I wish I'd picked this book up directly after reading The Well of Lost Plots. Now this is legislation I can get behind.Ĥ.
The new measures, part of the Criminal Narrative Improvement Bill, have been drafted to avoid investigations looking clichéd. Which brings me to another quote:Īnyone who finds a corpse while walking their dog may be fined if proposed legislation is made law, it was disclosed yesterday.
I'm equally sure he definitely meant to write a satirised murder mystery and this was easily the closest I've ever read to my blog's namesake movie, Murder By Death, which in my totally biased opinion is the acme of mystery satire. I had a really hard time reading this and not drawing parallels.ģ. I'm pretty sure Fforde had no intention of writing a satire (based on what I've found on the interwebs) about the sensationalism of the free press, but this is definitely a case of current events shaping a reader's interpretation of the text. 'Well,' said Pewter, 'you know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?'Ģ. Pewter led them through to a library filled with thousands of antiquarian books. Easily the most highly quotable book I've ever read. I have so many random thoughts about this book. Anyone who has ever been read a nursery rhyme. Like the Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket books, this one is abundantly playful without being truly geared for children. This summeras perfect beach read for eggheads.a "aThe Wall Street Journal" aAs if the Marx brothers were let loose in the childrenas section of a strange bookstore.a "aUSA Today" aPythonesque. A] cleverly plotted, magically overstuffed yet amazingly digestible book. Yes, the big egg is down, and all those brittle pieces sitting in the morgue point to foul play. Heas investigating the murder of ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty, found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of the Nursery Crime Division. In "The Big Over Easy," Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Jasper Fforde does it again with a dazzling new series starring Inspector Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crime Division Jasper Ffordeas bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy.
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