How have I not written about this book yet? It's fricking awesome!
The Eyre Affair is the story of Thursday Next, British intelligence officer in the Literary Crimes division. In a world where airplanes were never invented, Wales is an independent nation, and Richard III is as popular as the Rocky Horror Picture Show is in our world, the investigation of literary crimes is a very big deal. She joined the police probably because her father is a cop, although he's a time traveling cop.
This book is the first in a series. I've read the first 3, and he gets even more imaginative and weird in the later books. I had looked forward to exploring more of the bizarre world revealed in the first book, but he goes further up and further in, giving you more surreal landscapes to imagine than you can handle, dashing across the literary landscape in a mad chase to save literature from the forces of evil.
A very weird book, but also very awesome.
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