Just Finished Reading- The Eyre Affair

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I thought it was great. Just about everything I love to read about was in this book. SciFi (time travel), Fantasy (vampires, werewolves), Literature (Jane Eyre, Martin Chuzzlewit), funny names (Braxton Hicks, Paige Turner, etc). It was the kind of book where I said to people, "Are you going to read it? No? Well then let me read you this passage" and then I end up reading 10 different passages to them.

My favorite character was Acheron Hades. He was so deliciously evil without coming off hokey. He loved doing bad things and he loved how evil he was. I thought this quote was great: “Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers.” I’m thinking about getting “Kindness is for Losers” printed on a shirt now.

Overall: A really fun read.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The series gets wierder, funnier, and punnier too...Reading them did remind me of a sci-fi novel I read as a kid though. One whole section of the book involved the crew of the ship travelling to various worlds, each of which was from a different work of fiction. Anyone know what the book was? Must have been fairly mainstream to have been in my parent's book collection.

― winterland, Monday, 23 February 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast"? I read that decades ago. All I remember is that it involved multiple alternate realities.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you Chris, just checked amazon and it is...might have to re-read it, especially now I've seen the jacket copy (helpfully quoted on the site):

"When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies -- and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller coaster ride of adventure and danger, ecstasy and peril."

Surely a guarantee of quality!

― winterland, Monday, 23 February 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i read 'The Eyre Affair' too. what an unmitigated load of boring, unimaginative tripe. poor puns, zero storyline, and the author managed to make me care not a single iota for his characters. overall: rubbish.

― writingstatic (writingstatic), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 22:21 (twenty-two years ago)

[sad face]

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

On the other hand, between this rave, and a Seattle Times review of the new third novel, I'll be reading them soon. Seattle Public Library, woohoo!

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I wasn't crazy about it either to be honest. I could stand the puns, and the time travelling detective thingy. And I loved her dad planting the (totally ge) banana in the past as a gift to humanity. But I didn't like the booky bits, especially Jane Eyre, it just didn't ring true. What it reminded me of was Robert Rankin.

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 22:26 (twenty-two years ago)

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