04-05-2014 16:40
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lborgia88
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Yes, I highly recommend the Nursery Crimes books, and Shades of Grey. I've both read them and listened to the audiobook versions.
I think Fforde is a master plotter -the way he can lay out multiple intricate plot threads and then bring them all together, seamlessly, at the end impresses the hell out of me (I think "Something Rotten" in his Thursday Next series is one of the best I've ever seen for that).
And I get big kick out of his sense of humor and all the literary in-jokes (though I'm sure there are plenty in the Thursday Next series that go right over my head -I haven't read all the Brit-Lit by any means).
Shades of Grey blew me away over the sheer imagination of the bizarre -and funny!- dystopia that he creates there.
I think his weakness, though, is getting too wrapped up in world-building, and in-jokes, at the expense of good plot -the problem with the Thursday Next books that come after Something Rotten, I think.
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