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The Fourth Bear
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The Gingerbreadman, psychopath, sadist, genius, and killer, is on the loose. But it isn't Jack Spratt's case. He and Mary Mary have been demoted to Missing Persons following Jack's poor judgment involving the poisoning of Mr. Bun the baker. Missing Persons looks like a boring assignment until a chance encounter leads them into the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta "Goldy" Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Mole.
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- By Gary on 08-31-06
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Lost in a Good Book
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 974
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Intrepid literary detective Thursday Next is back in the second installment of Jasper Fforde's one-of-a-kind series. The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with Jasper Fforde’s magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Stick with it the second half it better
- By Steph on 05-16-13
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Something Rotten
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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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best one yet!
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Deftly blending such genres as mystery, science fiction, and classic literature, Jasper Fforde’s gleefully irreverent New York Times best-selling Thursday Next novels defy categorization. In this sixth installment, the threat of all-out Genre war looms over BookWorld. But with the real Thursday Next retired in the real world, the Council of Genres has no other choice than to tap the fictional Thursday to save the day. Her mission as emissary is to prevent the brewing war—but her task is made more difficult by a hidden foe manipulating events.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not really a Thursday Next book
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After two rollicking adventures through Western literature, resourceful literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books—like the one she has taken up residence in—are scrapped for salvage.
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In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection.
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six stars
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Jasper Fforde's delightfully zany Thursday Next series shows no signs of slowing down with its seventh entry, The Woman Who Died a Lot. Despite being semihappily semi-retired from SpecOps, Thursday accepts the head librarian position at the Swindon library. But soon threats from a supreme Deity, a mnemonomorph, and the nefarious Goliath corporation press Thursday back into active duty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great continuation of the Thursday Next series
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First Among Sequels
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It's been 14 years since Thursday pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a difficult 16-year-old. However, Thursday's got bigger problems. Sherlock Holmes is killed, and his series is stopped in its tracks. And before this can be corrected, Miss Marple dies suddenly in a car accident, bringing her series to a close as well. When Thursday receives a death threat clearly intended for her written self, she realizes what's going on: there is a serial killer on the loose in the Bookworld.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Most fun series ever!
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Reticence
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gorgeous ending
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"No killing Goblins." So reads the sign outside of the Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours. It’s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a dragon. She doesn’t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die.
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3 out of 5 stars
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amazing writing but....
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Grave Importance
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Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in the hills above Marseille, equipped with the very latest in therapeutic innovations both magical and medical. To Dr. Greta Helsing, London's de facto mummy specialist, it sounds like paradise. But when Greta is invited to spend four months there as the interim clinical director, it isn't long before she finds herself faced with a medical mystery that will take all her diagnostic skill to solve.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not quite as good as the first two books
- By Uriel Dana on 10-04-19
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Hope for the Best
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 965
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 912
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Max is no stranger to taking matters into her own hands. Especially when she's had A Brilliant Idea. Yes, it will mean breaking a few rules, but - as Max always says - they're not her rules. Seconded to the Time Police to join in the hunt for the renegade Clive Ronan, Max is a long way from St Mary's. But life in the future does have its plus points - although not for long. A problem with the Time Map reveals chaos in the 16th century and the wrong Tudor queen on the throne. History has gone rogue, there's a St Mary's team right in the firing line and Max must step up.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Max sets in motion a plan to capture Ronin
- By Richard S. Swol on 05-01-19
Publisher's Summary
Although she's an orphan in indentured servitude, 16-year-old Jennifer Strange is pretty good at her job of managing the unpredictable crew at Kazam Mystical Arts Management. She already solved the Dragon Problem, avoided mass destruction by Quarkbeast, and helped save magic in the Ununited Kingdoms. Yet even Jennifer may be defeated when the long-absent Mighty Shandar makes an astonishing appearance and commands her to find the Eye of Zoltar - proclaiming that if she fails, he will eliminate the only two dragons left on earth.
How can a teenage non-magician outdo the greatest sorcerer the world has ever known? But failure is unacceptable, so Jennifer must set off for the mysterious Cadir Idris in the deadly Cambrian Empire - a destination with a fatality index of 50 percent.
With the odds against them, will Jennifer and her traveling companions ever return to the Kingdom of Snodd?
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- D. Hile
- 01-17-15
Good Fforde
I started this book fearing the third book in the series may have gone a bit soft (as some of the late Thursday Next books seem stretching). It seemed like some rapidly repeated schtick but that ended up being the reestablishment of the continued story line. The book then quickly shifted to good fresh Fforde story telling. Always inventive and fun with plenty for the mind to chew on. Narration is as good as previous Dragon Slayers. Good use of accents and voices.
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- Audrey
- 09-01-15
Jasper Fforde never disappoints me
I am utterly entertained and always sad when the book is done. His wit is priceless and he keeps me chuckling as I drive to and from work. I am sure it is concerning to those driving on the roads with me.
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- Jeremy Lynn Hagman
- 04-07-15
Great!
This whole series is brilliant. Funny and witty and great for re hearing again and again.
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- Diana
- 01-27-15
Another fun Jasper Fforde book
This is another fun book in the Chronicles of Kazam series, full of strange characters, unexpected twists and enjoyable silliness.
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- Finn
- 01-15-15
Love this series
I hope there are many many many many more to come. I am addicted to the happenings of Jennifer Strange!
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- Laura Medley
- 05-01-17
Just gets better and better
Ah Jasper, you are as funny and witty as you are steeped in eloquent writing and wordplay. I love your characters, and your plots and I also love your narrator. The performances are unrivaled.
This is book three and it's not at all the last we will hear of Jenny, the dragons, Kazam and the new found friends we find along this part of the story's journey. It's a fun frolic that you won't want to miss a minute of.
if you like smart English humor and fantasy adventures along the lines of Terry Pratchett , then don't wait another minute and download this book now! I just hate waiting for the next book in the series!
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- Rachel
- 07-23-16
Good for family
I listened to this with my husband and our two sons eight and 13 years old. As with the first two books in the series, we all enjoyed it. Can't wait for the 4th book!
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- happydisabledmom
- 04-12-16
wonderfully made story love the characters
the narrator's female voices could get a little grating
but hey who am I to criticize?
I can't do all those voices myself !
just that I had to go in the other room because the princess and once magnificent boo's high voices were bugging my husband and son.
I was enjoying the story too much to care.
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- James Kankula
- 02-01-15
Another Ffordian Treat
I always enjoy Jasper Fford's silly stories. My only complaint about this is that the narrator's voice sounded too old for the character she was reading. She would have been better suited for the voice of Tuesday Next.
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- Mark
- 11-11-19
I find myself laughing out loud on occasion
I enjoyed this. I am a big "enjoyer" of puns (just so you know, bad puns are how eye-roll...lol).
It was entertaining and I will definitely listen to it again!