Any Jasper Fforde fans out there?

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I just love JF. every book I read has me thinking, -that persons name, where have I heard it before?- (Although I do think that anyone who can come up with this much gobbledegook must be slightly unhinged!)

Love them, especially Thursday Next!

Like his books muchly, just starting shades of grey. different to the Thursday Next and nursery crimes , liking it so far but only about 50 pages in so still discovering how this world works.

I read them sometimes when I am desperate but find them more irritating than clever tbh. It's a shame as I like the concept but think he comes across as overly pleased with himself in his writing style.

Shades of grey was better on the second Reading as were the Nursery Crime ones. Thursday Next I get first time

Dh saw him at Hay& said he was v good& never wants films made of his books.

Love Jasper Fforde!! Thursday Next should run for Prime Minister IMO! Not sure if I like the sound of his "shades of grey" book??

dh and ds1 love Jasper Fforde - and also saw him at Hay. I've dabbled, but wasn't hooked. I think it's the kind of thing you have to be in the mood for.

Never mind thursday next being prime minister, jasper fforde should be! He could action his 'stupidity deficit'! I'm sure he would soon sort out the country!

Agree with Janeite. I loved The Big Over Easy which was the first one I read then got completely irritated with Thursday Next and other ones I started.

He reminds me of another author who wrote Who's afraid of Beowulf and Expecting Someone Smaller etc. Bit too clever.

anyone checked out jaspers website? tons of really daft stuff, pictures of people with dodos in odd places, and adverts for hamlet school!

yup, me! ive read them all. loved them!

Okay, I have a question..
so many of JF's names etc have an alternative meaning, story behind them. Anyone got any idea about nail soup? (the big over easy)

Nail soup is a fable or something isn't it

Nail Soup

Thanks for this thread, I didn't realise he had a new book out - hurray!

Shades of grey was out last summer. I got it on holiday.There is a Thursday Next one next

That's great! Thanks!

I'm a big JF fan. I like the way that things have other meanings, like a lot of the Terry Pratchett books. And his view of Swindon makes me giggle

roisin are you going to hay this year? Dh & I are going bank hol weekend ON OUR OWN!!!

Nail soup was probably based on the folk tale Stone Soup - which is something to do with a fox and other animals making soup with, er, stones in it.......

Nail soup and stone soup are variations on the same folk tale in fact.

Interesting wikipedia article about the stone/nail soup around the world

Ha Great minds and all that! Hi Nympadora - I just sent you a message on FB about Hay.

CMOT, I love the seven wonders of swindon on his website. Always makes me chuckle! I alos love the way, that even after several readings, I can still come across something JF when reading a classic, kids book or some obscure bible tale. Only just realised that the fight between Kane and the cat is from the sorcerers aprentice!