3-25-08 The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde - Fiction

5 - I picked this up on many recommendations from my coworkers at the bookstore. If you like Kim Harrison or any other alt-reality fantasy, I bet you'll enjoy this. The first book in the Thursday Next series, the reader is introduced to Thursday, a LiteraTech agent who is sucked into working with another Special Ops division. The Eyre Affair is set in Britain in a 1985 that never existed. Dodos are pets, Wales is a separate country with heavily guarded borders, and England is basically run by a corporation called Goliath. It is a mystery with numerous literary references and entertaining characters. Any book that has a performance of Richard III done in "Rocky Horror Picture Show" style and a character named Jack Schitt is just the kind of weird for me.