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Re: all things fforde

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:08 pm

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Sarah B

I wish I could go and look; a day in a bookshop sounds like a great idea to me! I'm just a bit of a way from London I'm afraid. Sigh.

Thanks for looking though, myf!

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:16 pm

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What if they weren't all in Foyles??

Amy did say that she visited all those different locations - maybe that's a clue as to where they are?

Just as a reminder they are:

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 3:58 pm

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Foyles

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:37 pm

myf

I went with my sister to the church from the video, and to the Dickens House Museum, but didn't find anything that looked like a clue or a wayward novel. We both went through most of the sections in Foyles, and didn't find any of the additional books.

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 4:54 pm

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Fridge · Boot Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 25 Location: London, UK.

I thought i might pop my head back in since our random exploits in Foyles this saturday.

Forgive me if im just repeating this from an earlier post but i think it hasnt yet been clearly said..

Wind in the Willows - Crime Section
Wuthering Heights - Self Help Relationships
Pride and Prejudice - Politics (Right next to a book on female political betrayal i believe)

So perhaps we should start banging heads together on the list of the 12 as to where they may have been reshelved to..

When i was in Foyles i was willing to bet my bottom dollar that Frankenstein would have been put in the electrical engineering section but alas..

Other thoughts..
Portrait of Dorian Gray - Plastic Surgery? or if were really thinking smart here.. maybe its been reshelved to somewhere most people wont see it (to mimic the portrait)
Great Expectations - Career Advice.. or Business?
Three Men in a Boat - Has to be nautically orientated i would think.. Transport.. or perhaps the thames history section..
Alice in Wonderland - Travel? or Drugs..
Gullivers Travels - Most likely travel i suppose..

Oh and with Poe's The Raven.. it wouldnt really bulk out to a book size.. perhaps were looking for the Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe? (one of my favourite books).. I would think either the psychology, or horror sections.

If no one else can i might be able to devote some more time in the future to trawling around london.. so ill keep my ears to the ground!

Oh ive also got pictures from the day of the books but theyre mostly the same stuff as Myf has got.

Shame you didnt manage to find anymore when you came back Myf! Well done for trying though, i can remember how grueling it was working through shelf after shelf.. it gets to the point where its just like reading a book when suddenly you realise you havent been reading the words.. just letting your eyes move over them..

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:37 pm

Sarah B

Well, if you're trying to find anything in the British Museum or the British Library they are absolutely huge, so you would have to have a fairly specific idea of where you were looking. It's not going to be as easy as trawling Foyles, and since it seems to me that trawling Foyles was not easy at all!

I'll keep thinking...

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:43 pm

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Fridge · Boot Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 25 Location: London, UK.

Oh and while im on the subject, and because bellymonster missed it off the list when solving the riddles..

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:47 pm

Sarah B

Just for reference, really:

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Fridge · Boot Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 25 Location: London, UK.

As i see now!

Wuthering Heights > Pride and Prejudice > Wind in the Willows > Alice in Wonderland..

Pity it doesnt look like they hint as to where the books are stored..

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:04 pm

bellymonster · Boot Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 41 Location: York, UK

Pride and Prejudice, of course! That just didn't click for me, thanks Fridge.

I have no real idea of where these books would be reshelved, but my guess for Alice would be in the Pet/Animal section, because if I were looking for Alice, the first place I would think to look would be down a rabbit hole.

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:05 pm

Sarah B

I've been thinking some more about Alice. Unfortunately, I've come up with many more places that I could reshelve her.

Mathematics (there are apparently many maths references in the book)
Logic/puzzles (a running theme in the book)

The book is nonsense, of course, and famous for it. Where do you shelve nonsense, in a bookshop? I think it'd be at home in the politics section, but I gather we already found P&P there. Wink

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:20 pm

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Sarah B

OK, I think I have a possible idea here (yes, another, I know...)

This is from one of Niebla's posts on the Fforde Fforum:
http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,87769

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:39 pm

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myf

Oh no, that's adding more books to the list!

But yes, that really does look like they are one and the same. My brain hurts - hopefully I might have some ideas about all this tomorrow.

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:45 pm

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Sarah B

To give us more evidence, everytime Niebla refers to Jasper, it is with three fs. Including the thread about winning the millionth copy signed and all that.

Sorry about the more books!

Anyway, I think we're supposed to follow in a trail-like fashion, as Fridge pointed out. So it really is Alice we need to focus on finding next.

Oh, and this is the other thread Niebla started on the fforum:
http://www.jasperfforde.com/phorum/read.php?4,87545,87545#msg-87545

I wonder if that has any relevance at all?

**Posted:** Mon Jun 25, 2007 6:49 pm

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