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It’s Been … Unexpected: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde

Mar 15, 2011himselfReviewsEyre Affair, Jasper Fforde

Is it police procedural? Is it alternate history? Is it zany surrealist fantasy? Is it literary fanwank? Is it some variety of steampunk? Is it time-travel weirdness? Is it tongue-in-cheek tall-tale? No. Or, well, yes, but not exclusively yes to any of these. It is The Eyre Affair, the first novel of the “Thursday Next”…

Douglas Adams Meets Pixar: Divine Misfortune, by A. Lee Martinez

Apr 7, 2010himselfReviewsA. Lee Martinez, Divine Misfortune

Beware! There may be spoilers ahead. My first thought when I picked up A. Lee Martinez‘s latest novel, Divine Misfortune, was “Somebody’s been reading The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.” In a nutshell: Phil and Teri can’t get a break. Everyone around them seems to get ahead, regardless of personal merit, entirely on the…