Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Ffordeis a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and has begun two more independent series, The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 January 1961
eggs white machines
We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.
greed cash matter
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
kitchen looks nine
Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
people
Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
war causes excuse
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
children mind adults
Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
corporations goliath furnishings
The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.
pigs people house
How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
mad political-correctness call-me
Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
eggs officers
I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
sibling self personality
This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle.
order dancing good-man
In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.
book magic kind
Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.
confused thinking albums
There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.