I have a new author to worship - get chick lit meets serious dead old dudes. I've read the first few pages of Jasper Fforde's "
The Eyre Affair". In Fforde's world, Britain is politically separated -- no United Kingdom, just the Republics/Kingdoms of Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales. Literature is the cool thing to do -- it's pop culture, and has cult status. You tour dead famous authors' houses like we would the White House. People buy knockoff first editions of famous prose on the street, then complain when they find out it's fake. There's a special police corps especially to police literature. Time is fluid. This is a COOL world!
If you liked J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter schoolbooks, you'll find the turn of phrase and wit refreshingly familiar. For the literary fanatic, you'll get all the inside jokes. For the literarily unversed, get a crash course in Great Works.
# posted by flybynight @ 9:08 PM
