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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
Glad I reread the first of the Nursery Crimes series. I look forward to the next installment! These are all quite farfetched, but thoroughly entertaining and humbling with Fforde's imagination. How in the world does he come up with this stuff? In this one, we learn more about our friends Jack Spratt, Mary Mary and Ashley. THese characters are becoming quite their own little world, yet neatly relate to the Thursday Next stories, too. Definitely, start with the Big Over Easy - not with this one.
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Clever, witty, another enjoyable nursery mystery solved.
This is a very clever book! I enjoyed the subtle use of nursery rhyme lore included in the story line
Funnier, cleverer, and more thrilling than it’s predecessor, The Fourth Bear provides another charmingly original take on the mystery genre that is weighed down only by its somewhat predictable and implausible solution.
Hilarious, clever and thrilling as ever-I heartily reccommend it!
I love Jasper Fforde. He could write a VCR instruction manual and it would be funny and nerdy all at the same time.
Just finished this book, it was funny and intriguing completely off the wall. Very Douglas Adamsy. I must read some more of his stuff.
This series is so fun. It's too bad he hasn't continued it, although I suppose there are only so many nursery rhymes. This one was a little more contrived than the other one, but overall it was good. I didn't buy the theme part bit and all the guys in charge and how the fourth bear turned out to be involved. I didn't think the Gingerbread man was very convincing, and I don't understand the cake vs cookie argument. I loved all the relationships here -- Jack and his wife and the question of what it means to be "real", Punch and Judy and their side gig (hah!), Pandora and Prometheus and all the religion and philosophy discussions, and of course Mary and Ashley... was so sad about what happened in the end but I guess that leaves room for more tension in future novels :)
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(cookies would fall apart just as quickly when drenched in water, wouldn't they?)
funny
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No