Fford's "The Big Over Easy"

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Okay, so I like Fforde's books - A LOT - even though I tend to feel quite illiterate and idiotic for not getting most of the literary references. But I must say that I also love his book jackets and really wish that he'd come-out with a poster (or t-shirt) with this image:

http://a1204.g.akamai.net/7/1204/1401/05072104011/images.barnesandnoble.com/images/9930000/9939810.jpg

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 26 December 2005 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

so he's good hm?

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

No, he's staggeringly awful. That cover isn't bad though.

― Ray (Ray), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know that he's brilliant, but I find his stuff quite enjoyable, for whatever that's worth :) Just entertaining escapism, for the most part.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 4 August 2006 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

Some of his dialogue and word play is excellent, and I'm partial to a terrible pun or two, so he's a fairly entertaining read.

I read the first three Thursday Next books and enjoyed each one slightly less than the previous one, it seems he forgets his way a lot and just muddles through the plot to see where he ends up.

I know it's supposed to be surreal and silly but I struggle to get my head around "established characters from classic books as real people in Fforde books acting as other characters in non-existant books and/or alternative versions of classic books."

I've just started The Big Over Easy (£3 paperback from Monseur le Fopp, who really is spoiling us), but it's in a different cover from the one above.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n19/n95932.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

That first image is a serious spoiler btw. I'm about 40% of the way through and there's no mention of Humpty being shot.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 4 August 2006 10:38 (nineteen years ago)

I have a long rant somewhere about how you'd think he'd get the plot of Jane Eyre right before writing The Eyre Affair (and yes, I know there's an in-story explanation, but the plot is wrong even when that is taken into account), but I won't bore you with it.

― Ray (Ray), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

That cover reminds me of a preview of Bill Willingham's Fables spin-off comic, where Humpty (or some relative) has a literal ass-crack.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 4 August 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

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Fford's "The Big Over Easy" - Book Jacket