I loved this book enough to buy a copy to ring it. :)

This has been reviewed over on my book blog, all comments welcomed!

Usual rules apply for the bookring - please read in a month or ask me to add you to the end of the shipping order to give you more time. If someone doesn't respond to PMs then please skip them.

Shipping order:

Causticangel (UK)
Glasgowgal (UK)
Jalna (UK)
Ziggythecat (UK)
Skribble (UK)
Netstation (UK)
Tehuti (UK)
Doris (Canada)

Book lost!!!

All other readers are being moved to: another copy.

RELEASE NOTES:

On to causticangel to start the ring. :)

Was passed this at the York Meet yesterday & am already more than half way through. It's a very quick read but so far v.g. Will pass it on as soon as I get the next address!

Really enjoyed this - thanks for passing it on to me! Posted it onwards this morning.

Received in Glasgow this morning. Thanks causticangel and daemonwolf. I'm really looking forward to reading this!

What a lovely little novel! The premise of the book is that there is an island state, located off the South coast of the USA, which is set up around the pangram "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" ascribed to one Nevin Nollop. The residents of Nollop have shunned all modern technology in favour of the written word. However, as the letters of the famous phrase start to fall off the statue revering Nollop, the council starts to ban those letters that no longer appear on the statue. The book is written in the form of letters and notes passed around a cast of Nollopians as the letters continue to be banned.

As well as being an entertaining story, I loved the fact that it makes you really think about things that you take for granted every day. As the book progressed, I started to wonder at the words and phrases that could still be written without the banned letters, but also started to realise the importance of the As and Bs and Cs that we take for granted every day. Without the consituent letters, there is no lanugage!

I just loved the ending, and wouldn't dream of spoiling it for anyone still to read the book! Thanks for sharing, Daemonwolf. This is yet another book I would never have read had it not been for BookCrossing!

:-)

RELEASE NOTES:

Sent to Jalna today, 1st class, with apologies for the delay.

Not only with apologies (unnecessary) but with choccy too!!

I'm really looking forward to settling down to munch and read this one. I've had a quick flip through and it looks like great fun. I love books that are a little bit quirky and this one definitely offers to fit that bill. I shall start to read it very soon.

This book was a delight! Funny, clever and so unusual. I love quirky things and am so taken with this book that I shall probably buy a copy for my PC.

The new names for the days of the week are wonderful and I vote for them to be adopted into our language immediately! (Im writing this on a Thurby!)

I seem to have been very lax about JEs lately. This book was sent on to the next reader on 18 March.

Yikes sorry, just came to do the journal before sending it on to skribble & realise I didn't journal it when it arrived, oops.

An intriguing book,funny but also full of interesting ideas about how the society collapses when the nollopians can't communicate freely with each other. The frustration and fear they felt reminded me of reading about the cultural revolution in White Swans.

Thanks daemonwolf.

Book arrived today. It 'should' be read after a couple of others that I need to get finished, but it looks small and easy to read so may just sneak in ahead!

It is a lovely little, inventive book.

At first I found the letter format a little annoying, as I was struggling to keep track of who was who and the relationships between characters. But after a while it all fell into place.

I coulnd't help pondering how hard it must have been to write!

Will be on its way to netstation as soon as I've got the address!

I have been a baaad bookcrosser! This arrived last week, together with another ring, and excited that I'd got new books to read on my last trip I chucked them in my bag and took them away with me. See what's missing? I didn't journal them first! Sorry, Skribble, I didn't mean to give you palpitations about the PO.

I loved this book. Witty and clever without being pretentious. On the surface, a simple exercise in lippogrammatical lexicography with the benefit of some gloriously imaginative invented words, but underneath a dark heart beats I think. Dunn uses his skill to demonstrate convincingly that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but that, even in Nollop, there will always be the 'persister', the 'ootlaster' who will do whatever they can to prevent such abuses. A morality tale, and a delightful and funny read, too!

This will be off in the post to Tehuti tomorrow, Phrytay! ;o)

This arrived on June 9th as I was about to leave the house for a weekend away. Am looking forward to reading it.

This is an amusing story containing much word play, but it is also a commentary on the dangers that can arise when religious fanatics are given political power. I continue to be amazed and delighted at the books that I am discovering through Bookcrossing, and several of the best ones have originated from daemonwolf.

I posted this to doris on Friday 1st July on my way to the Unconvention.

Book lost!!!

All other readers are being moved to: another copy.