[Dragaera] Jasper Fforde

[Kenneth Gorelick]

On Aug 8, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Ken Koester wrote:

> J C wrote:
>
>> I highly recommend Fforde's books.  I remarked to my wife that they
>> were "of Brustian quality" which made her jaw drop.
>>
> I wouldn't go nearly that far, though I agree they make pleasant  
> reads.
> The conceit of imagining that literary works, characters, plots, etc,
> are real and interact with the real world is interesting enough  
> (cf. Tom
> Holt for other treatments of this basic idea) & you can have a lot of
> fun with it, but I don't find myself as compelled by them.
>
> Snarkhunter
>
>

See Robert Heinlein for a discussion of fictons.