Friday, December 19th, 2003
book
I haven’t read The Eyre Affair: A Novel but it looks interesting. It’s a fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, alternate history.
Imagine this. Great Britain in 1985 is close to being a police state. The Crimean War has dragged on for more than 130 years and Wales is self-governing. The only recognizable thing about this England is her citizens’ enduring love of literature. And the Third Most Wanted criminal, Acheron Hades, is stealing characters from England’s cherished literary heritage and holding them for ransom.
Bibliophiles will be enchanted, but not surprised, to learn that stealing a character from a book only changes that one book, but Hades has escalated his thievery. He has begun attacking the original manuscripts, thus changing all copies in print and enraging the reading public. That’s why Special Operations Network has a Literary Division, and it is why one of its operatives, Thursday Next, is on the case.
By laura @ 1:51 pm in Books
December 19th, 2003 at 4:13 pm
Sounds cool!
December 23rd, 2004 at 2:48 am
[...] tuck with the reviews of books I read before I got “the game” (so addicted). The Eyre Affair It took me a while to finish because I kept getting interrupted by the weird pacing. [...]