Something Rotten, Jasper Fforde
Something Rotten, Jasper Fforde
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Something Rotten

Author: Jasper Fforde

Narrator: Emily Gray

Unabridged: 12 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/29/2004


Synopsis

Jasper Fforde's time-traveling, book-jumping detective Thursday Next is a hit with fans and critics. Each book in this humorous and intelligent series has hit nationwide best-seller lists. Here, Thursday must save the world from Yorrick Kaine and the evil Goliath Corporation while trying to recover her lost husband from the timestream and raise their son, Friday. Emily Gray's spirited narration perfectly captures the zany humor and charm of this delightful novel. Fans of Monty Python and Douglas Adams won't want to miss this one.

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Reviews

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

Goodreads review by Lynx

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

Goodreads review by Martine

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

Goodreads review by R.S.

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