Nope. This is straight-up false advertising. "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde just plain sucks -_-The only way I can explain all the five-star reviews is that you guys read an amazing early draft of the story years ago. Somewhere between then and now, Acheron Hades found the original manuscript for "The Eyre Affair" and jumped inside, rewriting the story to make it terrible. So, by the time I finally got around to reading "The Eyre Affair," I was stuck with this garbage.I don't want to waste a...

I absolutely loved the sheer inventiveness of Jasper Fforde's *The Eyre Affair*. The core concept is brilliant: original literary manuscripts can be stolen and altered, changing not just the original, but every single copy of, say, *Jane Eyre*. This makes these original versions priceless treasures. Fforde throws in literary portals that blur the line between the 'real world' and fiction, allowing characters to meddle with our favorite stories. Plus, there's time travel. And a wildly skewed alte...

Few authors have blended parallel universe tropes with fourth-wall-breaking elements as flawlessly as Jasper Fforde did in *The Eyre Affair*. Mix it all together The integration of living literature within a parallel universe as a plot device is brilliant and provides a potentially endless source of innuendo, connotation, and options for more novels like it. Imagine the same concept applied to video games, movies, or a combination of all three – it could explode in popularity, depending on the...

I read this years ago, probably around 2005 or so. I remember liking "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde fairly well, even though I'd never read *Jane Eyre*, and a decent chunk of the plot revolves around that story. But I also remember being irritated by the book. Something rubbed me the wrong way when I read it. Some elements of the storytelling just didn't sit right. I remember talking to the person who recommended "The Eyre Affair" to me. I held the book up and said, rather disdainfully, "Thi...

This book pretty much describes my dream job: diving into a book and hanging out with the characters, making sure they're sticking to the author's plan and not running wild thanks to some villain. Seriously, how cool would that be? "The Eyre Affair" is an awesome way to kick off this series... I devoured the first four, then started losing steam a bit, but I'll definitely revisit them someday! Any bookworm needs to give "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde a shot – you'll definitely have parts you...

Have I become a jaded reader? I sometimes catch myself muttering in the middle of a long series of yawns, “Haven’t I read this plot/character/technique before?” Or when the author describes their setting, I'll lazily flip through my mental inventory of backdrops until, sure enough, I find an old one that is a good enough fit to reuse. Then Jasper Fforde comes along and throws the literary equivalent of a bucket of Arctic cold water in my face. I found myself having to actually work to keep up ...

Comment from April 2020I feel bad about this old review. I have now enjoyed a Fforde short story, The Locked Room Mystery, which I gave 4* and reviewed HERE.Review from August 2010I really didn't enjoy this one. It tries way too hard to be clever, juggling a bunch of different genres – humor, sci-fi, horror, detective, literary fiction, you name it – while also being annoyingly silly. I gave up after about 100 pages, which I almost never do.Thursday Next is a literary detective in an alternate r...

I absolutely loved this book the first time I picked up "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde, and I remember giggling the entire way through. (My mum, of all people, passed it on to me. Normally, we don't share the same taste in books.) It has a charmingly irreverent take on... well... everything from literature to history. It's set in an alternate reality where literature is, if not king, at least very, very significant. If you're looking for unique book reviews, definitely check out "The Eyre Af...

I've been saving up some serious venom for this review, so brace yourselves. First off, I want to unleash my fury on whoever in the Rory Gilmore Book Club suggested The Eyre Affair as February's pick. To go from a brilliant read like Jane Eyre to this was frustrating, to put it mildly. It just highlighted all the amateurish contrivances in Jasper Fforde's writing. I rolled my eyes so many times in the first four chapters, I nearly gave myself a migraine. And no, I'm pretty sure it doesn't get be...

I had the same feeling after reading *The Eyre Affair* as I did after reading *The Looking Glass Wars*. Fabulous idea, terrible execution. I was going to give it one more star than I gave that, because it's not quite as badly written. And I liked the idea of door-to-door Baconians and *Rocky Horror*\-ized *Richard III*. But I changed my mind because the more I think about Jasper Fforde's *The Eyre Affair*, the more I didn't like it.\n\nIt was so smug and cutesy and in need of better editing. And...