‘Jurisfiction is the name given to the policing agency within books. Working with the intelligence-gathering capabilities of Text Grand Central, the Prose Resource Operatives at Jurisfiction work tirelessly to maintain the continuity of the narrative within the pages of all the books ever written, a sometimes thankless task. Jurisfiction agents live mostly on their wits as they attempt to reconcile the author’s original wishes and the reader’s expectations with a strict and largely pointless set of bureaucratic guidelines laid down by the Council of Genres.’
Jasper Fforde – First Among Sequels: Thursday Next Book 5
Fforde could have done with a Jurisfiction agent to keep him right. There are quite a few discrepancies with the previous books so far, and it’s not working in the book’s favour.
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I fear this is what’s happened here. The end of book #4 neatly tied up all the story lines, so it was probably only planned as a quartet. Fforde then was probably persuaded to write on….
But oh well. I’m only at 15%. Maybe it does get better.
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This sounds like a job for….
Da Da Dum
…Super Editor!!!!
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….the pen-wielding crusader! Yeah, that or the author giving a damn.
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Yeah, at some point it becomes painfully obvious that a writer doesn’t care about the series anymore…
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