Hi folks,
I'm just starting into the newest volume of the "Thursday Next" series by Jasper Fforde. I'm not too far into the story yet, but already enjoying it vastly.
The book is called "First among Sequels" and is (as usual) funny as hell.
Unfortunately there is no ebook version yet, so I'm reading it in paper
right now, but some of the Fforde books are availaible as ebooks already, so I guess this one should follow soon.
Jasper Fforde is the only author I have found so far that comes pretty close to Terry Pratchett in my personal ranking. The amount of weirdness that his books contain, the interesting stories, unexpected plot-twists and especially the huge amount of humour that he pours into all his books are just great.
The Thursday Next series is something of a "Cops-and-Robbers" story, but set in such a strange and warped reality that it is just totally different. If you don't know Jasper Fforde yet, then I'd recommend starting with the "Eyre Affair" and going through the entire series from there (the first books are all out there as ebooks I think), if you already know him, then you should be reading the newest story right now...
For some reason Jasper Fforde is not as popular as Pratchett and Douglas Adams yet, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time...and the good this is that he's still quite young and might still be writing for quite a few years...
