more books I want

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I'm totally intrigued by the Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books described in Language Log.

Yes, I'm the kind of dork who finds this sort of dialogue entertaining:

"Take the first had had and that that in the book by way of example," explained Lady Cavendish. "You would have thought that that first had had had had good accasion to be seen as had, had you not? Had had had approval but had had had not; equally it is true to say that that that had had approval but that that other that that had not."

"So the problem with that other that that was that ... ?"

"That that other-other that that had had approval."

"Okay," said the Bellman, whose head was in danger of falling apart like a chocolate orange, "let me get this straight: David Copperfield, unlike Pilgrim's Progress, had had had, had had had had. Had had had had TGC's approval?"

I don't know how I haven't come across these before. Has anybody else read them?

Comments

I had had it after the first quotation

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Like the Samuel Jackson and John Travolta characters in Pulp Fiction, it is now your job to clean up the splattered remnants of my brain.

Take that that. :-P

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Mm, read one, thought it rubbish. Didn't finish it even though I was on an aeroplane with nothing else to read. All made of picaresque this-then-that plot (inasmuch as I remember the plot at all), nothingy characters, and really awful puns that weren't even funny in their awfulness, just tiresome. On the other hand, I know someone who really liked it, so eh.