Jasper Fforde is a naughty man

[carolynwhite2]

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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. 
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> Silly me. Of course DA predates JF. Mind you Dirk Gently is 
completely
> confusing until you realize he's just very careful.
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> > 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. 
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> Yes I want to reread Something Rotten to sort it out in my head. 
Forgot about
> the Generics completely.
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Carolyn:
I thought it was brilliant -wasn't sure to begin with, but he 
sustained the plot right to the end. I kicked myself for not thinking 
of Rapunzel after they found the 28ft hair (!). There's a kind of 
ruthless pathos to pregnant egg characters, don't you think? I mean, 
most women feel like exploding every month, but I like the idea of 
literally doing so as you produce your offspring. Cut out all this 
motherhood crap wouldn't it?

Let JKR take it as an example of carefully-sustained multi-book 
plotting with dead clever jokes and limitless pastiche thrown in. 
Wonder if Voldy's thought of infecting the world with veruccas..

And Sean, I assume you have never visited Reading, or indeed Swindon? 
Trust me, they are *so* lucky to get this cool series dedicated to 
them. Basically, they consist of a series of appalling roundabouts, 
with some 1960s office blocks thrown in for a laugh.