Which drive (or rather reader) has not dreamed of telling Edward Rochester in the pages of "Jane Eyre" or cross William Wordsworth in a field of daffodils? Jasper Fforde gives us all that and more - a little Woody Allen, a little Monty Python, a bit of "Back to the Future" and "Dr.Who" etc. He certainly has a wild imagination with puns galore, characters who call Jack or Schitt Paige Turner, a "mad scientist" completely wacky, wicked worthy of a James Bond movie. . And if you laugh at first, the mixture eventually becomes indigestible and it does not interest too. The author takes pleasure in writing; but in fact is that there was a plot that takes place?