[ SECRET POST #3546 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3546 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I couldn't care less what Fforde thinks. Frankly, his Thursday Next books aren't very good. Nursery Crime is good and Shades of Grey is one of the best books I've ever read, but Thursday Next? Meh. She doesn't come across as a believable woman.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

He ain't even that good

[sabotabby]

I just could stand her, or his "I'm so smug-and-sophisticated" middlebrow narrative style. Also the romance in the first one was so eye-rollingly bad that I had no desire to read any further, despite how many friends of mine insisted they were good. I've read better, more innovative fanfiction.

[replicantangel]

Really? Hmm. I feel the opposite. I thought Shades of Grey was only okay, although I'll probably read the next one. I really like the Thursday Next books - I would have said "love", but I do feel they've become somewhat "make it up as I go along" on his part, and that results in some internal inconsistencies that bother me. I think Thursday is fairly believable - maybe a little too badass and quick on her feet at times, but I appreciate that she ages and has real problems that she deals with as a real person would, especially when it comes to husband and kids.

I freaking adore the Nursery Crimes books though. I think they're charming.

Anyway, I do agree in regards to caring about what Fforde thinks. So his views on fanfic are ludicrous. If I had to agree with every author I read on everything, I wouldn't have any books at all. I don't understand this idea that we have to agree with authors, even regarding their own work. (I do understand not giving money to people who are morally abhorrent, but that's a different matter.)

[(Anonymous)]

Remember the scene where Thursday Next looks into a mirror and helpfully describes her appearance for the reader? I should've listened to my instincts and put the book down then. It was all just so painfully bad!

[arcadiaego]

I barely managed to finish the first one. You've read some classic literature, big whoop. (Also he fundamentally misunderstood the ending of Jane Eyre which is a bit of a flaw if your book is named after it.)