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Fourteen years after Thursday Next pegged out at Superhoop '88, her Jurisfiction job has been downgraded due to a potential conflict of interest, since her previous adventures are now themselves in print. Thursday's time is spent worrying about her teenage son Friday and tutoring new recruits. This being fiction, however, jeopardy is never far away. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Rheinbach falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. Before this can be righted, Miss Marple dies in a narratively inexplicable car accident, bringing her series also to a close. Thursday, receiving a death-threat clearly intended for her written self, realises what is going on - there is a serial killer is loose in the Bookworld. Meanwhile, Goliath have perfected a 22-seater Prose Portal Luxury Coach, and plan on taking literary tourists on a holiday to the works of Jane Austen. Thursday alone realises the true intent of Goliath's unwanted incursions into fiction, but she can't fight all these battles on her own. She must team up with the one person she really can't get along with - the written Thursday Next, currently starring in The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco. But it's no time to be picky.
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Fourteen years after Thursday Next pegged out at Superhoop '88, her Jurisfiction job has been downgraded due to a potential conflict of interest, since her previous adventures are now themselves in print. Thursday's time is spent worrying about her teenage son Friday and tutoring new recruits. This being fiction, however, jeopardy is never far away. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Rheinbach falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. Before this can be righted, Miss Marple dies in a narratively inexplicable car accident, bringing her series also to a close. Thursday, receiving a death-threat clearly intended for her written self, realises what is going on - there is a serial killer is loose in the Bookworld. Meanwhile, Goliath have perfected a 22-seater Prose Portal Luxury Coach, and plan on taking literary tourists on a holiday to the works of Jane Austen. Thursday alone realises the true intent of Goliath's unwanted incursions into fiction, but she can't fight all these battles on her own. She must team up with the one person she really can't get along with - the written Thursday Next, currently starring in The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco. But it's no time to be picky.
Utgivelsesår 2008
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780340839843
EAN 9780340839843
Språk Engelsk
Utgave 1
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I denne boka har handlingen blitt lagt til 2002, 14 år etter at bok nummer fire i serien sluttet. Thursday har blitt 52 år og lever et tilsynelatende rolig liv med ektemannen Landon deres tre barn og dodoen Pickwick, som for anledningen er fjærløs etter et noe ublidt møte med naboens katt.
Mye er forandret i Swindon og England siden sist vi møtte Thursday Next. Folk leser stadig mindre bøker og tv-titting og dataspill tar mer og mer av folks oppmersomhet. Realityprogrammer, det ene mer smakløst enn det andre er det som ser ut til å fenge nå for tiden og Spec-ops er lagt ned. Men det stopper ikke Thursday Next. I skjul av en gulv- og teppebutikk, som blir finansiert av ulovlig salg av ost smuglet inn fra den Sosialistiske Republikken Wales, arbeider hun og noen få andre fremdeles som litterære detektiver. I tillegg reiser hun tilbake til bokverdenen for å gjøre en sårt tiltrengt innsats i Jurisfiction. Der må hun denne gangen hanskes med opp til flere litterære utgaver av seg selv, fra bøkene om henne, som er blitt utgitt om de foregående sakene hun har jobbet med.
Bokverdenen preges naturlig nok også av at menneskene i den virkelige verdenen leser stadig mindre. Og som et desperat tiltak, prøver noen å gjøre Austens "Pride and Predjudice" om til et utstemmings realityprogram. Kan Thursday redde den gamle klassikeren fra å bli ødelagt?
Selv om jeg elsker denne serien, syns jeg denne boka var svakest så langt. Handlingen, særlig første halvdel ble veldig omstendelig med mye forklaring av de ulike funksjonene i bokverdenen uten at det var noe særlig handling. Noe over halvveis tok det seg kraftig opp og alt i alt vil jeg allikevel si at dette var en lesverdig bok og jeg gleder meg til den neste.
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