Re-discovering English Literature

I've just discovered someone I just can't understand how I could live without before. Jasper Fforde. I have only read one Thursday Next book by this funny I suppose Welsh man and I am really eager for the others.

Turning page after page and wishing the day had more hours I'd spent this last week reading anywhere (on the bus to and from work, on the bed, during breakfast time while my mates talked and talked and talked...). It was amazing because Fforde has a quality I have only found on another British author: Terry Prattchet. They both have the gift to take a part of our culture and turn it into something completely new and really amusing.

In the case of Fforde I have read The Eyre Affaire in which a literary detective, Thursday Next travels to the Jane Eyre book chasing the villain Acheron Hades and finally have the book's end changed. It's amazing how my remembrances of Jane Eyre florished in my mind while reading.