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krispos42

(49,445 posts)
26. Give "The Big Over Easy" by Jasper Fforde a try
Thu May 13, 2021, 09:49 PM
May 2021

It's imaginative and amusing and very well written.

Per Wikipedia:

The book is satirical, based on many nursery rhymes, fables, and the like. The main character Jack Spratt is based on Jack Sprat, and the secondary character is Mary Mary, both from nursery rhymes. They investigate events such as the Three Little Pigs and Humpty Dumpty. People from such sources are known in the book as PDRs, "persons of dubious reality".


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