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The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the Anti-Smote shield, needed in time to thwart an angry Deity's promise to wipe Swindon off the face of the earth; and the issue of Thursday's third child, Jenny, who doesn't exist except as a confusing and disturbing memory. With Goliath attempting to replace Thursday at every opportunity with synthetic Thursdays, and a call from the Bookworld to hunt down Pagerunners who have jumped into the Realworld, Thursday's convalescence is going to be anything but restful as the week ahead promises to be one of the Next family's oddest.… (mer)
4leschats: This book is the closest that I have read to the metafictional aspects of Fforde's work. Kotzwinkle uses a bear to underscore the absurdities within the publishing industry.
Senaste boken om Thursday Next. Den här gången håller Thursday långsamt på att återhämta sig från ett mordförsök, då hon fortfarande går med käpp och ser dubbelt på grund av sina smärtstillande plåster. Vila och återhämtning borde vara högst på hennes agenda. Men med otrevliga framtidsutsikter för hennes son Friday, hennes dotters problem att hitta konstanten som kan rädda hela Swindon från att bli uppbränd av heliga eldar samt inte minst någon okänd fiendes ovana att byta ut hennes mot syntetiska Thursdays så kommer vilan få läggas åt sidan för tillfället...
Rappt, spännande, roligt och inte minst absurt. Precis som vanligt. Svårt att inte älska, precis som vanligt. ( )
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To all the librarians that have ever been, ever will be, are now, this book is respectfully dedicated.
Inledande ord
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Everything comes to an end.
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"A drawn elephant has a desire to exist?"
"Certainly. All of existence came into being simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause. And in that split second, everything that wanted to have existence -- which is everything -- came racing through in one huge hot mass. They've been trying to sort themselves out ever since."
Budget meetings have never been interesting, ever, despite numerous attempts over the years to try to josh them up a bit. Notable uplifting techniques involved the use of fire-eaters and performing elephants, but they didn't work. The dry proceedings are well known to bring on a form of lethargy that can stay with attendees for the rest of the week, and Budget Therapy was used with great success in the treatment of patients suffering an excess of good-natured perkiness.
"Working in fiction does give one a somewhat tenuous hold on reality, but it's not the hold that's tenuous -- it's the reality: Which reality? Whose reality? Does it matter anyway? And will there be cake?"
"What a beautifully described morning!"
"Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory." Chap. 22
"And he'll hide chocolate in the back of the fridge so only he can find it -- something a truly righteous man would never do." Miles, speaking of Joffy Next, Chap. 27.
I'd also like to thank the Van Allen belts for protecting us from the harmful solar wind, and the earth for being just the right distance from the sun to be conducive to life, and for the ability of water molecules to clump so efficiently, for pretty much the same reason. Finally, I'd like to thank every single one of my forebears for surviving long enough in this hostile world to procreate. Without any one of you, this book would not have been possible. (Acknowledgments)
Avslutande ord
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We sat in silence for a while until the Skyrail car passed Aldbourne's church, and the yew tree with the warm sunny spot beneath it, and a memorial stone.
"Do you ever think of Jenny?" I asked, staring out the window.
The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday's children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday's career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday's trouble perfecting the Anti-Smote shield, needed in time to thwart an angry Deity's promise to wipe Swindon off the face of the earth; and the issue of Thursday's third child, Jenny, who doesn't exist except as a confusing and disturbing memory. With Goliath attempting to replace Thursday at every opportunity with synthetic Thursdays, and a call from the Bookworld to hunt down Pagerunners who have jumped into the Realworld, Thursday's convalescence is going to be anything but restful as the week ahead promises to be one of the Next family's oddest.
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Rappt, spännande, roligt och inte minst absurt. Precis som vanligt. Svårt att inte älska, precis som vanligt. (