Something rotten (50 page)

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Authors: Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde adventure in 2005.

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“Oh, how I wish my worthless body would melt into a liquid and then evaporate.”

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“Or that God had not decreed suicide a complete no-no.”

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“Oh God, oh God! How tired, stale and boring life seems to me.”

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“Oh, damn and double blast! I feel like a garden that’s been left to seed and has been overtaken by all those really annoying weeds, like Japanese knotweed or nettles, both of which can be destroyed by using a recommended herbicide, available from Jekyll Garden Centres.”
Footnoterphone Simultaneous Translation sponsored by Jekyll Garden Centres.

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Chapter 1. - A Cretan Mino taurin Nebraska

Chapter 2. - No Place Like Home

Chapter 3. - Evade the Question Time

Chapter 4. - A Town Like Swindon

Chapter 5. - Ham (let) and Cheese

Chapter 6. - Spec Ops

Chapter 7. - The Literary Detectives

Chapter 8. - Time Waits for No Man

Chapter 9. - Eradications Anonymous

Chapter 10. - Mrs. Tiggy-winkle

Chapter 11. - The Greatness of St. Zvlkx

Chapter 12. - Spike and Cindy

Chapter 14. - The Goliath Apologarium

Chapter 15. - Meeting the CEO

Chapter 16. - That Evening

Chapter 17. - Emperor Zhark

Chapter 18. - Emperor Zhark Again

Chapter 19. - Cloned Will Hunting

Chapter 20. - ChimerasandNeanderthals

Chapter 21. - Victory on the Victory

Chapter 22. - Roger Kapok

Chapter 23. - Granny Next

Chapter 24. - Home Again

Chapter 25. - Practical Difficulties Regarding Uneradications

Chapter 26. - Breakfast with Mycroft

Chapter 27. - Weird Shit on the M4

Chapter 28. - Dauntsey Services

Chapter 29. - The Cat Formerly Known as Cheshire

Chapter 30. - Neanderthal Nation

Chapter 31. - Planning Meeting

Chapter 32. - Area 21: The Elan

Chapter 33. - Shgakespeafe

Chapter 34. - St. Zvlkx and Cindy

Chapter 35. - What Thursday Did Next

Chapter 36. - Kaine v. Next

Chapter 37. - Before the Match

Chapter 38. - WCL SuperHoop-88

Chapter 39. - Sudden Death

Chapter 40. - Second First Person

Chapter 41. - Death Becomes Her

Chapter 42. - Explanations

Chapter 43. - Recovery

Chapter 44. - Final Curtain

Credits

Teaser chapter

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