Review
Fforde's latest book leaves the reviewers at Kirkus and Publishers Weekly distinctly unmoved, while both agree that the concept is clever, the former describes it as 'shallow and snarky' and the latter writes it off as 'not compelling in the least'. Over in England the reaction is more positive with the Guardian newspaper reviewer saying, 'I love it. The Big Over Easy is great not just because it's very funny (albeit with some excruciating puns) but also because it works properly as a whodunit. ....Comic genius'.
The Big Over Easy went down pretty well with my husband, Paul, who could be found happily cackling to himself for a couple of nights. However, at the end of the day it is sadly a shadow of the Thursday Next series. Paul's currently reading The Fourth Bear, the second in the series which is due out in August and says there are some good, easy laughs to be had, but sadly...
Beyond the Book
Fforde's
first book,
The Eyre Affair,
was published in 2001, and was
followed by
Lost In A Good
Book (2002),
The Well of
Lost Plots (2003) and
Something Rotten (2004). All
revolve around, female
detective, Thursday Next who
lives in a parallel world to our
own where books are paramount,
the Crimean War is still ongoing
and dodos are the pets of
choice.
Fforde says that he felt the
need to take a break and, to
that end, resurrected the
concept for a novel that he'd
first written in 1993-94,...
