{"id":364,"date":"2008-05-15T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T21:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2008-05-16T15:01:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T20:01:45","slug":"the-eyre-affair-by-jasper-fforde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/the-eyre-affair-by-jasper-fforde\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[read 9\/15\/2007]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0670030643\/104-0553807-9763937\"><img style='float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0 0;' src='http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/416GCG1XACL._SL210_.jpg'><\/a>Mystery\/Fantasy\/SF.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/bozweb-20\/detail\/0670030643\/104-0553807-9763937\">The Eyre Affair<\/a> is the first Thursday Next novel.  Thursday is a Literary Detective (SpecOps 27).  There are some 30 SpecOps divisions (her father is\/was in the ChronoGuard &#8211; SpecOps 12).  This is a fun romp; Thursday goes after the arch-criminal Archeron Hades, after he steals the original manuscript for <em>&#8220;Martin Chuzzlewit&#8221;<\/em>.  When Hades&#8217; ransom is not paid, he then steals the <em>&#8220;Jane Eyre&#8221;<\/em> manuscript.  He uses a device (which he stole from Thursday&#8217;s uncle, Mycroft) called a Prose Portal to jump &#8220;into&#8221; the world of the book and kidnap Jane.  This is actually more of an issue than it seems, since in Fforde&#8217;s books when you change an original manuscript (say, kill a character) via the Portal, then all *copies* of that book in print are changed.  So, kill Jane Eyre, and she&#8217;ll never have been &#8220;written&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>Thursday, trailed by a security goon from the Goliath Corporation, Jack Schitt &#8212; who wants the Prose Portal for Goliath &#8212; finds Hades and chases him into the manuscript.  Lots of adventures in the (current) world and in Jane Eyre ensue as Thursday goes after Hades to rescue Jane.<\/p>\n<p>Extremely fun read; highly recommended!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[read 9\/15\/2007] Mystery\/Fantasy\/SF. The Eyre Affair is the first Thursday Next novel. Thursday is a Literary Detective (SpecOps 27). There are some 30 SpecOps divisions (her father is\/was in the ChronoGuard &#8211; SpecOps 12). This is a fun romp; Thursday goes after the arch-criminal Archeron Hades, after he steals the original manuscript for &#8220;Martin Chuzzlewit&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}