And Thursday, aware that “without entry to books I would never see Landen again,” goes bravely off into bookdom-abetted and hindered here and there by her hardboiled partner Bowden Cable, her time-traveling dad, and post-centenarian “Gran” (condemned to live until she has read “the ten most boring classics”). Her new husband, writer Landen Parke-Laine, has been “deleted” (perhaps by Goliath bigwigs revenging themselves on Thursday for imprisoning their op Jack Schitt in the text of Poe’s “The Raven”). As “Baconians” wreak havoc defending their favorite’s authorship of Shakespeare’s plays and Richard III draws Rocky Horror Picture Show–like participatory audiences, Thursday, a veteran of the never-ending Crimean War, finds herself enmeshed in numerous baffling intrigues. We’re back in Fforde’s Alternate Wales, 1985, when previously endangered species (e.g., dodos, woolly mammoths) thrive, the vast and sinister Goliath Corporation fulfills every imaginable need, and literature has replaced pop culture as the people’s chosen opiate. Here, his lissome literary detective once again prowls the mean streets and elusive texts of classic English literature. A lively, pun-packed sequel to the Welsh novelist’s debut, The Eyre Affair (2002).
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