The Mouse That Roared (Bookring)

by Leonard Wibberley | Literature & Fiction |
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Registered by wingLeseschafwing of Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on 7/6/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by wingLeseschafwing from Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Tuesday, July 6, 2004
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick declared open war on the United States - and won. A land with five miles by three, with some six thousand citizens, a river, three valleys, a mountain and a castle invades the USA because of pure economic reasons.

Journal Entry 2 by wingLeseschafwing from Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Tuesday, September 7, 2004
Participants:
sgscarcliff (US)
mitziyah (US)
DJgib (NL)
concertina8" (A)
KatColorado (CH)
Brujula (F)
sheepseeker (D)
-aoirghe- (D)

Sudizoso (D)

Journal Entry 3 by wingsgscarcliffwing on Tuesday, September 21, 2004
I just received today and will start reading this weekend.

Journal Entry 4 by wingsgscarcliffwing on Sunday, October 24, 2004
I really enjoyed the book. It has been for ever since I have seen the movie.

Some comments
P5, discussion of Roger Fenwick - the things he learned in his 2 years at oxford. 1 a Yea might turn in to a Nae and vica versa if a sufficient quantity of wordage was applied. In other talk you argument out until you get the answer you want. 2 the victor is always right. My dad has commented that in war it is the winner that rights the history which is basically the same thing. 3 though the pen is mightier thatn the sword, the sword speaks louder and stronger at any given moment. I like this last one.

P 145 The first time in the history of the United States, if not the world, women, in effect, canceled the war. I think women should make a habit of canceling the wars.

I think this book and the movie should get a big reading and showing now.

i will mail early this week

Journal Entry 5 by mitziyah from Seattle, Washington USA on Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Oh, what a delightful read. This arrived in the mail the day before I was to leave on a 16 day vacation in Costa Rica and I was much too scared of damaging it to take it along with me. Luckily, though, a friend actually gave me a different copy of this book as a birthday present that evening (what are the odds?) so I was able to take my own personal copy with me into the rain forest. It was the perfect travel book, although I laughed out loud often, thus receiving strange looks from others on the bus. Although written in the early 1950s I found that many of the themes were ESPECIALLY relevant today. Very funny and original, well-planned. What a great read. Thanks for having this bookring.

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I FINALLY got a chance to go to the post office yesterday, so it is on its way, via airmail (as the less expensive option would have taken up to THREE MONTHS!! Yikes...that must have been one slow boat). Sorry to hold up the bookring, guys, but the post office just changed their hours...they used to be open until 6pm, but now close at 5, so I have to find time on my lunch break to go. Oh well.

Good luck little book.

Journal Entry 7 by DJgib from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Saturday, December 18, 2004
Just received the book. I'll start reading when I've finished my current book, which should be in a couple of days. After that, sending on may not be that quick due to the festive season (going on holiday), but should happen shortly after New Year. I'll be as quick as possible.

Journal Entry 8 by DJgib from Cambridge, Cambridgeshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, December 29, 2004
This was an entertaining read. I thought the book was really quaint. The idea was nice, and quite cleverly worked out. However, the story needed just a little bit too much coincidence to work, and that got to me a little. However, I'm very pleased to have made the acquaintance of this little book, and send many thanks to Leseschaf for sharing.

The book was sent on its way on December 30th.

Journal Entry 9 by concertina8 on Wednesday, January 12, 2005
this arrived today as part of a bookring to join the ever-growing mount TBR...

Journal Entry 10 by concertina8 on Monday, January 24, 2005
i started this book yesterday....and i finished it yesterday. it's a good thing i get a lot of reading done on sundays. it really helps with my huge pile of books tbr.

fast and easy read. i wanted to read this book because i really enjoyed the movie based on it (with peter sellers as tully, peter sellers as a minister, and peter sellers as the duchess....and i think it also has peter sellers in it :-)). although the book is different in many ways, the basic idea is the same (fear of communism, cold war, the BIG BOMB etc.). i wonder what reaction it got, when it first came out....

an enjoyable book that will make you smile often. thx for sharing.

oh, and DO watch the film if you get around to it. did i mentioned it has peter sellers in it?

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the mouse that roared travels on...

Journal Entry 12 by KatColorado from Zürich, Zürich Switzerland on Wednesday, February 2, 2005
Ist heute angekommen. Ich bin völlig überrascht, wie das Buch aussieht, irgendwie einfach anders als alle anderen, die ich bisher bekommen habe ;-)) Ich bin grad noch an einem Bookring, aber schon in der Hälfte, danach werde ich mich der Maus widmen. Ich bin gespannt.

Vielen Dank fürs Schicken Concertina8 und fürs Organisieren Leseschaf!

Journal Entry 13 by KatColorado from Zürich, Zürich Switzerland on Sunday, February 6, 2005
A truly wonderful fairytale!

In 1956, The Duchy of Grand Fenwick declared war on the United States of America. It was their only chance of survival. They didn't expect to win, but they did anyway and got the most powerful weapon of the world - the Q-Bomb.

Now they were facing extrem responsibilities to save mankind. Again they found the perfect solution - with the help of the Tiny Twenty, 20 countries almost as small as the Duchy of Grand Fenwick. They were to be the guardians of the bomb and were to control the big nations in the distruction of their most dangerous weapons.

I enjoyed reading this book a lot and wished every problem could be solved so easily and swiftly!

Journal Entry 14 by KatColorado at on Thursday, February 10, 2005

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The mouse will travel on today, to Brujula in France...

Journal Entry 15 by Brujula from Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais France on Monday, February 14, 2005
Received today!
Thank you Leseschaf and KatColorado!

Journal Entry 16 by Brujula from Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais France on Thursday, April 14, 2005
A very clever and funny story.

I'm a bit surprised by what the author considers to be a "tiny" country... Mexico, Turkey, Saudi Arabia don't seem exactly small to me!

I enjoyed reading this book full of humour, with very accurate "piques" (the matter of what to do after the duchy won the war couldn't be discussed in the french parliament because a discussion about taxi's fares lasted too long... that's typical here!)

Thank you for letting me read this, Leseschaf!

I'll send it to sheepseeker as soon as I have his adress.

Journal Entry 17 by Brujula from Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais France on Friday, April 29, 2005
Mailed to sheepseeker today.

Journal Entry 18 by Sheepseeker from Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Monday, May 9, 2005
Arrived savely, thank you, Brujula!

What a lovely story - it always felt like ready a fairy tale or the David and Goliath story. Great book, that I would never have dicovered without BC - Thank's a lot, Leseschaf!

Will be handed over to -aoirghe- as soon as possible!

Journal Entry 19 by -aoirghe- from Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Saturday, June 11, 2005
I've received the book yesterday at our German-Swiss-Meeting. There are two other bookring to be finished first but I'll try not to keep it too long.

Journal Entry 20 by -aoirghe- from Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Sunday, July 3, 2005
I've finished the book already a week ago, but I forgot to make an entry due to work overload.

This book is just brilliant and so much ahead of its time! Of course you can notice that it has been written in the Fifties, but I just liked the criticism against the "atom mania" of the time...;-) I also liked the idea of the "Tiny Twenty" controlling the big nations.

Thanks for sharing, Leseschaf, the book will travel on to Sudizoso as soon as he has answered my pm.

edit 20th July:
Yesterday I got Sudizoso's address (just another pm-bug, I guess) and today the book travelled on.

Journal Entry 21 by Sudizoso from Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz Germany on Sunday, July 31, 2005
The book arrived some days ago

Journal Entry 22 by wingLeseschafwing from Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany on Thursday, August 18, 2005
Safely back home!
Thanks for all your interesting journal entries.

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