The Eyre Affair (edit title)

• Rated 5 stars

“What a wonderful idea! Slipping into books, interacting with the characters from your favorite books. I'd move into Hogwarts :P
But Thursday Next is pretty cool heroine and the alternate timeline is interesting.”

• Rated 5 stars

“9/10 stars.”

• Rated 1 stars

“Jane Eyre is one of my all-time favorites, I was able to follow all of the references and I still did NOT enjoy this book?! Humor was too corny, plot too thin, I found myself skimming a lot...which is never a good sign.”

• Rated 3 stars

“
so far this is a very good book, it jumps around alot in time and it is a very odd book, but i really like it. im looking forward to finishing it and reading the next two books in the series. ”

• Rated 4 stars

“Inconsistent, and included some side stories that weren't terribly relevant to the main plot, but an intriguing premise, quite funny, and left me wanting to read some of the others in the series. ”

• Rated 5 stars

“This is just a really fun book!”

• Rated 4 stars

“I found this book amusing, charming, and enchanting. It was fun to get lost in a world where gangs profit from forgeries of Milton rather than cocaine, there are arguments over who wrote Shakespeare's plays, and one can actually physically enter the world of the book. I really enjoyed this, and look forward to the next in a series. (no pun intended)”

• Rated 4 stars

“Most unusual book I have ever read. I am not sure how much I truly enjoyed the book, probably because I didn't know about many of the references that were being made, but I liked reading it. If not for any other reason than just to be amazed at the author's imagination!”

• Rated 4 stars

“The Eyre Affair is a witty, whimsical, slightly daft, inventive and very entertaining read. This is the first novel in a series of five featuring the "literary detective," Thursday Next. While certainly not a prerequisite, it would help the reader's enjoyment to have a good reading background in British literature of the 19th Century; particularly the poetry of Wordsworth, Charles Dickens' novel Martin Chuzzlewit, and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. In my opinion, Jasper Fforde has written an engaging novel that is actually quite thought provoking. It has alternative history and interesting perspectives on the value and meaning that society places on literature. While I don't know that I will read any of the subsequent Thursday Next novels, I do recommend this fun book to fans of Jane Eyre and the Victorian Era. This is just good escapism and is guaranteed to make you smile more often than not.”