Oh, ancient art of letter writing, what has happened to you?I occasionally have little bouts of ‘I’m Going to Write People Letters’ phases. These phases never last long as I run out of stamps and never feel like going to the post office to buy more. Every time I hear news about email systems it oc...
About a year ago, I was talking about Jasper Fforde and the Thursday Next series of books, and someone mentioned this book to me. I put it on my TBR, but it wasn't until one of my groups here an GR picked it as a group read that I actually got to reading it. The similarities to the Thursday Next b...
I read this in about 4 hours all in one day. It was a fast read, but it was very fun, and more literary than most 4-hour books are. The eloquence of the characters as they write their letters back and forth make this a lovely experiment in creative language. Toward the end it got a little difficult ...
The quick brown ...... fox jumps over the lazy dog.A whole society built on this sentence and how it disintegrates when the letters of the revered sentence start falling one by one.A witty and interesting read!
I was very excited to read this book when I read about it, and though it wasn't necessarily as exciting to read, it did live up to my expectations in some ways. The story follows a group of people living on Nollop Island (named after Nevin Nollop, the "quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" guy,...
Clever + Silly = waste of time and paper.A ridiculous book, masquerading as something intelligent and thought provoking. There are plenty of far better books that raise issues of totalitarianism, censorship versus free speech, superstition versus science, loyalty to friends and family versus loyalty...
High marks for clever premise! And I can only imagine the thought and skill it took to write - particularly as more and more letters are banned from the people of Nollop and therefore from the novel as well. I'm afraid that my dislike for epistolary novels was the biggest road block for me. I don'...
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