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	The SF Site Featured Review: The Well of Lost Plots
		Jasper Fforde's third Thursday Next novel is The Well of Lost Plots.
		The plot is in the end rather silly, and not in any sense the reason to read The Well of Lost Plots.
		The fun is all in the side bits -- the endless puns, the amusing and well developed ideas of what life in the Bookworld might be like, and running jokes like Miss Havisham's love for fast cars, and her races with Mr.
	www.sfsite.com /05a/wl175.htm (689 words)

	Plot twists, satire, birding's big prize - The Boston Globe
		She takes refuge in the Well of Lost Plots, 26 subbasements of the Great Library, where all fiction is stored.
		She is supposed to rest there, but that soon proves to be impossible, since a ''mispeling vyrus" has been released into the Well, nursery-rhyme characters are on strike, the Minotaur has escaped and is hiding out with the cattle in a Zane Grey novel, and a murderer is stalking Jurisfiction police.
		Fforde piles it on so thick that it takes quite a while to figure out the main plot, but once you get the hang of his complex worlds, you are in for quite the literary ride.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/05/02/plot_twists_satire_birdings_big_prize?mode=PF (828 words)

	The Well of Lost Plots.(Brief Article)(Children's Review)(Audiobook Review) - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thursday, as part of the Character Exchange Program, has gone to live and hide in a "routine detective thriller," an "unpublishable" book that is recommended to be "broken up for salvage at soonest available opportunity." This is the well of lost plots, not far from the offices of Jurisfiction.
		The appeal is not just the plot; it's the imaginative flair of the author for invention of detail.
		Sastre is impeccably the voice of Thursday Next, a real life heroine not afraid of derring do or of pitting her wits against the terrible Aornis.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-119738570.html (237 words)

	The Jasper Fforde Ffan Club - Bookshelf: The Well of Lost Plots
		Leaving Swindon behind her, to hide out in The Well of Lost Plots - the place where all fiction is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights.
		Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail in the real world, the safest place for her to be is inside the covers of a book.
		In no time, Thursday discovers that the Well of Lost Plots 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.
	jasperffordeffanclub.com /books/wolp.html (449 words)

	Plots \| Business solutions from AllBusiness.com
		In seeking information concerning the functional relationship between additional predictors and a response, partial residual plots are useful graphical tools for identifying the unknown function.
		Plots, shots, and liberal thoughts: conspiracy theory and the death of Ginger Goodwin (in 1918).
		Mark Leier, "Plots, Shots, and Liberal Thoughts: Conspiracy Theory and the Death of Ginger Goodwin," Labour/Le Travail, 39 (Spring 1997), 215-24.
	www.allbusiness.com /plots/3084405-1.html (771 words)

	audiobook reviews, author interviews and more.... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She landed herself in a spot of trouble while trying to save her husband from eradication in her last outing, “Lost in a Good Book,” and is now hiding from her Outlander enemies while awaiting the birth of her child.
		She vacations in the Well of Lost Plots, consisting of 26 sub-basements of the Great Library, where all fiction is stored.
		It takes quite a while to figure out the main plot, as Fforde piles it on too fast, but once you get the hang of his complex worlds, you are in for quite the literary ride.
	www.audiobookcafe.com /FtrLst.cfm?FtrCatCod=3&Code=796 (967 words)

	The continuing adventures of Thursday Next take her to The BookWorld. (washingtonpost.com)
		In the basement of this vast but orderly structure lies the Well of Lost Plots, the realm where unpublished manuscripts are polished and readied for publication.
		At the opening of The Well of Lost Plots, Thursday has gone into temporary hiding from her Outlander enemies deep inside a trashy police novel called "Caversham Heights." Through a Character Exchange Program she's pretending to be Mary Jones, a subordinate to detective Jack Spratt.
		In many ways, The Well of Lost Plots is a far more ramshackle novel than its predecessors, with a hasty finale and the convenient introduction of a deus ex machina.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A6480-2004Mar18¬Found=true (1726 words)

	Jasper Fforde on the end of narrative originality (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Plots, too, have a limited number of possibilities, and this turns out to threatens literature as we know it:
		By the tenth century story usage was so low that we still had enough new plots to last over a thousand years.
		One conclusion might be, therefore, that reusing plots is not in the least a problem.
	www.victorianweb.org /genre/fforde3.html (425 words)

	Jasper Fforde: The Well of Lost Plots
		The Well of Lost Plots is a very different novel than The Eyre Affair or Lost in a Good Book, the two previous entries in the chronicles of Thursday Next, written by Jasper Fforde.
		In The Well of Lost Plots, Thursday’s world is practically left entirely behind as Fforde builds several layers of his meta-fictional for Thursday, and the reader, to discover.
		On the surface, The Well of Lost Plots isn't quite as enjoyable as the two previous novels as sheer entertainment, however it presents a depth to the world of Thursday Next which, while not absent from those books, indicates that Fforde is attempting to write something more than mere entertainment.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/lostplots.html (505 words)

	Guy Fawkes' blog of parliamentary plots, rumours and conspiracy
		Yesterday the FT lost a High Court battle to publish the investment memorandum being circulated in the City for Northern Rock.
		The FT may have lost a High Court battle to print the Northern Rock investment memo, Gordon somewhat pathetically at PMQs claimed it was "commercially sensitive" information to get him off the hook discussing it.
		Well could it be that they get (free of charge) research results that give Gordon 92% approval ratings?
	www.order-order.com (3070 words)

	The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
		The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
		The Well of Lost Plots is the third novel in the Thursday Next-series.
		The Well of Lost Plots, like the earlier volumes, is much stronger on detail than it is as a whole, but the detail and the invention are so clever and enjoyable that it is certainly well worth reading.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/popgb/ffordej3.htm (1057 words)

	hackwriters.com - 'The Well Of Lost Plots' by Jasper Fforde - Review by Michelle Cochraine
		he Well of Lost Plots is the third in the series of a number of adventures taken on by the unforgettable Thursday Next.
		As she meets several of the vast and individual characters, you can’t help but find yourself entangled in the plot especially with the delightful Harris Tweed and the loveable Ibb and Obb who are both infuriating and helpful both at the same time.
		Fforde has done well to create a novel that can be read to all ages whether it be a bedtime story or simply an afterwork read.
	www.hackwriters.com /lostplots2.htm (578 words)

	Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots
		Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots (Hoder & Stoughton, 2003)
		The corner she went to live in was the Well of Lost Plots, the place in the Book World where books are created, later to be written by authors.
		In The Well of Lost Plots; however, those chapters and scenes are all packed in in the first half of the book and the forward-moving action — the reason for the book —; just isn't there.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_fforde_lostplots.html (838 words)

	The Well of Lost Plots (Limited Collector's Edition) Book at Shop Ireland
		The Well of Lost Plots is the third book in the Thursday Next series (the previous two being The Eyre Affair and Lost In A Good Book) and is a worthy addition to the Next universe.
		"The Well of Lost Plots" takes us too deep and any who have ever dreamed, or endeavored to dream, of creating a work of his or her own will have to accept a forlorn choice that Mr.
		Much of the time is spend on a guided tour in the well of lost plots in "Bookworld", and explanations of the Jasper Ffordes ideas on how a universe like that might work.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0340825960/3 (1370 words)

	The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next Series) - PowerBookSearch!
		In many ways, The Well of Lost Plots is a far more ramshackle novel than its predecessors, with a hasty finale and the convenient introduction of a deus ex machina.
		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.
		In no time, Thursday discovers that the Well of Lost Plots 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.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0143034359.html (3510 words)

	The Well Of Lost Plots (book 3 of Thursday Next stories) by Jasper Fforde.
		To this end, she is staying in a poorly written novel which is currently residing in the Well of Lost Plots, where all the potential books are kept until they are either published or broken down into text again.
		Staying on a derelict flying boat/houseboat is all very well but her two resident generic characters start to develop an irritating line in sarcasm and cooking and to top it all somebody is trying to kill her!
		The Well Of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /sfnews2/04_may/review0504_28.shtml (800 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Well of Lost Plots: Books: Jasper Fforde
		Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite fantasy books, and The Well of Lost Plots clearly borrows from that inventive work while adding unique elements relating to how fiction is written, read and understood.
		Well, Thursday Next has left the real world for the Well of Lost Plots (the 26 floors of subbasement beneath the Great Library where all English fiction books are shelved)) where all stories are developed and protected.
		In that role, she's soon confronted with mayhem, death and a sinister plot that threatens fiction to the core.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Well-Lost-Plots-Jasper-Fforde/dp/0340825936 (1405 words)

	Amazon.com: The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel: Books: Jasper Fforde
		Well of Lost Plots, The and over 80,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle — Amazon’s new wireless reading device.
		Start reading The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel on your Kindle in under a minute.
		Pursued by her memory-modifying nemesis Aornis Hades, Thursday joins Jurisfiction's Character Exchange Program, filling in for "Mary," sidekick to the world-weary detective hero of Caversham Heights, a hilariously awful police procedural.
	www.amazon.com /Well-Lost-Plots-Thursday-Novel/dp/0670032891 (563 words)

	Jasper Fforde : First Among Sequels : Something Rotten : Well of Lost Plots : Lost in a Good Book : Book Review
		Often, the wacky plot makes little sense, and the many characters enter and exit so often that the unprepared reader may be left with a migraine.
		The Well of Lost Plots feels less structured than his earlier books, and actually reads more like a series of short stories that are loosely connected at best.
		The plot and intrigue gain in complexity with the discovery of Cardenio, an unknown play by William Shakespeare, as the LiteraTecs try to determine whether it is real or fake and decide what will become of it.
	mostlyfiction.com /scifi/fforde.htm (2464 words)

	ReadersRead.com -- The Well of Lost Plots Excerpt
		The sequence of events was pretty much as I remembered from my first reading in the Well, although it seemed that Mary had overstated her role in some of the puzzle-solving areas.
		In no time, Thursday discovers that the Well of Lost Plots 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.
		Excerpted from The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde.
	www.readersread.com /excerpts/thewelloflostplots.htm (15477 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS by Jasper Fforde
		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".
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0670032891.asp (623 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: The Well of Lost Plots, by Jasper Fforde, Paperback, Reprint
		As a Jurisfiction agent, Thursday has recently learned that the source of that creative wealth lies in the Well of Lost Plots, where writers' imaginations interface with characters and plots and nothing is impossible.
		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.
		Here in the subterranean world of terrible plotting, pathetic characters, and stolen dreams, the idealistic Thursday realizes that the book world and its anti-matter opponents are as ruthless as the recycled protagonists sold on the fl market.............................
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780143034353&pwb=1&z=y (2042 words)

	The Well of Lost Plots — A Novel by Jason Fforde, A Review by Bobby Matherne (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is not surprising to find Thursday receiving junk calls on her footnoterphone which she has to learn to ignore, which is pretty darn hard to do when the call is happening inside your head(2).
		Plot devices are so common, only writers might even note their appearance.
		The old "do we cut the red wire or the blue wire" plot device appeared in a recent JAG episode as well as several movies involving bombs in elementary schools, Air Force One, etc. It's an old standby and the timing on them is essential to the story.
	www.doyletics.com /arj/welllost.htm (3718 words)

	THE ROMANCE READER reviews: The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
		When we last saw Thursday Next, at the end of Lost in a Good Book, she had decided to hide out inside the pages of an unpublished manuscript, deep within the Book World’s Well of Lost Plots.
		By now it is a given that any book written by Jasper Fforde is going to be very funny, and as usual I annoyed my family members by chuckling out loud and reading them excerpts from the story, even though they lose much of their impact when taken out of context.
		But the plot barely moves forward for much of the novel; it meanders here and there, but there’s no compelling reason to keep reading except to reach the next chuckle With the exception of Thursday, the characters are great joke fodder but hardly multi-dimensional.
	www.theromancereader.com /fforde-well.html (681 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Too much of a good thing in literally literary series (Site not responding. Last check: )
		To briefly recap: When last seen at the end of "Lost in a Good Book," Jasper Fforde's second entry in the Thursday Next series of literally literary alternate-reality-whodunits, our heroine had taken refuge from her enemies in the pages of an unpublished novel.
		It's almost as if Fforde is lost in his own antic imagination, and this book has become a punch-line delivery device, rather than a coherent narrative on its own.
		Here's hoping that in the next Next, Thursday will remember that the Well is a nice place to visit, but she really shouldn't live there.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2001860951_fforde20.html (631 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Well of Lost Plots at Epinions.com
		She finds lodging in a very marginal, unpublished novel in the Well, a sub-basement of the massive Great Library that is the repository, birthplace and ultimate home of all the fictional works of the English Language.
		The truth is that Thursday is battling the loss and manipulation of her own memories, starting with her sweetest recollections of her husband and her darkest moments from her tour of duty in the Crimea.
		Thursday was reasonably well fleshed in the original, but I still think she could afford to show a little evolution as the series continues.
	www.epinions.com /content_115256299140 (1134 words)

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