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The link that you need is too long to post, so use the link above and search for The Big Over Easy .

The info on the book has a link saying Preview what`s inside - Read an Excerpt.

I started a new thread because I got all excited. :blush:

Anybody reading this yet?

Me ! Me ! I`m 150 pages in, Miss. ;)

QUOTE (melian @ Jul 11 2005, 03:37 PM)

Anybody reading this yet?

Mine arrived but I've still got Something Rotten to read first (I like to do things in order, LOL) along with many others so it'll probably be a while before I get to it :(

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 12 2005, 12:42 PM)

QUOTE (melian @ Jul 11 2005, 03:37 PM)

Anybody reading this yet?

Mine arrived but I've still got Something Rotten to read first (I like to do things in order, LOL) along with many others so it'll probably be a while before I get to it :(

Aw. :(

Really enjoying it. :yahoo:

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 12 2005, 12:46 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 12 2005, 12:42 PM)

QUOTE (melian @ Jul 11 2005, 03:37 PM)

Anybody reading this yet?

Mine arrived but I've still got Something Rotten to read first (I like to do things in order, LOL) along with many others so it'll probably be a while before I get to it :(

Aw. :(

Really enjoying it. :yahoo:

Me too :thumbsup:

LOL@ Jack finding something familiar about the beans/cow thing :lol:

"They weren't giants, they were just very tall!" :lmao:

I love all the character/business names again :thumbsup:

(Though I don't think anything will ever top 'Landen Parke Laine' ;) )

Ooooh, how far are you in to the book again, Karen ? Wasn`t it about the same as me ? :ponder:

Loved one particular line on Page 39. ;)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 12 2005, 03:10 PM)

Ooooh, how far are you in to the book again, Karen ? Wasn`t it about the same as me ? :ponder:

Loved one particular line on Page 39. ;)

I noticed that one too :lol:

I'm at about page 200 or so and things are really starting to heat up :thumbsup:

:lol: I think I've finally found a name to top Landens;

Major Lee Whriski, bomb squad.

I think people on the bus were giving me funny looks this morning because I was giggling :D

Was reading until midnight - now up to page 300 - I don`t want it to end ! :cry: :lmao:

380. Only 18 pages more :cry:

Finished it ! Whaaaahh !!! :cry:

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 14 2005, 12:18 PM)

Finished it ! Whaaaahh !!! :cry:

I second that Whaaaahh!!!! :cry:

Can't wait for the next one :lol:

HOW many twists and turns were there in that book, it was fantastic :D

You 2 have convinced me, I've brought the book into w**k with me and am hoping to start it later when it gets a bit quieter :thumbsup:

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 14 2005, 01:41 PM)

You 2 have convinced me, I've brought the book into w**k with me and am hoping to start it later when it gets a bit quieter :thumbsup:

:thumbsup: Yay!! You won't regret it :lol:

Katie, look away now ! ;)

SPOILERS !!!

Loved the dedication hidden in the book .... In one of the early chapters, there was a to which ` should ` have been edited out, then near the end, there`s a reference to a Mull Foon instead of full moon .... To MF - the front page says dedicated to my brother Matthew, awwwww. :thumbsup:

I totally hadn't noticed that :o :blush:

QUOTE (melian @ Jul 14 2005, 03:06 PM)

I totally hadn't noticed that :o :blush:

I thought I was reading too much into it, then noticed that the dedication was to his brother, Matthew - then thought - aha ! :thumbsup:

Can`t find the `to` bit, but I think it was early on and near the end of a chapter, and as part of a speech...

The mull foon is on page 381....line 3. :)

Cheers :thumbsup:

Review taken from the Times.... :thumbsup:

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July 16, 2005

Crime

Who killed Humpty?
By Marcel Berlins

DETECTIVE INSPECTOR Jack Spratt, head of Reading police’s Nursery Crimes Division (NCD), is depressed. A jury has unexpectedly acquitted the three pigs of murdering Mr Wolff. The year before, the NCD had failed to get a conviction against the conmen who’d perpetrated the Emperor’s New Clothes scam. Worse, none of NCD’s recent cases had featured in the bestselling magazine Amazing Crime Stories, where coverage is the main mark of a police department’s success. A long time ago, Spratt (whose first wife, who could eat no lean, died young of her unhealthy diet) solved the murder of Cock Robin, but now the press ignore him and he can’t even qualify for the society for newsworthy detectives.

In Jasper Fforde’s The Big Over Easy (Hodder & Stough- ton, £12.99; offer £11.69) Spratt is given a new Official Sidekick, Detective Sergeant Mary Mary, and a crime is committed that could restore Spratt and NCD to fame and favour. The shattered body of Humperdinck (Humpty) van Dumpty, entrepreneur, millionaire and womaniser, is found at the bottom of a wall. It looks like a shooting — though, as the pathologist notes, there’s not been much research into the effect of bullets hitting big eggs. Solomon Grundy and Willie Winkie are among suspects.

I think you get the gist. Fforde offers a cascade of puns, plays on words, surrealism, satire and verbal virtuosity based on children’s rhymes and stories. Astonishingly, he stays funny for 400 pages (and this is only the first in the Nursery Crime Division trilogy). Even more amazingly, there’s a real plot there, a proper mystery with a surprise solution.

I am so pleased that I was put onto Jasper Fforde, the man is a genius :thumbsup: Loved The Big Over Easy, completely original as far as I know :unsure: I'm currently in the process of persuading friends and family to read him but they are slow on the uptake :rolleyes: The best thing is that I still have Something Rotten in my tbr pile so I'm not completely bereft yet :thumbsup:

Talking of things Ffordian, I`m having to reorder The Eyre Affair because I gave my copy to a friend. :lol:

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 23 2005, 10:09 PM)

Talking of things Ffordian, I`m having to reorder The Eyre Affair because I gave my copy to a friend. :lol:

:o You gave your copy away? Did your friend not give it back? I only lend books to people I know I can trust to treat them right and give them back or else I just don't offer :ph43r:

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 23 2005, 10:40 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 23 2005, 10:09 PM)

Talking of things Ffordian, I`m having to reorder The Eyre Affair because I gave my copy to a friend. :lol:

:o You gave your copy away? Did your friend not give it back? I only lend books to people I know I can trust to treat them right and give them back or else I just don't offer :ph43r:

Nooooo, it was a present - I didn`t have time/ foresight to get a nice, new copy for my trip to Yorkshire, so my friend got my copy of the book and some baby things as a present. :)

Otherwise, I agree, I`m not running a lending library here, and I`m very good with my books - you can barely tell that I`ve read them at all. None of this cracking spines or turning down pages ( * shudder * ). :lmao:

I had great difficulty getting hold of some of my Spenser books,; they weren`t in print in the UK anymore, so I had to get them from the US or specialist bookshops here ( this was before Amazon ). They don`t even leave the house. :snooty:

I take it you accept people`s pets as collateral until your book is returned ?! :lol:

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 24 2005, 02:44 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 23 2005, 10:40 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 23 2005, 10:09 PM)

Talking of things Ffordian, I`m having to reorder The Eyre Affair because I gave my copy to a friend. :lol:

:o You gave your copy away? Did your friend not give it back? I only lend books to people I know I can trust to treat them right and give them back or else I just don't offer :ph43r:

Nooooo, it was a present - I didn`t have time/ foresight to get a nice, new copy for my trip to Yorkshire, so my friend got my copy of the book and some baby things as a present. :)

Otherwise, I agree, I`m not running a lending library here, and I`m very good with my books - you can barely tell that I`ve read them at all. None of this cracking spines or turning down pages ( * shudder * ). :lmao:

I had great difficulty getting hold of some of my Spenser books,; they weren`t in print in the UK anymore, so I had to get them from the US or specialist bookshops here ( this was before Amazon ). They don`t even leave the house. :snooty:

I take it you accept people`s pets as collateral until your book is returned ?! :lol:

:lmao: Not quite, but I do insist on a contract that states, in the event of them not returning a book, I'm entitled to their firstborn :ph43r: :lmao:

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 24 2005, 09:55 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 24 2005, 02:44 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 23 2005, 10:40 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 23 2005, 10:09 PM)

Talking of things Ffordian, I`m having to reorder The Eyre Affair because I gave my copy to a friend. :lol:

:o You gave your copy away? Did your friend not give it back? I only lend books to people I know I can trust to treat them right and give them back or else I just don't offer :ph43r:

Nooooo, it was a present - I didn`t have time/ foresight to get a nice, new copy for my trip to Yorkshire, so my friend got my copy of the book and some baby things as a present. :)

Otherwise, I agree, I`m not running a lending library here, and I`m very good with my books - you can barely tell that I`ve read them at all. None of this cracking spines or turning down pages ( * shudder * ). :lmao:

I had great difficulty getting hold of some of my Spenser books,; they weren`t in print in the UK anymore, so I had to get them from the US or specialist bookshops here ( this was before Amazon ). They don`t even leave the house. :snooty:

I take it you accept people`s pets as collateral until your book is returned ?! :lol:

:lmao: Not quite, but I do insist on a contract that states, in the event of them not returning a book, I'm entitled to their firstborn :ph43r: :lmao:

:lmao: :lmao:

I`m still missing two Famous Five books which I lent out, quite a few years ago - does the pain ever go away ? :cry: :lol:

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 24 2005, 10:12 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 24 2005, 09:55 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 24 2005, 02:44 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 23 2005, 10:40 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 23 2005, 10:09 PM)

Talking of things Ffordian, I`m having to reorder The Eyre Affair because I gave my copy to a friend. :lol:

:o You gave your copy away? Did your friend not give it back? I only lend books to people I know I can trust to treat them right and give them back or else I just don't offer :ph43r:

Nooooo, it was a present - I didn`t have time/ foresight to get a nice, new copy for my trip to Yorkshire, so my friend got my copy of the book and some baby things as a present. :)

Otherwise, I agree, I`m not running a lending library here, and I`m very good with my books - you can barely tell that I`ve read them at all. None of this cracking spines or turning down pages ( * shudder * ). :lmao:

I had great difficulty getting hold of some of my Spenser books,; they weren`t in print in the UK anymore, so I had to get them from the US or specialist bookshops here ( this was before Amazon ). They don`t even leave the house. :snooty:

I take it you accept people`s pets as collateral until your book is returned ?! :lol:

:lmao: Not quite, but I do insist on a contract that states, in the event of them not returning a book, I'm entitled to their firstborn :ph43r: :lmao:

:lmao: :lmao:

I`m still missing two Famous Five books which I lent out, quite a few years ago - does the pain ever go away ? :cry: :lol:

No, but I think it gets better with time :lmao: :unsure:

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 24 2005, 10:33 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 24 2005, 10:12 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 24 2005, 09:55 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 24 2005, 02:44 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 23 2005, 10:40 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 23 2005, 10:09 PM)

Talking of things Ffordian, I`m having to reorder The Eyre Affair because I gave my copy to a friend. :lol:

:o You gave your copy away? Did your friend not give it back? I only lend books to people I know I can trust to treat them right and give them back or else I just don't offer :ph43r:

Nooooo, it was a present - I didn`t have time/ foresight to get a nice, new copy for my trip to Yorkshire, so my friend got my copy of the book and some baby things as a present. :)

Otherwise, I agree, I`m not running a lending library here, and I`m very good with my books - you can barely tell that I`ve read them at all. None of this cracking spines or turning down pages ( * shudder * ). :lmao:

I had great difficulty getting hold of some of my Spenser books,; they weren`t in print in the UK anymore, so I had to get them from the US or specialist bookshops here ( this was before Amazon ). They don`t even leave the house. :snooty:

I take it you accept people`s pets as collateral until your book is returned ?! :lol:

:lmao: Not quite, but I do insist on a contract that states, in the event of them not returning a book, I'm entitled to their firstborn :ph43r: :lmao:

:lmao: :lmao:

I`m still missing two Famous Five books which I lent out, quite a few years ago - does the pain ever go away ? :cry: :lol:

No, but I think it gets better with time :lmao: :unsure:

How long?

My copy of Stephen King's The Stand mysteriously went missing from my parents house earlier this year. They, and brother still deny all charges. I'm giving them till September to either find it or buy me a new one <_<

QUOTE (melian @ Jul 26 2005, 09:55 AM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 24 2005, 10:33 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 24 2005, 10:12 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 24 2005, 09:55 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 24 2005, 02:44 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 23 2005, 10:40 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 23 2005, 10:09 PM)

Talking of things Ffordian, I`m having to reorder The Eyre Affair because I gave my copy to a friend. :lol:

:o You gave your copy away? Did your friend not give it back? I only lend books to people I know I can trust to treat them right and give them back or else I just don't offer :ph43r:

Nooooo, it was a present - I didn`t have time/ foresight to get a nice, new copy for my trip to Yorkshire, so my friend got my copy of the book and some baby things as a present. :)

Otherwise, I agree, I`m not running a lending library here, and I`m very good with my books - you can barely tell that I`ve read them at all. None of this cracking spines or turning down pages ( * shudder * ). :lmao:

I had great difficulty getting hold of some of my Spenser books,; they weren`t in print in the UK anymore, so I had to get them from the US or specialist bookshops here ( this was before Amazon ). They don`t even leave the house. :snooty:

I take it you accept people`s pets as collateral until your book is returned ?! :lol:

:lmao: Not quite, but I do insist on a contract that states, in the event of them not returning a book, I'm entitled to their firstborn :ph43r: :lmao:

:lmao: :lmao:

I`m still missing two Famous Five books which I lent out, quite a few years ago - does the pain ever go away ? :cry: :lol:

No, but I think it gets better with time :lmao: :unsure:

How long?

My copy of Stephen King's The Stand mysteriously went missing from my parents house earlier this year. They, and brother still deny all charges. I'm giving them till September to either find it or buy me a new one <_<

A load of my Dean Koontz books have mysteriously disappeared over the years :unsure:

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 26 2005, 01:07 PM)

QUOTE (melian @ Jul 26 2005, 09:55 AM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 24 2005, 10:33 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 24 2005, 10:12 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 24 2005, 09:55 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 24 2005, 02:44 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 23 2005, 10:40 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 23 2005, 10:09 PM)

Talking of things Ffordian, I`m having to reorder The Eyre Affair because I gave my copy to a friend. :lol:

:o You gave your copy away? Did your friend not give it back? I only lend books to people I know I can trust to treat them right and give them back or else I just don't offer :ph43r:

Nooooo, it was a present - I didn`t have time/ foresight to get a nice, new copy for my trip to Yorkshire, so my friend got my copy of the book and some baby things as a present. :)

Otherwise, I agree, I`m not running a lending library here, and I`m very good with my books - you can barely tell that I`ve read them at all. None of this cracking spines or turning down pages ( * shudder * ). :lmao:

I had great difficulty getting hold of some of my Spenser books,; they weren`t in print in the UK anymore, so I had to get them from the US or specialist bookshops here ( this was before Amazon ). They don`t even leave the house. :snooty:

I take it you accept people`s pets as collateral until your book is returned ?! :lol:

:lmao: Not quite, but I do insist on a contract that states, in the event of them not returning a book, I'm entitled to their firstborn :ph43r: :lmao:

:lmao: :lmao:

I`m still missing two Famous Five books which I lent out, quite a few years ago - does the pain ever go away ? :cry: :lol:

No, but I think it gets better with time :lmao: :unsure:

How long?

My copy of Stephen King's The Stand mysteriously went missing from my parents house earlier this year. They, and brother still deny all charges. I'm giving them till September to either find it or buy me a new one <_<

A load of my Dean Koontz books have mysteriously disappeared over the years :unsure:

My grandma had borrowed a load of my DK books a few years ago. Unbeknownst to me, she then went on to lend them to her OAP club, and I had to rebuy the lot of them <_<

Old people have no respect :lol:

QUOTE (melian @ Jul 26 2005, 01:59 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 26 2005, 01:07 PM)

QUOTE (melian @ Jul 26 2005, 09:55 AM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 24 2005, 10:33 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 24 2005, 10:12 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 24 2005, 09:55 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 24 2005, 02:44 PM)

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 23 2005, 10:40 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 23 2005, 10:09 PM)

Talking of things Ffordian, I`m having to reorder The Eyre Affair because I gave my copy to a friend. :lol:

:o You gave your copy away? Did your friend not give it back? I only lend books to people I know I can trust to treat them right and give them back or else I just don't offer :ph43r:

Nooooo, it was a present - I didn`t have time/ foresight to get a nice, new copy for my trip to Yorkshire, so my friend got my copy of the book and some baby things as a present. :)

Otherwise, I agree, I`m not running a lending library here, and I`m very good with my books - you can barely tell that I`ve read them at all. None of this cracking spines or turning down pages ( * shudder * ). :lmao:

I had great difficulty getting hold of some of my Spenser books,; they weren`t in print in the UK anymore, so I had to get them from the US or specialist bookshops here ( this was before Amazon ). They don`t even leave the house. :snooty:

I take it you accept people`s pets as collateral until your book is returned ?! :lol:

:lmao: Not quite, but I do insist on a contract that states, in the event of them not returning a book, I'm entitled to their firstborn :ph43r: :lmao:

:lmao: :lmao:

I`m still missing two Famous Five books which I lent out, quite a few years ago - does the pain ever go away ? :cry: :lol:

No, but I think it gets better with time :lmao: :unsure:

How long?

My copy of Stephen King's The Stand mysteriously went missing from my parents house earlier this year. They, and brother still deny all charges. I'm giving them till September to either find it or buy me a new one <_<

A load of my Dean Koontz books have mysteriously disappeared over the years :unsure:

My grandma had borrowed a load of my DK books a few years ago. Unbeknownst to me, she then went on to lend them to her OAP club, and I had to rebuy the lot of them <_<

Old people have no respect :lol:

Grandmas these days ! :snooty:

This sounds good...but i'm racking my brains to recall the names of the police in the novel Thursday stays in in Well of Lost Plots...there's something familiar... :ponder:

I do think it's great how places like Reading and Swindon get to be the locations :)

QUOTE (Dot Matrix @ Jul 28 2005, 09:48 PM)

This sounds good...but i'm racking my brains to recall the names of the police in the novel Thursday stays in in Well of Lost Plots...there's something familiar... :ponder:

I do think it's great how places like Reading and Swindon get to be the locations :)

LOL, yes it's the same characters, DI Jack Sprat and DS Mary Mary :thumbsup:

QUOTE (Outta Sight @ Jul 28 2005, 10:20 PM)

QUOTE (Dot Matrix @ Jul 28 2005, 09:48 PM)

This sounds good...but i'm racking my brains to recall the names of the police in the novel Thursday stays in in Well of Lost Plots...there's something familiar... :ponder:

I do think it's great how places like Reading and Swindon get to be the locations :)

LOL, yes it's the same characters, DI Jack Sprat and DS Mary Mary :thumbsup:

LOL! I hadn't noticed that :lol:

I didn`t notice it until the bit in the book which talked about where Mary was living. :stoopid: :rolleyes:

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 29 2005, 12:29 PM)

I didn`t notice it until the bit in the book which talked about where Mary was living. :stoopid: :rolleyes:

:ph43r: I didn't even realise it then :rolleyes: :lol:

QUOTE (melian @ Jul 29 2005, 01:11 PM)

QUOTE (little pixie @ Jul 29 2005, 12:29 PM)

I didn`t notice it until the bit in the book which talked about where Mary was living. :stoopid: :rolleyes:

:ph43r: I didn't even realise it then :rolleyes: :lol:

I think the reason I knew was because I was reading The Well of Lost Plots at the same time that I became aware of The Big Over Easy so I saw the connections between the two books. The only thing I couldn't quite get my head round was the time scale but, looking back, I'm not sure there really was one. Loved the fact that Thursday Next appeared very briefly in it with an account of a "brightly painted sports car" speeding past them at one point :thumbsup: And, of course, the ever amorous Arnold appears again :thumbsup:

Interview with Jasper Fforde on the Barnes and Noble website

Use the clicky thing to get to the interview - there`s also news on that site of a Barnes and Noble reading group for Nursery Crimes, starting September 6th. :thumbsup: Click Jasper Fforde Home for the details, once you get up the interview page - the author will be participating in the forum. :lmao:

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