
The Fourth Bear
A Nursery Crime
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Narrated by:
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Simon Vance
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By:
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Jasper Fforde
But all is not what it seems. How could the bears' porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time? Why did Mr. and Mrs. Bear sleep in separate beds? Was there a fourth bear? And if there was, who was he, and why did he try to disguise Goldy's death as a freak accident?
Jack answers all these questions and a few others besides, rescues Mary Mary from almost certain death, and finally meets the Fourth Bear and the Gingerbreadman face-to-face.
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Critic reviews
"Jasper Fforde is able to write diabolically.... Outrageous satirical agility is his stock in trade." (The New York Times)
"Like the creators of...The Simpsons and South Park, Mr. Fforde uses fantasy to dissect real life.... He is our best thinking person's genre writer." (The Washington Times)
"Mr. Fforde manages to bombard the reader with more bizarre detail than most writers would dare to fit in their entire oeuvre, yet he does so with...light prose and easy, confident wit." (The Wall Street Journal)
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very clever
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I love the inventiveness of the author. The Gingerbread Man is a serial killer. Punch and Judy are marriage counselors. Insane!! All of these stories intersect until the fourth bear is revealed. Genius!!
The narrator is pretty special as well. It takes a special talent to voice a serial killing cake/cookie, an alien (well, several, actually), a variety of bears, and an insane amount of nursery rhyme characters, not to mention Poseidon. (Did I forget to mention him?)
More please!!
More please!
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And Now for Something Completely Different
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Delightfully Goofy
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The story line is no less complex, but it does tend to be a touch more farcical than the previous entries by Mr. Fforde. Worry not, this author knows how to tie up loose ends as no other author of speculative fiction in the English language. Well, he does tend to have a lot of ends in his hands compared to most, but it's a fine juggling act. Don't worry, just get it. It'll be over way too soon.
When Mr. Fforde steps out of the story to address the listener/reader directly for the first time in his books that at least I can remember, he does it quickly and well. And he does leave a broad hint that a certain favorite Spec Ops character is heading our way again.
The Toad, 2006
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Fans of the Thursday Next series will surely enjoy it -
if you are new to Jasper Fforde, expect a satirical kind of humor and action sequences that only occur after the plot has fully developed. It is more cerebral than emotional - except that I have come to love it!
Brilliant on a new level
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Another great book by Fforde
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Brilliantly Bonkers
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Not Thursday Next but
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