Author: Jasper Fforde

Cites

• Warwick Fridge (1)
  • IN: Lost in a Good Book (2002) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sample viewing figures for major TV networks in England, September 1985: Network Toad - The Adrian Lush Show (Wednesday) (Chat show) 16,428,316 - The Adrian Lush Show (Monday) (Chat show) 16,034,921 - Bonzo the Wonder Hound (Canine Thriller) 15,975,462 MoleTV -Name that Fruit! (Answer questions for cash prizes) 15,320, 340 - 65 Walrus Street (Soap Opera; Episode 3,352) 14, 315,902 - Dangerously Dysfunctional People Argue Live on TV (Chat show) 11,065,611 OwlVision - Will Marlowe or Kit Shakespeare? (Literary quiz shoq) 13,591,203 - One More Chance to See! (Reverse extinction show) 2,321,820 Goliath Cable Channel (1 to 32) -Whose Lie is it Anyway? (Corporate comedy quiz show) 428 - Cots to Coffins: Goliath. All You'll ever need. (Docuganda) 9 (disputed) Neanderthal Cable Network 4 - Powertool Club Live (Routers and power plants edition) 9,032 - Jackanory Gold (Jane Eyre edition) 7.219
    FROM: The Ratings War, (None), NULL, UK
• Jasper Fforde (1)
  • IN: The Well of Lost Plots (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Well of Lost Plots. To understand the Well you have to have an idea of the layout of the Great Library. The library is where all published fiction is stored so it can be read by the readers in the Outland; there are twenty-six floors, one for each letter of the alphabet. The library is constructed in the layout of a cross with the four corridors radiating from the center point. On all the walls, end after end, shelf after shelf, are books. Hundreds, thousands, millions of books. Hardbacks, paperbacks, leatherbound, everything. But the similarity of all these books to the copies we read back home is no more than the similarity a photograph has to its subject; these books are alive. Beneath the Great Library are twenty-six floors of dingy yet industrious sub-basements known as the Well of Lost Plots. This is where books are constructed, honed and polished in readiness for a place in the library above—if they make it that far. The failure rate is high. Unpublished books outnumber published by an estimated eight to one.
    FROM: The Well of Lost Plots, (2003), Novel, UK
• NULL (3)
  • IN: The Eyre Affair (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ". . . The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane Neighborly Disputes (SO-30) and going onto Literary Detectives (SO-27) and Art Crime (SO-24). Anything below SO-20 was restricted information, although it was common knowledge that the ChronoGuard was SO-12 and Antiterrorism SO-9. It is rumored that SO-1 was the department that polices the SpecOps themselves. Quite what the others do is anyone's guess. What is known is that the individual operatives themselves are mostly ex-military or ex-police and slightly unbalanced. "If you want to be a SpecOp," the saying goes, "act kinda weird . . ."
    FROM: A Short History of the Special Operations Network, (None), NULL, NULL
  • IN: The Eye of Zoltar (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I don't do refunds.
    FROM: The Mighty Shandar, (2014), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The Big Over Easy (2005) Fantasy Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the kings horses And all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again.
    FROM: Traditional, (None), NULL, NULL
• Alexander Milne, Alan (1)
  • IN: The Fourth Bear (2006) Fantasy Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Because the Forest will always be there… and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.
    FROM: The House at Pooh Corner, (1988), Book, UK

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• Jasper Fforde (1)
  • IN: The Well of Lost Plots (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Well of Lost Plots. To understand the Well you have to have an idea of the layout of the Great Library. The library is where all published fiction is stored so it can be read by the readers in the Outland; there are twenty-six floors, one for each letter of the alphabet. The library is constructed in the layout of a cross with the four corridors radiating from the center point. On all the walls, end after end, shelf after shelf, are books. Hundreds, thousands, millions of books. Hardbacks, paperbacks, leatherbound, everything. But the similarity of all these books to the copies we read back home is no more than the similarity a photograph has to its subject; these books are alive. Beneath the Great Library are twenty-six floors of dingy yet industrious sub-basements known as the Well of Lost Plots. This is where books are constructed, honed and polished in readiness for a place in the library above—if they make it that far. The failure rate is high. Unpublished books outnumber published by an estimated eight to one.
    FROM: The Well of Lost Plots, (2003), Novel, UK