Something Rotten is Jasper Fforde's fourth Thursday Next book.After living in fiction for her safety and the safety of her son, Thursday moves back to Swindon. A few things have changed in the time she was gone. The fictional Yorrick Kaine has been elected Chancellor of England. This administration has started a campaign against Denmark.
Why Denmark and not the Socialist Republic of Wales? I can't tell you without giving away a secret. But Thursday has many different problems to solve in this novel!
The following is an example of what makes Jasper Fforde so enjoyable to read:
Danish Car a "Deathtrap," Claims Kainian Minister
Robert Edsel, the Kainian minister of road safety, hit out at Danish car manufacturer Volvo yesterday, claiming the boxy and unsightly vehicle previously considered one of the safest cars on the market to be the complete reverse - a death trap for anyone stupid enough to buy one. "The Volvo fared very poorly in the rocket-propelled grenade test," claimed Mr. Edsel in a press release yesterday, "and owners and their children risk permanent spinal injury when dropped in the car from heights as low as sixty feet." Mr. Edsel continued to pour scorn on the pride of the Danish motoring industry by revealing that the Volvo's air filters offered "scant protection" against pyroclastic flows, poisonous fumes and other forms of common volcanic phenomena. "I would very much recommend that anyone thinking of buying this poor Danish product should think again, said Mr. Edsel. When the Danish foreign minister pointed out that Volvos were, in fact, Swedish, Mr. Edsel accused the Danes of once again attempting to blame their neighbors for their own manufacturing weaknesses.
Fforde, Jasper. (2004). Something Rotten. New York: Penguin.
Fantasy / Alternate Reality. Literary Detective. Mystery.
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