The other advance copy book in my hands is One of Our Thursdays is Missing, by Jasper Fforde. It's a corker. I keep laughing out loud, reading bits to D. Fforde is a prankster, I suspect there are real rules governing the reality of his novels, but I am also sure that if a rule gets in the way of a good bit of wordplay, he'll make up a new rule to cover it. Not like he'll ever let you know what the rules are. Or maybe it's just that he's Welsh (or is he?), and fucking with us. If so, good on him.
Any other Jasper Fforde readers out there?
How about Robert Anton Wilson?
Or hear that they think they've dated the Voynich Manuscript to the early 1400s?
Got any grapes?
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Son of the chief cashier of the Bank of England in the late 60s, Jasper Fforde isn't Welsh afaik, but lives in Wales
Ah. That explains the discrepancy. Thank you.
Thanks for the Voynich link!
Dale,
I should have realized you would be particularly interested.
Is he any relation to Katie Fforde who writes the chick lit?
Perhaps I shouldn't let that stand in my way :)
yes I've got a Fforde lurking upstairs but I cant remember the title and I'm too tired to crawl up there...
I read a Fforde based on Jane Eyre ages ago and enjoyed all the references.
RtheS,
Not to my knowledge, but what do I know, I thought he was Welsh.
Rosie,
Oh, don't bother going to look.
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That one has a cover, in the US anyway, that looks like a romance novel. A surgeon saw me with it, and tried to tease me for reading fluff. I made him read the blurb, and he backpedaled quickly. Fford is not fluff. Bizarre and pointless, but not fluff.
I have two or three JF books in my house but haven't cracked them open yet.
Perhaps I should.
Second time today I've encountered the word "fnord". Not sure I can grasp exactly what it means... but then, is that actually the meaning? o_O
Phil,
I would think you to be the ideal Fford reader.
Pacian,
Fnord is a Robert Anton Wilson thing. "Illuminatus" mostly. I really can't explain.
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