One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
A Thursday Next Novel
-
-
4.4 • 113 Ratings
-
-
- $12.99
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the sixth novel of the renowned Thursday Next series, “geeky humor jostles with genuine insight” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) as Thursday embarks on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England.
[One of Our Thursdays Is Missing] is jam-packed with spot-on parody, puns, and wry observations about words and genres that will delight literary-minded fans.”—Los Angeles Times
Thursday Next is back! . . . Or at least one of her is.
It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. Then, a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes.
But all is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, who labors to keep her own small series from the grim specter of being remaindered. Now she must answer the call, save the BookWorld, evade capture, and find the actual Thursday! With her clockwork butler Sprockett and her Designated Love Interest Whitby Jet in tow, written Thursday reluctantly agrees to undertake an investigation for Jurisfiction—only to realize that she must journey up the mysterious Metaphoric River and visit the RealWorld to find the answers.
Don’t miss any of Jasper Fforde’s delightfully entertaining Thursday Next novels:
THE EYRE AFFAIR • LOST IN A GOOD BOOK • THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS • SOMETHING ROTTEN • FIRST AMONG SEQUELS • ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING • THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With the real Thursday Next missing, the "written" Thursday Next leaves her book to undertake an assignment for the Jurisfiction Accident Investigation Department, in Fforde's wild and wacky sixth BookWorld novel (after Thursday Next: First Among Sequels). As written Thursday Next finds herself playing roles intended for her real counterpart, BookWorld's elite try to deal with a border dispute between Racy Novel and Women's Fiction. It's not always possible to know where one is in BookWorld, which has been drastically remade, or in Fforde's book, which shares the madcap makeup of Alice in Wonderland, even borrowing Alice's dodo. Outrageous puns (e.g., a restaurant called Inn Uendo) and clever observations relating to the real book world (e.g., the inhabitants of "Vanity" island now prefer Self-Published or Collaborative) abound. Fforde's diabolical meshing of insight and humor makes a "mimefield" both frightening and funny, while the reader must traverse a volume that's a minefield of unexpected and amusing twists. 10-city author tour.
Customer Reviews
An interesting twist
Not Fforde's finest work, but a solid and interesting evolution of the Thursday Next series, setting us up for what promises to be an exciting Next (and final?) episode in The Woman Who Died a Lot.
Like fission on a paper sandwich
Mr Fford has managed to hit me hard on the creative, witty, and hysterical lobes. I am re-reading it. It is wildly entertaining.
Stellar!
Excellent continuation of the series — highly recommended!