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The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
The Big Over Easy
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ISBN: 1429521821
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Series: Nursery Crime
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Ani's Book Abyss
Ani's Book Abyss rated it
4.0 Thoughts: The Big Over Easy
The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde Book 1 of Nursery Crimes It's Easter in Reading—a bad time for eggs—and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shatter...
Tannat
Tannat rated it
2.0 The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde
Series: Nursery Crime #1 The mystery aspect was somewhat interesting, so I kept reading to find out the whodunnit, but most of the humour fell flat for me. Mary Mary's hero worship of Chymes got tiresome real fast and Jack's home life was pretty dull to read about. I'm not saying I really wanted h...
Murder by Death
Murder by Death rated it
4.5 The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crimes, #1)
This book... I have so many random thoughts about this book. In no particular order: 1. Easily the most highly quotable book I've ever read. Including books of quotes. One of my favourites: Mr. Pewter led them through to a library filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh...
dianeh92345
dianeh92345 rated it
4.0 The Big Over Easy
It took me about half way through this book to really get it. I would give the beginning 2 stars and the last half 5 stars resulting in my overall 3.5 stars, which I rounded up to 4 stars, I have never read anything by this author before. I heard this was his worst novel in other reviews so I will p...
Fangs for the Fantasy
Fangs for the Fantasy rated it
5.0 The Big Over Easy (Jack Spratt Investigates #1) by Jasper Fforde
Jack Spratt (who has an unfortunate giant killing history) has lead the Nursey Crimes Division of Reading police for a long time – and has often been overlooked in favour of the more narratively pleasing detectives, like his nemesis Chymes Joined by new Detective Sergent Mary Mary (she’s from Basi...
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