Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
Happy New Year!First Among Sequels (2007) is the latest in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. It is hopefully not the last.
In this installment, Next is living a double triple life, working for the Book World, for the book crime division of Swindon’s crime enforcement body, and working as one of the owners of a semi-successful carpet company. At the same time she is trying to motivate her teenage son to stay on track to be one of the key people saving Swindon (and the rest of the world) from upcoming total destruction. Next is a busy person.
This novel is fun to read with many literary allusions, as in all of the Thursday Next series novels, but First Among Sequels is more dependent of the structure of the world Fforde has built in the series than previous Next novels are. Even bearing that in mind, this is a good novel to read on its own or to read after reading the proceeding installments.
Labels: Fforde, fiction, literature
posted by reader kay at
8:53 AM
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I haven't read this yet because I'm thinking I should go back and reread the earlier ones. I've forgotten so many of the details. Hmm. Did you feel enough backstory was covered?
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tanabata, at
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