{"id":770,"date":"2004-10-19T15:57:47","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T15:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=770"},"modified":"2012-04-24T15:58:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:58:41","slug":"lost-in-a-good-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"Lost in a Good Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Lost in a Good Book<\/em> by Jasper Fforde<\/h3>\n<p>Eight out of 10 people who showed up for this discussion       managed to lose themselves in this book of British       nonsense, and 6 of them found their way to the end. Four       had read Fforde before.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second book in the Thursday Next series. Four       have been published so far and a fifth is due out the       summer of 2005. The first book, <em>The Eyre Affair<\/em>,       which we read last year, is a stand-alone book. This second       book, however, is part of a continuing series in which       Literary Detective Thursday tries to retrieve<!--more--> her husband       after the evil Goliath Corporation eradicated him from       time.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us liked this book better than the first one       because it had more plot. Those of us who had read the       first book were used to the overwhelming number of elements       Fforde crams into his world (time travel, alternate       history, puns on names, Suckers and Biters, dodos, and       romps through literature), and were happy to revisit them,       but at the same time relieved he hadn&#8217;t added more. Two of       our favorite spots in this book were Kafka&#8217;s <em>The       Trial<\/em> and Poe&#8217;s &#8220;The Raven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We found a good balance of satire and silliness in this       book and would recommend it to fans of British whimsy.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Sandy Kayser<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde Eight out of 10 people who showed up for this discussion managed to lose themselves in this book of British nonsense, and 6 of them found their way to the end. Four had read Fforde before. This is the second book in the Thursday Next series. Four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":772,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}