Money had never been a problem in the Book World. All the details of life were taken care of by something called Narrative Assumption. A reader would… - Jasper Fforde

Tyrants are all the same—shocking temper when they don’t get their own way!

"We're fine, Joff. You?"
"Not that good, Thurs. The Church of the Global Standard Deity has undergone a split."
"No!" I said with his much surprise and concern in my voice as I could muster.
"I'm afraid so. The new Global Standard Clockwise Deity have broken away due to unresolvable differences over the direction in which the collection plate is passed round."
"Another split? That's the third this week!"
"Fourth," replied Joffy dourly, "and it's only Tuesday. The Standardized pro-Baptist conjoined Methodarian-Lutherian sisters of something-or-other split into two subgroups yesterday. Soon," he added grimly, "there won't be enough ministers to man the splits."

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction—and ultimately, without a major resolution.