Some of you may have guessed that I spend a lot of my time on my arse with the rest of me busy doing complicated things with models. While I'm doing that I like to listen to audiobooks.
I'm coming to the end of the currently available audiobooks for the series I've been listening to recently - Jasper Fforde's
Thursday Next books - and I'm curious to hear some recommendations if you have them.
In the meantime I'm going to talk about books and series I've listened to and what I made of them. I may do this in replies to my own topic just so as to actually get the accursed thing posted.
I'll start of with the series I've just mentioned - Thursday Next.
Currently the series consists of the following titles:
- The Eyre Affair
- Lost in a Good Book
- The Well of Lost Plots
- Something Rotten
- First Among Sequels
- One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
- The Woman Who Died a Lot
It's set in a world that bears both strong similarities to our own and some rather odd differences too. It's not steampunk but there are Zeppelins (but no jet liners), croquet seems to have the popularity of football/soccer, and classic literature is bizarrely popular.
The first book, The Eyre Affair, is, frankly, rather miserable for much of it. I'm not sure why but compared to the others it felt bleak and depressing despite its whimsy. The later books seem to avoid this which I was frankly glad of. I enjoyed
Fatherland but it didn't exactly leave me cheerful after a hard day's work and the atmosphere of The Eyre Affair some how had a lot in common with it.
After that we find ourselves on a wild and imaginative journey through the world of books (practically a whole other dimension with all sorts of odd quirks and amusing technologies). That's what I've been enjoying lately.
There's a whole army of
Mrs. Danvers clones:
Certain places contain The Mispeling Vyrus and gas masks with dictionary filters must be worn to go near it...
Hopefully you get the idea. It's rather fun.