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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 8081493" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>I think <em><s>Thursday Next</s></em> <em>The Eyre Affair</em> was his first; he might have softened or refined his technique later...but to be honest, he deals with absurdity by adding more and more. "Thursday Next" is the series, and protagonist. There's just a high degree of ridiculousness to deal with. I was actually just thinking that he doesn't really deal in fantasy worlds, or our world with secret oddities - he deals with outright alternate worlds, where England is a subsidiary of Manchester Chocolates & Upholstery Inc, thanks to an unusually good year in upholstery in 1953 and a really bad bet on the Prime Minister's part involving a chicken, two dice, and the contents of a 14thC. soup tureen that had been unearthed in the car park.</p><p></p><p>Just to give a fictitious example.</p><p></p><p><em>Shades of Grey</em> is really good and less absurd, but part one of a trilogy that hasn't seen a part two in a decade plus.</p><p></p><p>Maybe the two Nursery Crime Division books?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 8081493, member: 70"] I think[S] [/S][I][S]Thursday Next[/S][/I] [I]The Eyre Affair[/I] was his first; he might have softened or refined his technique later...but to be honest, he deals with absurdity by adding more and more. "Thursday Next" is the series, and protagonist. There's just a high degree of ridiculousness to deal with. I was actually just thinking that he doesn't really deal in fantasy worlds, or our world with secret oddities - he deals with outright alternate worlds, where England is a subsidiary of Manchester Chocolates & Upholstery Inc, thanks to an unusually good year in upholstery in 1953 and a really bad bet on the Prime Minister's part involving a chicken, two dice, and the contents of a 14thC. soup tureen that had been unearthed in the car park. Just to give a fictitious example. [I]Shades of Grey[/I] is really good and less absurd, but part one of a trilogy that hasn't seen a part two in a decade plus. Maybe the two Nursery Crime Division books? [/QUOTE]
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