Week 6- Entry B

I love Jasper Fforde's word choice. It is often absolutely silly. Here are a few words and phrases that made me smile-

Mad as a barrel of skunks.
I'm pretty flummoxed by it all.
Within ten minutes they were on the road again, the Vicar's increasingly aggressive offers of scones and tea notwithstanding.
No conspiracy is worth a button unless someone is murdered over it- preferably with clandestine overtones and just enough ambiguous facts to be tantalizing.

Oh man, Fforde knows just how to write things to make them funny. He can even turn serious situating comical. When Jack and Mary are uncovering blown up pieces of Goldilocks from a bomb area, I actually laughed. That shouldn't be funny! He also makes hidden jokes. When a man went missing after an enormous explosion, the vice president of Quangtech says, "He cost us over thirty million pounds, and all for nothing. Project Supremely Optimistic Belief was abandoned soon after." I found it pretty funny that the search project was called that.

I'm not in love with this book so far, but I do laugh sometimes while reading it. Fforde is very funny and clever. I'm glad I'm reading something uplifting this quarter after our last few depressing books.