Something Rotten

So here come some of the main ingredients of this part of the series of inimitable inter genre reading cocktails: Propaganda, manipulation, and warmongering in politics and trade: the satirizing of all the conspiracy theories and real-life events in this regard play a key role in the series, as it´s......more

Jasper Fforde has easily made his way into my favourite authors list. He is smart, witty, inventive, and packs his Thursday Next series full of literary references. He's basically a book lovers dream. The only terrible thing about reading one of his books is knowing it has to end. This one was defin......more

The fouth instalment of the Thursday Next series is my favourite one, the one in which all the plotlines set out earlier are woven together and political satire enters the series in a grand way. In Something Rotten, Thursday returns from the book world to late-1980s England with her two-year-old son,......more

Have you started the Thursday Next series yet? If not, put the first book The Eyre Affair on your short list. This is one of my favorite series and Something Rotten is easily the best book in the series thus far. How can a book this hilarious make me weep like a heartbroken teenager at the end? I lau......more