About this title: Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next fantasy adventures have become a worldwide phenomenon, spawning websites, artifacts, and fan clubs. Thursday is back, in this fourth installment of her adventures, and she's pitted against not only St. Zvlkx, who has dropped in from the Middle Ages, but the very contemporary (and very evil) Goliath Corp., which now has ambitions to turn itself into a religion and, on the side, is trying to take over Antarctica and sell penguin meat. To make matters more interesting, Hamlet arrives from Elsinore, upset about the relationship between his mother and his uncle, and ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780670033591ISBN:0670033596
Description: Acceptable. NO DUST JACKET. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 2004-08
ISBN-13:9780670033591ISBN:0670033596
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Description: Very Good. Ex-Rental. Very Good condition. Audio Cassette. Original artwork may contain stickers or shelfware. Quality guaranteed! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780670033591ISBN:0670033596
Description: Grade: B. Catalog: Mystery Crime Synopsis: 385 pages. Detective Thursday Next has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction, enough with Emperor Zhark's pointlessly dr... read more
Edition: First American Editi
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 8/5/2004
ISBN-13:9780670033591ISBN:0670033596
Description: Fine. 0670033596 May show signs of shelf wear. Choose EXPEDITED shipping, receive in 2-5 business days. Please email with questions. read more
Binding: Audiobook cassette
Publisher: Recorded Books
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781402595981ISBN:1402595980
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Tapes and case in very good condition, gently used. Ex-library set, withdrawn from collection. Unabridged, on 9 cassettes. Library stamps and stickers. 9 cassettes. Thursday Next Novels (Audio). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Audio Cassette
Publisher: Recorded Books
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781402595981ISBN:1402595980
Description: Very Good. A library copy. Usual pockets, handstamps, etc. AN AUDIO CASSETTE, NOT A CD! AUDIOBOOK, NOT A BOOK! Photos: We now have a scanner in-shop and can provide you with a picture of this item if you do not currently see one. read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780340825945ISBN:0340825944
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers creased and scuffed; moderate edge wear/ corners and spine hinge creased/ several page tips creased. read more
Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and creases. read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
""Something Rotten" is the fourth book in Jasper Fforde's entertaining and funny Thursday Next series. For two and a half years Thursday has lived in the literary world. She now heads the Jurisfiction Agency. Their goal to "safeguard the stability of the written word" in literature caused Thursday's position to be hectic, stressful, and often times dangerous. With a two year old son, Thursday decides its time to go home. She wants to continue her efforts to bring back her eradicated husband, Landen Parke-Lane and hopes to accomplished this in the Outland. With this in mind, Thursday Next and her son, Friday, head for her home town of Swindon, England.
Upon her return, Thursday is confronted with a whole new set of problems. First she must contend with Hamlet who is unhappy with the way he has been portrayed by numerous actors. He's been watching a lot of movies during his stay in the Outland and admits to being partial to Mel Gibson's portrayal. He is "involved" with Lady Emma Hamilton, a boarder (and a lush) who also lives with Thursday's mom.
Although back at home, Thursday is still acting on behalf of the Council of Genres who want her to stop the ruthless Yorrick Kaine, an escaped fictionaut, from accomplishing his plan to dominate the world. An additional complication is the deadly assassin, the Window Maker, who has been hired to take Thursday "out".
Thursday's dad, Colonel Next, pops in from time to time to give useful advice and hints about her future as he travels through time.
Thursday Next is smart, courageous, warmhearted, determined, and resourceful. These traits are needed to enable her to confront the fearsome Yorrick Kaine and his backers, the men behind the Goliath Corporation. Goliath is best known for its ruthless business practices.
There are enough puns, literary allusions, slapstick, time travel, satire and non-stop action in "Something Rotten" to entertain any dedicated Terry Pratchett fan. Fforde developed an interesting, wacky plot with cast of colorful and varied characters constantly entering and exiting. Although confusing at times, this book is consistently entertaining."
"Thursday Next, an English detective who mingles--literally--in the world of fiction, seeks to have her husband resurrected when her hands become full with her toddler son and her new companion, Prince Hamlet, and finds herself juggling Shakespeare clones and trying to save the world through a high-stakes croquet tournament. --From the library catalog
Fourth book in a very clever series. Great book with funny references to literature, politics, and other "real life" things. I really enjoy Jasper Fforde's books!
From the book jacket - Detective Thursday Next has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap-as outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon's patron saint foretells doom, and if that isn't bad enough, back in the Book World The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet. Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop this hostile takeover? Can she vanquish Kaine and prevent the world from plunging into war? And, most important, will she ever find reliable childcare? Find out in this totally original, action-packed romp, sure to be another escapist thrill for Jasper Fforde's legion of fans."
"Thursday Next has had it with the world of fiction, so she returns to the "real" world to un-eradicate her husband, Landon, and to send Yorrick Kane back to whatever book he belongs in, just NOT living in the real world as tyrant of Britain and co-conspirator of the Goliath COrporation. Shadowed by the assasin, The Window-Maker (sic), and beset by her ward from the still-clinging world of fiction -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Thursday must somehow fulill a reincarnamted 3 rd century saint's prediction and engineer a win for the Swindon Croquet team in the Super-Hoop to save the universe. Of course, of course. As always, the Literary Fantasy of Fforde is witty and cultured, a relaxing read full of all you would need for your Cambridge First. I've enjoyed this series so much, I'm sad to have reached the end: that's a great measure of how enjoyable the whole series was!!"
"The fourth Thursday Next novel brings new elements into the series, ties together many plotlines that have been going on in the previously novels, and offers a breath-taking ride that is at times creaking near the breaking point thanks to all the different story elements loaded onboard.
Jasper Fforde does not rest on his laurels, but continues to develop his series of Thursday Next novels into new and inspiring directions. This time around he introduces political satire - and does so with style. Especially the first large segment of it, set in a television talk show, is uncanningly sharp, witty, merciless, and over the top. In this bit, and some others, Fforde manages to make strong (and at times bit painful) statements of the political realities we live in, which is what political satire was invented in the first place.
Unfortunately, after the exhilarating start, the book loses some of its grip, mainly due to Fforde's usual problem of cramming just bit too much stuff into his novels. There is so much going on that at some point you notice important details, but can't just care about them anymore, as there are already so many other things to focus on.
I'll give it to Fforde that at no point things actually fall apart, but still I wouldn't have missed couple of the minor plotlines. And feel that losing them would have given more power to the most important events of the book, which are pretty big in the overall storyline of the series."
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