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	Lost in a Good Book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lost in a Good Book is the second book by Jasper Fforde and the sequel to the adventures of literary detective Thursday Next in The Eyre Affair.
		Published in 2002, Lost uses a variety of literary allusions and places Thursday at the centre of a government conspiracy.
		The Goliath Corporation, a Big Brother-like agency that de facto rules England, lost one of their key employees in Poe's The Raven, thanks to Thursday in The Eyre Affair, and resorts to persuading a ChronoGuard agent named Lavoisier to eradicate Thursday's husband Landen from the time line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lost_In_A_Good_Book (892 words)

	Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde, 0340733578, Lowest Book Price Finder
		Lost in a Good Book has a more episodic feel than The Eyre Affair, especially at the end, but the writing has improved - this book flows and hangs together in a way that its forerunner didn't quite manage all the time.
		LOST IN A GOOD BOOK may be a painful rite of passage for a linear thinker.
		The title of the book refers to the ability of certain trained adepts to physically enter book plots in real time, much as Mary Poppins and her young charges were able to pop in and out of chalk pavement pictures in the film MARY POPPINS.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/0340733578 (2470 words)

	Lost in a Good Book Book at Shop Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lost in a Good Book by: Jasper Fforde
		Yet in "Lost in a Good Book" it seems as if her problems with the Hades family and the Goliath corporation are just starting.
		Although the books can be easily understood as a stand-alone effort, you will probably be more thrilled by The Well of Lost Plots if you sneak up on it by reading the other two books first.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0340733578/2 (1733 words)

	Blather.net: Shitegeist: Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
		Blather.net: Shitegeist: Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
		This is not because the book in question has an unpleasant subject matter, or because the dialogue is stilted or becaue the charecters are two dimensional.
		Lost In A Good Book (deep breath) concerns the ongoing adventures of the SpecOps detective Thursday Next (no, that’s her name) who, fresh from planet saving adventutres in the previous Fforde novel The Eyre Affair (reffering to Jane Eyre), has now become a bit of a celebrity.
	www.blather.net /shitegeist/2003/08/lost_in_a_good.htm (871 words)

	Japer Fforde Lost In a Good Book Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		'Lost in a Good Book' starts as Thursday Next, the literary detective from 'The Eyre Affair', tries to cope with her growing fame and a new marriage.
		The one problem that readers will have with this book is that they will be constantly tempted to read parts aloud to those in their general vicinity.
		'Lost in a Good Book' also has a rather nicely done romantic aspect that is perhaps the greatest balancing act since Rob and Laura Petrie set the dinner table.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/fforde-lost_in_a_good_book.htm (721 words)

	Legal Village: Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lost in a Good Book takes this initial, very humourous, premise and stretches it - with Thursday Next now married to Landen Parke-Laine, having defeated her nemesis Acheron Hades in the first book, and trapping Goliath Corporation's Jack Schitt in a copy of The Raven.
		The first novel was much the same and traded on the confusion it created, here the confusion feels a bit more loose, with Fforde diving off on half a dozen sub-plots, with a lack of true continuity absent for the majority of the read.
		There ARE moments of subtle genius in the book: the coincidence-warning entroposcope; the out-of-book Miss Havisham; the mammoth migration.
	www.legalvillage.co.uk /books.html (433 words)

	Reviews \| Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
		The sequel, Lost in a Good Book, is an even richer romp through this strange world, replete with pet dodos, Neanderthal transit drivers and a travel tube through the center of the earth that connects London with Sydney.
		Lost in a Good Book opens with Thursday a reluctant celebrity, thanks to her actions in Fforde's previous novel.
		Fforde employs his time-travel paradigms to give Lost in a Good Book an ending that is as satisfying as it is unexpected.
	www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/lostinagoodbook.html (1046 words)

	Mark's Book List - 2005
		This was the first book I reviewed when I started writing these annual book lists in 1998; my sense of symmetry is begging for it to also be the last one, but it’s fighting my compulsion to write.
		A good example is when a woman stopped by, bringing her young child.
		Jones was able to overcome this in her later books, but here the whole conflict is so vague that I didn’t care about who won or lost.
	www.rdrop.com /users/half/Personal/Hobbies/Books/Booklist2005.html (5148 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jasper Fforde sets about endearing himself to readers even before he begins the second in his series of Thursday Next novels, "Lost in a Good Book." His dedication reads, "This book is dedicated to assistants everywhere.
		In Fforde's first book, "The Eyre Affair," she rescued the eponymous Jane from the clutches of the arch-villain Acheron Hades.
		"Lost in a Good Book" takes a bit longer to lift off than "The Eyre Affair" did, and the first few chapters feel cluttered with too much of the time-travel brain teasers and light satire that are the book's least original charms.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2003/03/13/fforde/index_np.html (957 words)

	Lost in a Good Book Book at Shop Ireland
		Reading the first in the series first (something I wish I had done!) helps in understanding the subtle jokes and references this book is packed with but despite its delicious surrealism, "Lost in a Good Book" is still totally enthralling for any Fforde newcomer.
		This is the strongest of the three books so far and could hold its own out of a series but, strangely enough for a mid-series book, it is not just background and filler, it's an epic in its own right!
		Thursday Next is our protagonist and is able to read her way into books, yes that’s right, actually INTO the story itself.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0340733578/3 (1138 words)

	Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
		Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde
		Lost in a Good Book continues the tale of Thursday Next, a Literary Detective who saved the day (or at least made Jane Eyre what it is today) in The Eyre Affair.
		It's still 1985, and Thursday is adjusting to married life, trying to teach her pet dodo, Pickwick, to stand on one leg, and trying to avoid some of the publicity stunts the Special Operations Network expect her to partake in.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/popgb/ffordej2.htm (704 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Well of Lost Plots: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As in Lost in a Good Book and The Eyre Affair, this new novel is as much about itself and the whole world of books as it is about its putative plot.
		At the end of "Lost in a good book" we left Thursday pregnant, with a husband eradicated at the age of two, and followed by the Goliath Corporation (who wanted her skills to jump into books).
		As a consequence, she decided to "get lost in a good book", more specifically in a B novel in the Well of Lost Plots, in order to get some deserved rest.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0143034359 (1472 words)

	The View from the Foothills: Getting Lost In A Good Book
		If you ask me to describe what it's like to be lost in a book, I might well say that while lost in a book I forget that I'm reading a book--but while forgetting is involved, it's not the book that's forgotten by myself.
		While lost in a book I am in a blissful state of unselfconsciousness.
		The book's contents is dramatically present, and I am so fully engaged with it that I vanish and all that remains is the story.
	foothills.wjduquette.com /archives/000937.html (788 words)

	Jasper Fforde: Lost in a Good Book
		In Lost in a Good Book, he happily provides more detail, while still leaving enough mystery about the mechanisms to be intriguing.
		It is tempting to compare the Thursday Next books by Fforde to the Dirk Gently novels by the late Douglas Adams, but the humorous base of the two series is very different, even in the face of superficial similarities.
		Lost in a Good Book continues the strange story Fforde began in his debut novel in a manner which is sure to garner him more fans, and make those who have already been lucky enough to discover this author clamor for more.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/lost.html (610 words)

	THE ROMANCE READER reviews: Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
		I wondered, though, if his second book have the same impact or if it would fall prey to the dreaded sophomore slump.
		I’m relieved to report that Lost in a Good Book is a strong effort that has me firmly hooked on the series.
		Lost isn’t quite as impressive as its predecessor but it made me chuckle out loud almost every page, and it forced my unsuspecting family members to hear so many clever quotes that their eyes glazed over.
	www.theromancereader.com /fforde-lost.html (945 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
		ReadingGroupGuides.com - Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
		Thursday's hopes for a quiet life with her new husband, Landen, are dashed when a seemingly impossible string of coincidences involving a falling car, a disgruntled Neanderthal, and a mysterious young woman leads to some extremely close brushes with death.
		Thursday discovers that the sudden materialization of Shakespeare's long-lost play Cardenio, which she had been investigating for SpecOps 27, was indeed too good to be true—it has evidently been stolen from the Great Library by a rogue character from the book world.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/lost_good_book1.asp (923 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Lost In a Good Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thursday is a particularly effective and realistic first-person narrator; even the romantic scenes in the book are portrayed in a way that suits her slightly hard-boiled, independent character.
		Lost in a Good Book abounds with even more literary references than The Eyre Affair, and developing characters outside of their original authors' plot lines is something Fforde clearly relishes.
		Lost in a Good Book is, simply, a good book that will appeal to readers of these and other genres.
	www.bookpage.com /0304bp/fiction/lost_in_good_book.html (360 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Well of Lost Plots
		The books are set in an alternate history, where for example the Crimean War has continued to the 1980s (the books are set in 1985 or so), and Wales is a Socialist Republic.
		In the second book she learned of the Bookworld, an organization of fictional characters, and in order to escape the evil plans of Goliath Corporation, she took an assignment in the Bookworld, under the direction of Miss Havisham (from Dickens' Great Expectations).
		The first two books were mostly set in the "real world", and one way in which Fforde keeps this third book fresh is that it is set almost entirely in the "bookworld".
	www.sfsite.com /05a/wl175.htm (689 words)

	Mark Bernstein: Lost In A Good Book
		Fforde's heroine, Thursday Next, is an operative in a secret British agency that patrols reality (and happens to inhabit a reality where the dodo is a popular housepet and revived wooly mammoths are a protected species and a hazard to suburban gardeners).
		In this world, it is sometimes possible for people to jump into books and interact with their characters when off-duty.
		The books, it turns out, have their own police force which protects the integrity of literature from outside agents, form such vermin as the notorious adjectivore, as well as from bored characters who try to slip into adjacent novels.
	markbernstein.org /Jan0601/LostInAGoodBook.html (148 words)

	ALL ABOUT ROMANCE (novels) reviews Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
		Which is exactly what Thursday did in her debut The Eyre Affair; therefore, when Lost in a Good Book opens she's on the tail end of a publicity tour about her time in Jane Eyre and the new happier ending.
		While a reader can start with Lost in a Good Book, to fully understand what's going on it helps to have read The Eyre Affair because so much of what is going on is set up there and explained.
		Since the book is written from the first person point of view, it is a good thing that Thursday is a likable character.
	www.likesbooks.com /cgi-bin/bookReview.pl?BookReviewId=4856 (862 words)

	Lost in a Good Book: A Thursday Next Novel -- book review
		Somebody is trying to kill her by the use of a string of deadly coincidences.
		It’s interesting to see Havisham interacting with Pip and Estella as part of the book; when the sceneswitches to a new chapter and away from her, she becomes even more animated.
		In the first book, I reveled in the scenes like the Rocky Horror Picture Show-style rendition of "Richard III." Those sorts of details are missing in this one (though the beginning, when Thursday goes on the talk show, is a complete scream).
	www.curledup.com /lostina.htm (901 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS by Jasper Fforde
		Part of the fun of this busily plotted, shamelessly exciting and grandly absurd series is following Thursday as she jumps from one book to another, and Fforde has grown bolder in his choices with each novel.
		Early in THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS Thursday meets "an untidy man wearing a hat named Wyatt." But "Wyatt is my name," he explains to her, "not the hat's".
		In the BookWorld, as in the book itself, characters are nothing more than the words that describe them; they are bound securely to the page.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0143034359.asp (542 words)

	Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots
		That is the plot for this book, but running alongside it is the series storyline, wherein Thursday's husband, Landen Park-Laine, still doesn't exist, having been eradicated by the ChronoGuard at the behest of the megacorporation, Goliath, to force Thursday to divulge the secrets of the Book World.
		You know the problem: the first book sets up everything, the last book resolves everything, but the middle book (or books) has to keep things going between the first and the third, and as such ends up feeling intercallary in nature.
		By book's end, I found myself once again anxious for the next Thursday Next novel to continue the overarching story of Thursday's battle with Goliath and the ChronoGuard, not to mention her adventures in the Book World and her endeavor to reactualize her nonexistent husband before their child is born.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_fforde_lostplots.html (838 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel - Jasper Fforde - Hardcover - Bargain
		Bargain books are new but may have slight markings from the publisher and/or stickers showing their discounted price.
		But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the fl market, and lousy books—like the one she has taken up residence in—are scrapped for salvage.
		Jasper's ability to beg, borrow, and steal from all literature genres keeps the book moving smoothly and provides funny tidbits for aficionados of classic literature (and not-so-classic literature in some cases).
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ISBN=0641675496&userid=WM0BF9xCgH&r=1&cds2Pid=9481 (2134 words)

	Alibris: Lost in a Good Book: A Thursday Next Novel - Jasper Fforde
		But when the love of her life is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must bite the bullet and moonlight as a Prose...
		Lost in a Good Book (U.P. by Fforde, Jasper
		Hardcover-0670031909 [FFORDE, JASPER] LOST IN A GOOD BOOK.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/qwork/7941614 (432 words)

	Lost in a Good Book, by Jasper Fforde - A Large Print Reviews' Book Review
		Lost in a Good Book, the sequel of The Eyre Affair, takes place in the England of the 1980's, but not our 1980's.
		Then, after reading Lost in a Good Book, be sure to have The Well of Lost Plots, the third book in this series, on hand, as you will want to immediately read the next volume in this series so that you can see what Thursday will be up to next.
		Lost in a Good Book can be purchased directly from Ulverscroft, the parent company of ISIS Large Print.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /next2.html (787 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Lost in a Good Book
		The resulting world conjured is at once recognizable and absurd, an accustomed yet surreal pastiche of the past, the present and the future seen as a fiction through fictions, and expressed within the probable, the possible and utterly implausible.
		Lost in a Good Book only in part refers to Thursday's rather singular ability to transpose herself into text, as usual for Fforde representing a play upon words that contextually carries more than a singular meaning.
		However, not unexpectedly, both the past and the future are to intrude upon her tranquility, nor is she able, despite many efforts, to entirely escape her celebrity.
	www.sfsite.com /10a/lg137.htm (1223 words)

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