false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187549738m/1735228.jpg 6628 21 <B>Jasper Fforde does it again with a dazzling new series starring Inspector Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crime Division</B> Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In <I>The Big Over Easy</I>, Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of the Nursery Crime Division. He's investigating the murder of ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty, found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Yes, the big egg is down, and all those brittle pieces sitting in the morgue point to foul play. 2504943 book 2005 The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, #1) total:4573|5:1099|4:1897|3:1282|2:249|1:46| 4573 17473 6054 638 6628 0143037234 9780143037231 4252 584 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604182m/6628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy 4 5 false Sun Aug 05 12:38:07 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 20 09:31:23 -0700 2007 Jasper Fforde is just so much fun. His books are sorta like beach reads for book nerds. They're playful, punny, funny, silly, and smart. Also I saw him read in a small bookstore in SoHo a couple of years ago and he is hilarious. He talked about how he and his kids play games in supermarkets where t...more...]]> 6628 0143037234 9780143037231 4252 584 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604182m/6628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy 4 2 false Sun Nov 09 20:09:21 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 21 21:15:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 676817 0670034231 9780670034239 125 26 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177039535m/676817.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/676817.The_Big_Over_Easy 4 1 false Sun May 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 08:00:47 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 08:29:04 -0700 2008
Like the Thursday Next novels, Fforde presents a world where fiction blends with reality. In the Nursery Crime novels, nursery rhyme characters are "real", and there is a division o...more...]]> 6628 0143037234 9780143037231 4252 584 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604182m/6628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy 5 2 false Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 12 16:27:44 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 14:41:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 6628 0143037234 9780143037231 4252 584 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604182m/6628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy 3 1 false Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 12:46:02 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 09:20:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 828409 0340897104 9780340897102 106 12 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178735308m/828409.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/828409.The_Big_Over_Easy 5 1 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 13:13:35 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 23 01:37:02 -0800 2007 Lost in a Good Book and almost on par with The Eyre Affair - something which I thought absolutely impossible.

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Despite the dry and everpresent humor, it still wasn't hard t...more...]]> 6628 0143037234 9780143037231 4252 584 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604182m/6628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy 5 0 false Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 19:55:44 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 21:10:57 -0800 2009
* Charles Pewter, of The Diary of an Ordinary...more...]]> 6628 0143037234 9780143037231 4252 584 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604182m/6628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy 4 0 false Wed Oct 28 14:01:10 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 14:01:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6628 0143037234 9780143037231 4252 584 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604182m/6628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy 3 0 false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 14:32:35 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 14:33:46 -0700 2009 1
One key thing to know about Jasper ...more...]]> 828409 0340897104 9780340897102 106 12 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178735308m/828409.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/828409.The_Big_Over_Easy 3 0 false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 12:44:04 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 13:14:39 -0700 2009 The characters come straight from nursery rhymes, but with the twist that they have a life, in Reading, beyond the rhyme descriptions. ...more...]]> 6628 0143037234 9780143037231 4252 584 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604182m/6628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy 3 1 false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 17:22:28 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 17:51:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6628 0143037234 9780143037231 4252 584 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604182m/6628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy 4 0 false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 16:20:37 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 19:37:33 -0700 2009
I loved the "Thursday Next" books, although I felt that by book 5 they started to get a little stale, so it was great that this book is along the same vain but on a differen...more...]]> 6628 0143037234 9780143037231 4252 584 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604182m/6628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy 4 1 false Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 18:37:25 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 18:45:44 -0700 2008 more...]]> 6628 0143037234 9780143037231 4252 584 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604182m/6628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy 3 1 false Wed Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 11:30:29 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 11:29:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 6628 0143037234 9780143037231 4252 584 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604182m/6628.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6628.The_Big_Over_Easy 3 0 false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 17:46:47 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 17:50:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 676817 0670034231 9780670034239 125 26 3.82 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177039535m/676817.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/676817.The_Big_Over_Easy 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:35:49 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:35:49 -0800 2009 Hearing characters debate the implications of "illegal straw-into-gold dens" is attractive to a certain type of reader. Puns and silliness can certainly provide laugh-out-loud fun, especially when cleverly handled. But critics found this new series debut from literary jokester Jasper Fford...

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Fun, if a bit too breaking the fourth wall sometimes, which is also my pro...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1735228