Ella Minnow Pea Mark Dunn, 2001 On the small, independent island nation of Nollop, located off the South Carolina coast, language is valued above all else. Nollop was the birthplace of the inventor of the pangram The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, and a monument with that sentence now ...
Off the coast of South Carolina, lies the tiny island nation of Nollop. Named for Nevin Nollop, author of the famed phrase, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," life on the island is idyllic, if a bit technologically backward. When the letter Z falls off the statue dedicated to Nollop, the...
There was a good council in Nollop,Who gave freedom of speech quite a wallop.With Amazon hands,They carried out plans,'Til Ella outsmarted the trollops.
Someone recommended this book to me, I liked the idea behind the book, so I was excited to begin it.There was no real connection with any of the characters. They came and went from one letter to another. They had no depth. Other than their troubles with the council and Amos' drinking problems there ...
Ella Minnow Pea is one of those books that once you've finished you want to run out and tell all of your friends to read. But then you sort of realize that it's also one of those books that is so unique, you can't really explain to them why they should read it. You're not even sure that they'd all...
If you stop to think about it, the premise (cultish town council bans the use of certain letters as they fall from a cenotaph) is absurd! But I was too busy being impressed by and entertained with the author's mad lipogrammatic skills to notice.My personal favorite pangram (culled from the FPN board...
Just started reading this last night - a silly bit of legerdemain with letters, but a bit of silliness is good now and then. I have the feeling it will be a quick read; it's an epistolary novel, and no one letter is that long. In fact, some are quite short! Will report when finished! So . . . fi...
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