Everything is connected

[chani]

When I read The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde I really enjoyed it and got all bouncy when I found out he created a character who was a vampire-slayer, whose last name was Stoker (of course!) and whose nickname was...SPIKE!!!

Said Spike is a SpecOps, SO 17 (Hostile 17 anyone?) and in Lost In a Good Book that I've been reading lately we learnt he wrote a POEM for a girl named Cindy!

Too many coincidences...Don't tell me that Jasper Fforde didn't watch Buffy!

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[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

I have read that it took him five years to write and it was published in 2001. His background was film so I don't doubt that he watched Buffy and wrote it into the book as it progressed, though he must have started writing it about a year or two before Buffy started. The whole book is about literary forgery, plagerism, manuscript theft, and the abuse of literary figures isn't it? So the idea that he lifted so much from Jane Eyre and other literature (including TV such as Buffy) is all a part of the fun. I have heard that he even has a Richard III scene reminiscent of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I've been wanting to read it, but no one in my little corner of the world has ever sold the book. How many "Thursday Next" novels has he written now? The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book are the only two or is there another? I read somewhere that he was writing on his fifth book and it was going to be another Thursday Next novel. I guess I will have to break down and buy them on the Net.

Fforde designed a network of Web sites, including thursdaynext.com (http://www.thursdaynext.com/index2.html) and jasperfforde.com (http://www.jasperfforde.com/index2.html), to give readers a greater glimpse into Thursday's world as well as a personal connection with Fforde.

Fforde has said, "When I was a kid I always enjoyed watching those 'making of' movies. I loved seeing those and all the tinkering that goes behind the scenes. And I thought if I could do something like that for my book, just give little hints here and there, then it might be rather fun. ... It's a direct connection with the author."

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to buy the third one, "The Well of the Lost Plots" on Amazone.com, because I wnat to read it in English. I guess I missed many puns depite the good translation I've got.

Yeah the audience goes to see Richard III and behaves in The Rocky Horror Picture Show way, screaming lines before the actors on stage, throwing rice etc.