Talk:The Big Over Easy

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The ISBN should not be in the summary since there are at least 5 ISBNs for different editions of the book. A section listing them would be more appropriate - any volunteers? Chardir 10:23, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Nursery rhyme/literary/television references cleanup 2 Plot summary removed 3 Theme 4 Big list: Allusions/references to other works 5 Book Cover

[edit] Nursery rhyme/literary/television references cleanup

This list doesn't seem very encyclopedic. It needs to be shortened to siginificant examples and converted to prose. As it is it's a random list of nursery rhymes and characters without any description of how they are connected to the novel. Chardir 15:24, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plot summary removed

The following text was removed without explanation. Seems like an appropriate summary - care to expound? Ronnotel 21:46, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

===Plot summary=== Template:Spoiler Set in an alternate version of Reading, Berkshire, England, in which nursery characters work and live, the novel follows Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crime Division, currently dealing with the disastrous prosecution and acquittal of the three little pigs and deep budget cuts. Jack faces the very real possibility that his department may be disbanded if he cannot show good results on his next case: Humpty Dumpty has been found dead, and Jack and his new partner Mary Mary have been asked to investigate the case.

[edit] Theme

The article currently says, "The overriding theme is that nursery rhymes and fairy stories are based upon real people who are living relatively normal lives in the present." Since the events of the story are taking place in the BookWorld, this is incorrect. Right? -- Noneofyourbusiness 04:21, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Some response, please? -- Noneofyourbusiness 02:39, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

What with all the metafiction, it's hard to say. I think at the moment we'd best treat TBOE as a novel in its own right, and not as a novel within the world of Thursday Next. If we start pulling at that thread, whole worlds will come undone. Branfish 14:51, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

You mean, despite the fact that Fforde has referred to it as taking place inside of Caversham Heights? -- Noneofyourbusiness 19:16, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Big list: Allusions/references to other works

This doesn't seem encyclopedic. I think it should be removed. Wednesday Next (talk) 15:58, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Book Cover

I'm wondering why this subject shows an American cover when its an UK book. Surely the English version was published first? -Paul —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.243.64.138 (talk) 15:19, 19 May 2008 (UTC)