What about Susan Duerdan’s performance did you like? then, once you just go with the concept of all things crossing over and through books, you will begin to wonder how far the ideas can go. The amount of crossed genres at first is confusing. oh yeah, once you've gone through the first book over and over until you pick up all the plot shifts, you WILL be moving on to the next book and so on. Then the clever use of alternate histories of real events, again the listener will have to review the actual history (as we know it) to get the parody and paralels. The way FForde removes classic charactors and uses them in different contexts will make you go back to the originals to see if you could pick up these personality traits. If you like audio books and reading, this book will have your reading more and more. Read more about it at you could sum up The Eyre Affair in three words, what would they be?

Next up in the Thursday Next series: Lost in a Good Book. Suspenseful and outlandish, absorbing and fun, The Eyre Affair is a caper unlike any other and an introduction to the imagination of a most distinctive writer and his singular fictional universe. Can Thursday save Jane Eyre and Bronte's masterpiece? And what of the Crimean War? Will it ever end? And what about those annoying black holes that pop up now and again, sucking things into time-space voids. It's tricky business, all these interlopers running about Thornfield, and deceptions run rampant as their paths cross with Jane, Rochester, and Miss Fairfax.

With the help of her uncle Mycroft's Prose Portal, Thursday enters the novel to rescue Jane Eyre from this heinous act of literary homicide. She's the Special Operative's renowned literary detective, and she drives a Porsche. Hades' real target is the beloved Jane Eyre, and it's not long before he plucks her from the pages of Bronte's novel. Amidst all this, Acheron Hades, Third Most Wanted Man In the World, steals the original manuscript of Martin Chuzzlewit and kills a minor character, who then disappears from every volume of the novel ever printed! But that's just a prelude. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton and a very confusing situation for the police. Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously.

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde