#eddie russett

[leek-inherent]

More Shades of Grey art :) This is the scene where Jane makes her pupils go very big in what Eddie describes as "really creepy".

#shades of grey #jasper fforde #my art #jane grey #eddie russett #I drew them as they are seen by each other so they are in each other’s colours #also the background is the pantone colour ‘russet brown’ because using the colours of their names is funny to me

[69ottersinatrenchcoat]

RED SIDE STORY IS OUT JSHSJAJA I NEED SLEEP BUT I WANT TO READ

WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR THIRTEEN YEARS. WHY MUST I SLEEP SHSHJJS

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#jasper fforde #red side story #shades of grey #shades of gray #the road to high saffron #toast marketing board #fforde #shades of grey: the road to high saffron #shades of grey: red side story #eddie russett #jane grey #thursday next #i wish i could say sleep is for the weak #alas i must be weak #the something that happened #shades of grey series #Chromatacia #Ishihara

[thekinglemingle]

I'm sorry, what and swans?! I've read this book so many times over the last decade and never caught this huge piece of evidence for my theory that they're all robots, but society has devolved to the point they don't know about robots any more

#shades of grey #shades of gray #jasper fforde #the road to high saffron #eddie russett

[betterthanapokeintheeye]

30 gifts for 30 days of November - Day 25

This is the twenty fifth of thirty Better Than a Poke in the Eye recommended gifts for the book lover in your life, even if that book lover is YOU!

Today’s recommendation is a pair of books: Shades of Grey and Red Side Story by Jasper Fforde.

The original Shades of Grey (not to be confused with Fifty Shades) tells of a world where some past, unspecified, event has led to most people only being able to see one shade of colour.  The social hierarchy is based on individuals ability to see colours. With Greys being the lowest because they cannot perceive colour at all.  Eddie Russett, a Red (he can see shades of red) is sent out to do a survey in East Carmine where he meets a Grey called Jane.  Soon Eddie realises that not everything he has been told is true.

Red Side Story is the long awaited (12 years +) sequel to Shades of Grey.  We can’t wait to find out what Jasper has in store for us.  In a recent talk, Jason asked Jasper about this chromatic universe and Jasper hinted there may be more boots to come.

You can purchase both books through our online bookshop or through any of our affiliate links.  

RED SIDE STORY by Jasper Fforde  R.R.P. £20 Due for release in Feb 2024

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SHADES OF GREY by Jasper Fforde - R.R.P. £9.99

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You can purchase any of Jasper Fforde’s books at our online Bookshop ! https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/jasper-fforde-books

#books #christmas gifts #yuletide gifts #love books #jasper fforde #red side story #shades of grey #fantasy #fantasy books #fiction is epic

[acapelladitty]

if you’re still doing prompts can i get an eddie being ruined? like just a babbling mess of a man

It's what he deserves, so absolutely 🥴💦

Turning the dial up on the wand another notch to increase the vibration, the result is immediate as his green eyes snap shut and a low whine hisses through his clenched teeth.

"Riddle me this," you ask him as your fingers tugging roughly at his russett hair, "what gets wetter as it vibes?"

At the open bastardisation of his riddle format and utterly crude solution, his forehead creases into a frown as his eyes peek open once more and you cut off his smartass remark by turning the wand up another two notches.

Pressed against the ultra-sensitive head of his cock as his body remained fully restrained to the headboard, the wand does its job beautifully as a strangled gasp escapes him and his body visibly tenses in position.

Refusing to relent the sensation, you keep the wand held in place until his release is spattered across his stomach and his vocalisations have been reduced to little more than indecipherable threats and pleas as overstimulation consumes him.

#edward nygma #riddler #Edward nigma #gotham rogues #batman villains #thanks love

[tisorridalamor]

While I have your attention may I show you one of my fav books of all time?

Do you like post apocalyptic dystopia? What about surreal humor? Social commentary and impeccable world building?? Then this might be the book for you! Follow Eddie Russett, a member of a cult like country where your social class is determined by what (and how much) color you can see. Taking place centuries after “The Something That Happened,” Eddie and his father travel to the outskirts of their world to a town where the Rules aren’t followed as closely as they’re is used to. Find out why the Collective banned spoons, why a well respected swatchman would have overdosed on green, how to read in barcode, and what on earth that strange Grey girl bound for Reboot could be up to...

Shades of Grey: the Road to High Saffron might start a little slow for some but if literally anything I’ve mentioned sounds interesting to you, you should REALLY check out the book at your local library! 

#also I love all of Jasper Fforde's books #Thursday Next and Nursery Crimes #and the Last Dragonslayer are all really great series #dumb talk tag #anyway I'm rereading this and I forgot how good it was #also when I first read this it was middle or high school and this was released unfortunately close to 50 Shades of Gray #So. There were some misunderstandings

[read-and-review]

"Shades of Grey" has been a uniquely difficult book to write about, mostly because I love *how* it's written so much that it's a bit like writing "nice work" and nothing else on someone's doctoral thesis. Who gave Jasper Fforde the right to have such brilliant language as "conjecture is a dish mostly served up wild" ???

Fforde's take on the inevitable dystopian future is filled with humor and is exceedingly British - which comes as a breath of fresh air after the seemingly inexhaustible onslaught of action-filled, hyper dramatic YAF novels of the last decade. Due to having only a passing familiarity with Britishisms, I did have a little trouble framing the story at first - not just the way places are named, but how people interact with each other and the general social structures - but by the time I'd generally worked it out, I was invested in the characters and plot.

The story follows Eddie Russett as the narrator and his father as they are relocated from their cushy suburban life in Jade-under-Lime to the considerably-less-posh village of East Carmine. Eddie's there to conduct a chair census, an assignment / punishment from his local government as a way to learn humility. Naturally, things are a bit upside down in East Carmine, and it's up to Eddie to do - well, absolutely nothing, as he's basically a kid, and has no real responsibility beyond his census. But Eddie does have what others find to be an annoying tendency to ask questions - a quirk that both pushes the story along and helps the reader to find focus in an unapologetically colorful world.

If I have any complaint about the story, it would be in the way ... extramarital activities are written. In fairness, the first-person perspective following Eddie, who has little to no experience in such things himself, does make it a bit forgivable, but I thought it was a bit clunky. There wasn't much nuance in the way characters expressed their sexuality, and those scenes were sudden, though thankfully brief.

Regardless, this is a series I look forward to more of. There are at least two more books following this one, but even if there weren't, Jasper Fforde is an author I will likely keep an eye out for in the future.

#jasper fforde #shades of grey #book review #books #novels #fiction #dystopian humor

[igraine-ohnefurcht]

Shades of Grey (not what you think)

I think I know my cosplay for LBM2014. Since we're not enough people for a Firefly crew (maybe next year)  I'm going as a NationalColour Employee. For everyone who doesn't know what NationalColour is: read Jasper Fforde's "Shades of Grey" (NOT Fifty Shades of Grey. It's actually less embarassing to read in German because the German title is simply "Grau").

#Lbm #lbm 2014 #Jasper Fforde #Shades of Grey #Eddie Russett #nationalcolour #cosplay

[anirayda]

Shades of Grey's ending OMG

it's so painful

Eddiiiiiiieeeee

Jaaaaanneee

(spoilers under read more)

but well at least he got a chapter title

also from now on it's gonna be deMauve and Brunswick omg I have lots of feelings I also don't know what to feel

#shades of grey #jasper fforde #books #eddie russett #jane grey #jane g-23

[ffordefans]

SoG Art by DeviantArt user akabeko

#akabeko #shades of grey #fan art #the road to high saffron #eddie russett

[ffordefans]

#rp #shades of grey #eddie russett