{"id":10042,"date":"2005-11-04T10:58:52","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T15:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/11\/04\/10042.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:53:42","slug":"book-report-the-big-over-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/11\/04\/book-report-the-big-over-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Big Over Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I must admit, when I heard that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasperfforde.com\/\">Jasper Fforde<\/a>&#8217;s next book was going to be a re-written version of his unpublished first novel, I was not terribly excited about it. I mean, I am a bit tired of Thursday Next, after&#8212;um, well, after reading the fourth one this summer. So when I found a copy on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinputnam.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,0_0670034231,00.html\">The Big Over Easy<\/a> on the library shelf, I picked it up, sure, but not with the kind of excitement and eagerness that I felt when I nabbed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=10006\">Anansi Boys<\/a>. You know, I wanted to read it, and I was going to read it, but ...\n<p>And, I&#8217;m sorry, Mr. Fforde, but that&#8217;s pretty much how it turned out. It was entertaining, and I certainly didn&#8217;t come close to deciding not to finish it or anything. But I doubt I&#8217;ll be reading it again in a hurry.\n<p>I will say that there is a terrific joke early in the book. Mr. Fforde doesn&#8217;t really punch it, though. The Great Detective is detailing a very Ellery murder, and reveals that the victim left a clue to the murderer&#8217;s identity by (etcetera etcetera etcetera) which is an anagram of the murderer&#8217;s name! Well, not the murderer&#8217;s full name, but the first thirteen letters of the murderer&#8217;s name, because the victim died before he was able to finish.\n<p>Hee, hee.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit, when I heard that Jasper Fforde\u2019s next book was going to be a re-written version of his unpublished first novel, I was not terribly excited about it. I mean, I am a bit tired of Thursday Next,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17584,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10042\/revisions\/17584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}