I honestly don't know how this book should be classified - I suppose it could generically be labelled as science fiction or some kind of fantasy, or possibly alternate history, but that really doesn't cover it. The best way to describe The Eyre Affair is a a sort of literary Hitchhiker's Guide, and by that I don't mean that this book is a work of literary fiction, but rather that its subject matter is, in fact, literature. So read is what I did, and it took less than ten pages for me to realise that this book was pretty much my soulmate - Soulbook? Bookmate? Is that a thing? I digress. Once I get my hands on a book, even if it's just something I randomly picked up from somebody's coffee table, I actually have to be physically restrained in order not to begin reading. And you know me - or you don't, as the case may be for many of you, so I shall elaborate. Then, the next time I saw him, he thrust the book into my hands. I thanked him for the book recommendation and went about my day, not giving it a further thought. This book was originally recommended to me by my English teacher, quite possibly after a conversation about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
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