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Review title: Uncalculated Crassness
Product review: Jasper Fforde set out to be a genre buster; he intended to show that a book that is undeniably genre fiction could also be intelligent. He litters the book with high minded literary references, Charles Dickens for example. While most of the references probably go over his reader's heads anyway, what they look like to someone who notices them is an attempt to look smart, nothing else. There is little purpose to his references.He also likes to use crass, and unnecessary puns like the character named "Jack Schitt" or "Thursday Next" the main character in the series. Obvious puns like this hurt his overall cause to make genre fiction intelligent and viable. He would have been better off leaving the crassness out of the final draft.Overall, it's a fairly quick, but irritating read by an author who is dying for you to think he's smarter than you. Enjoy.
