Re: Highlander: Jane Austen

Jerri wrote:
> xgxwag...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> 
>> Have you by any chance read The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde?
> 
> Not to my knowledge. I have read books in which an author sends
> characters into the settings of others ... people are always doing
> that with Jane Austen's works, without doing it very well ... and to
> be perfectly honest, I've never read Jane Eyre. Or Wuthering Heights.
> I know I should, but "should" doesn't carry much weight with me
> anymore. I lean toward comedy and have a long history of throwing down
> books that are blurbed as "comical masterpieces" and haven't a laugh
> nor a giggle. In the past few years, I've wandered into the comic
> mystery genre ... but find mystery-solving cats and dogs to be in the
> *not* funny category ... also feisty little old ladies and clubs  of
> feisty little old ladies. On the other hand, Robert Parker pretty much
> always delivers an entertaining evening ...pretty much ...
> Jerri

I've read one of Jasper Fforde's stories, but not the ones with 
Thursday Next.  The detective in the one I read was Jack Spratt.

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Jette Goldie
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