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Rent Something Rotten (Thursday Next Novels)
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: Aug 2005
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $22.00
Pages: 383
Synopsis
Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next fantasy adventures have become a worldwide phenomenon, spawning websites, artifacts, and fan clubs. Thursday is back, in this fourth installment of her adventures, and she's pitted against not only St. Zvlkx, who has dropped in from the Middle Ages, but the very contemporary (and very evil) Goliath Corp., which now has ambitions to turn itself into a religion and, on the side, is trying to take over Antarctica and sell penguin meat. To make matters more interesting, Hamlet arrives from Elsinore, upset about the relationship between his mother and his uncle, and hangs around awhile in the guise of Thursday's Cousin Eddie. Meanwhile, Thursday--who is officially on leave from her job in the SpecOps Jurisfiction Department--is trying to care for her toddler son, Friday, and track down her long-missing husband.
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Reviews
This entry in Jasper Fforde's series has more of Thursday's exploits as well as the literary in-jokes that can be expected. In addition to the usual action-packed yet intellectual and metaphorical ideas found in a common Thursday book, the element of time travel and inter-world travel introduced in previous installments is used with even more confusing yet exciting implications. The unpredictability of the plot but thorough enjoyability of the writing and characters make this a must read. Although this is part of the Thursday Next series, it is also possible to read it as a stand-alone novel although reading the series in order makes you appreciate more of the references towards past events.
If you liked the other Thursday Next books, you'll probably like this one too. Includes all the character and plot twists you'd expect...