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Title	:	First Among Sequels (Thursday Next #5)
Author	:	Jasper Fforde
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 363 pages
Published	:	July 24th 2007 by Viking Adult
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Mystery. Humor. Writing. Books About Books. Science Fiction

First Among Sequels (Thursday Next #5)

Jasper Fforde

Hardcover | Pages: 363 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 23657 Users | 1591 Reviews

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It's been fourteen years since Thursday pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a difficult sixteen year old. However, Thursday's got bigger problems. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Reichenbach Falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. And before this can be corrected, Miss Marple dies suddenly in a car accident, bringing her series to a close as well. When Thursday receives a death threat clearly intended for her written self, she realizes what's going on: there is a serial killer on the loose in the Bookworld. And that's not all--The Goliath Corporation is trying to deregulate book travel. Naturally, Thursday must travel to the outer limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to triumph against increasing odds.

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Original Title:	First Among Sequels
ISBN:	0670038717 (ISBN13: 9780670038718)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Thursday Next #5
Characters:	Thursday Next
Setting:	United Kingdom BookWorld

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Probably my least favorite of the Thursday Next series so far. It seemed less coherent and more bogged down with explanation than the rest. While there were a few exciting parts near the end, I did not enjoy it as much as The Eyre Affair and others in the series.

Thursday's back, in the first installment of her second four-book series; how I'd missed her.Familiar ground is less familiar than I might have expected. It's 14 years later, SpecOps has been disbanded, and Thursday is working at a carpet company while England's love of reading (so prominent and charming in the world of the first series) has plummeted so far that bookstores no longer sell books and reality TV has resorted to titles like Samaritan Kidney Swap. It takes a couple of chapters for

Seriously, Jasper Fforde. This has gone far enough. I thought The Eyre Affair was pretty ingenious. As the series continued, the books seemed to start to fall into a hole, but as the holder of an English B.A. and M.A., I was sticking with Fforde for his clever puns, literary allusions, Shakespeare references, and other literature-related nonsense. I was particularly fond of The Well of Lost Plots, not because it was terribly good, but as a writer I appreciated the fantasy of Bookworld and how

I was curious where this series would go after the first four books, and was concerned when this book started 14 years after the last. But I stand corrected: I love the direction the book has taken. A hilarious amount of retcon, the same wonderful mix of high and low brow comedy, and plenty of new, interesting twists that will help move the series long. Delightful!

I have loved this quirky series, but in all honesty, I think this book had too many subplots and not enough plot to sustain the interest of anyone but a fan. Some great satire, though--I loved the reality TV shows made out of books.

Fourteen years have passed since the last book, and Thursday Next now has a teenage son, now works for a carpet company and has a side income smuggling cheese in from Wales. But all is not right in the world of books. reading rates are falling, Sherlock Holmes has and others have been killed, and they start to think that there is a serial killer loose in bookworld.On top of that the Goliath corporation is trying to muscle in on travel to bookworld. The carpet company is a front for the real

Jasper Fforde reminds me of a Douglas Adams who came from a happier home. (I have no idea what Adams' home life was like, but for the sake of analogy, humour me.) His humour is less biting, but just as madcap, his characters are kinder, and easier to like, but the surreality is, I think, just as strong, and listen to this nice bit of language on pianos: "Composed of 550lbs of iron, wood, strings, and felt, the 88-key instrument is capable of the most subtle of melodies, yet stored up in the