Do Not Pass Go
Registered by lucycat of Hull, East Yorkshire United Kingdom on 11/2/2004
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
From the back cover:
'Welcome to London. A city where a house is yours for £50, banks make errors in your favour and you can even park your car for free. In Do Not Pass Go, Tim Moore boldly tackles the Monopoly board's real streets, telling the story of a game and the city that frames it. Moore stays in a hotel in Mayfair and one on the Old Kent Road, and solves all the mysteries you'll have pondered whilst languishing in jail: how Pall Mall got its name, which three addresses you won't find in your A-Z and why the sorry cul-de-sac that is Vine Street has a special place in the heart of Britain's most successful Monopoly champion.
Do Not Pass Go is a travelogue of one man's erratic journey around those 28 streets, stations and utilities, and an epic history of London's wayward progress since the launch of the world's most popular board game.
Absolutely fabulous (hey, how many books do I award ten stars to?), and the book that brought Tim Moore to my attention and straight into my list of favourite authors. There's so much to enjoy here, from his Hawks-esque passion for extravagant bets and dares, to his obvious love of the City of London and the beautiful game itself...Monopoly, that is.
And you've got to love any book that can have you laughing from the 'Acknowledgements' section on...
'Welcome to London. A city where a house is yours for £50, banks make errors in your favour and you can even park your car for free. In Do Not Pass Go, Tim Moore boldly tackles the Monopoly board's real streets, telling the story of a game and the city that frames it. Moore stays in a hotel in Mayfair and one on the Old Kent Road, and solves all the mysteries you'll have pondered whilst languishing in jail: how Pall Mall got its name, which three addresses you won't find in your A-Z and why the sorry cul-de-sac that is Vine Street has a special place in the heart of Britain's most successful Monopoly champion.
Do Not Pass Go is a travelogue of one man's erratic journey around those 28 streets, stations and utilities, and an epic history of London's wayward progress since the launch of the world's most popular board game.
Absolutely fabulous (hey, how many books do I award ten stars to?), and the book that brought Tim Moore to my attention and straight into my list of favourite authors. There's so much to enjoy here, from his Hawks-esque passion for extravagant bets and dares, to his obvious love of the City of London and the beautiful game itself...Monopoly, that is.
And you've got to love any book that can have you laughing from the 'Acknowledgements' section on...
Released on Tuesday, November 02, 2004 at about 7:00PM at The Mission, Posterngate in Hull, England United Kingdom.
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Picked up for release at the Third Hull BookCrossing Meet tonight - see you there!
RELEASE NOTES:
Picked up for release at the Third Hull BookCrossing Meet tonight - see you there!
Picked up at the Mission meet way back when - am just clearing up 'The Mission' release notes!
Journal Entry 4 by lucycat at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, May 26, 2005
Released 18 yrs ago (5/26/2005 UTC) at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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RELEASE NOTES:
Retrospective release notes for a controlled release that's still out there...somewhere...
Retrospective release notes for a controlled release that's still out there...somewhere...
