Tuesday, May 7, 2013

The Woman Who Died a Lot; Jasper Fforde; 2012

The winner of this week's bad editing award goes to the following exchange between Thursday Next and her husband, Landen.
"What was I supposed to say?" replied Landen. "... did you get into Image Ink this morning?"

"I forgot again."

"Me, too.  Twice.  Hang on," I added.
Or, if we want to be generous, maybe it was just a clever use of the mindworm.

There are two completely independent plots running through this book, one of which is resolved by the introduction of an entirely new character a few pages from the conclusion of that storyline.  It doesn't work.  

There are still some good parts in the seventh Thursday Next novel, but I don't think I'll be reading the eighth.

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