Kindle SciFi Daily Deal for December 31, 2012: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde for $2.99
From the description:
"The first installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series of Thursday Next novels introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England
Fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse will love visiting Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, when time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously: it’s a bibliophile’s dream. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in literary detection. But when someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature and plucks Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday is faced with the challenge of her career."
4.1 stars on 453 reviews. 385 pages, with WhisperSync for voice.
If you're a literature nerd, this is the series for you. Fforde is a wonderful and hilarious writer, and the way he builds this alternate reality is a book nerd's dream come true. For only $2.99, it's a good deal for the first book in a series. Give it a shot.

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