Review - The Well Of Lost Plots
Jan. 8th, 2009 12:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wilderthanThis is the third book of Jasper Fforde's series. It's a pretty absorbing series, actually: by this point the world-building is getting quite complex, and the ideas are interesting in all of the books. Some of the ways this book experiments with forms (simultaneous storytelling in footnotes and on the page, for example) were fun, too.
I keep saying the writing in these books isn't so good, and I still think there's a little something missing, but they are very absorbing. The characters are still a little flat, but the ideas are still worth reading for. They don't actually get boring because each book has a slightly different focus -- in the first book, it was more about being a sort of literary detective in the real world, in the second book there was more monkeying about with time, in this book there was a whole new world to explore as a literary cop inside fiction.
Definitely worth a try if you don't mind the author, in the words of Kingsley Amis, "buggering about with the reader". It's definitely a sort of experimental text rather than a traditional novel -- but in a fun way.
I keep saying the writing in these books isn't so good, and I still think there's a little something missing, but they are very absorbing. The characters are still a little flat, but the ideas are still worth reading for. They don't actually get boring because each book has a slightly different focus -- in the first book, it was more about being a sort of literary detective in the real world, in the second book there was more monkeying about with time, in this book there was a whole new world to explore as a literary cop inside fiction.
Definitely worth a try if you don't mind the author, in the words of Kingsley Amis, "buggering about with the reader". It's definitely a sort of experimental text rather than a traditional novel -- but in a fun way.
