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Something Rotten

A Thursday Next Novel

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Something Rotten

By: Jasper Fforde
Narrated by: Emily Gray
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Jasper Fforde's time-traveling and fiction-jumping detective Thursday Next is an international hit with fans and critics. Beginning with The Eyre Affair, a Book Sense Top 76 Pick, Thursday's adventures have all cracked The New York Times best seller list.

After spending her time chasing a stray Minotaur into pulp Westerns, filling in for Joan of Arc, and raising her infant son, Friday, Thursday needs a break in the real world. But her return to Swindon is far from relaxing. Rogue fictioneer Yorrick Kaine and the evil multinational Goliath Corporation are trying to rule the world, and a deadly assassin called the Windowmaker is tracking Thursday's every move. To top it all off, her husband is still missing after being eradicated from the timestream before they met.

Fans of Douglas Adams and Monty Python won't want to miss this charming detective adventure sure to tickle the funny bone and stimulate the literary mind.

Delve into Jasper Fforde's literary universe with the other books in his Thursday Next fantasy/detective series.©2004 Jasper Fforde (P)2004 Recorded Books, LLC Classics Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Funny Witty Mystery Adventure

Critic reviews

"A brazenly witty series." (The New York Times Book Review)
"Opening one of Jasper Fforde's novels means stepping into a playful new universe....It's easy to be delighted by a writer who loves books so madly. (The New York Times)
Imaginative Storyline • Clever Literary References • Wonderful Narration • Unique Alternate Universe • Engaging Plot Twists

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This book is provided by Recorded Books not Highbridge Audio. I suspect that's why the narrator is different. Too bad - Elizabeth Sastre had it down pat!

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I haven't really spent much time with this new Jasper Fforde novel, but I am already disappointed in the new narrator.
Her voice is a bit too "fussy" for the calm Thursday Next.
Whatever were the audio people thinking?

Why did they switch to a new narrator?

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At the beginning of the story I did not think I would like it. Within minutes I was hooked. Definetly worth it.

Suprizingly funny

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Another fun installment in the Thursday Next Series. Thursday has decided it’s time to come back to the real world, she has been living in the book world for 2 years, since her husband Landen was eradicated, but as you know trouble follows our Thursday and as much as she wants Landen back there are some bad people out there that want her eradicated in every sense of the word.

I so enjoy these books it’s been too long since I picked one up and it was the best way to end my year in reading! Hamlet was hilarious in his pining for but hating Ophelia and what he thinks of all the movies and books on his “life” and the Shakespeare’s , yes many more than one since he was cloned but none of them seem to have the originals talent.

Thursday gets Landen back and then loses him again, it is all a big game played by Goliath and new baddy Kaine who may or may not be a fictional character, who seems to have it out for the Danish, and who does Thursday have living her who else but Danish Prince Hamlet.

There is, as usual many great characters in this book but most of them aren’t literary characters and I missed them, and Miss Havisham!

Emily Gray as always does a wonderful job at the narration, I love all her different voices she is very, very talented!

I read the last book in 2012 and I think it is time I finished this series, so I will be listening to the rest of these this year.

4 Stars

Another fun addition to the series

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Mentally picturing Thursday while Emily G reads her lines is incongruous. Elizabeth Sastre is the best voice actress ever. But even the best Imaginotransference AI can’t replicate Thursday starting with Emily’s voice.
To be fair, Emily is an excellent reader but projects frigidity as a voice actress.

Unfortunate narrator

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