[HPFGU-Catalogue] Re: Jasper Fforde is a naughty man

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On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 02:35:42PM -0000, dungrollin wrote:
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> Dot:
> Try Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, (Douglas Adams). You'll 
> enjoy the Electric Monk. I'm not a great fan of detective fiction 
> though, I've just got a soft spot for clever things that make me 
> laugh, so there may be more and better stuff around. 

Silly me. Of course DA predates JF. Mind you Dirk Gently is completely
confusing until you realize he's just very careful.

> Dot:
> Unfortunately I don't have WOLP with me to check the minutiae of how 
> Caversham Heights evolved into TBOE, the idea is that Caversham 
> Heights was unpublishable, and had to be rewritten isn't it? I 
> didn't realise until the end that Lola and Spongg were the 
> undeveloped characters (what were they called, generics?) lodging 
> with Thursday in the seaplane, though I dimly remembered Arnold. Re-
> reads in the offing, I think. Definitely looking forward to The 
> Fourth Bear. 

Yes I want to reread Something Rotten to sort it out in my head. Forgot about
the Generics completely.

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