Do Not Pass Go: From the Old Kent Road to Mayfair

by Tim Moore | Travel |
ISBN: 0224062638 Global Overview for this book
Registered by JamesUK of Chelmsford, Essex United Kingdom on 10/4/2010
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Journal Entry 1 by JamesUK from Chelmsford, Essex United Kingdom on Friday, November 5, 2010
My thoughts on the book;

Great account of a Monopoly fan who decided one day to tackle the game's London locations for real. Very funny and a really good read, especially for anyone who's had to play the game with their family at Christmas, and ended up turning the board over in a fit of anger and frustration! ;-) Recommended.

Below taken from;

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Do-Not-Pass-Go-Mayfair/dp/0099433869;

"Do Not Pass Go is the fourth comedy travelogue from Tim Moore.

Monopoly was, at least officially, invented during the 1930s by Charles Darrow, an unemployed boiler salesman from Germantown, Pennsylvania. (Darrow went to his grave, Moore notes, "stubbornly refusing to recall any contact with The Landlord Game, patented in 1904."). The original, and subsequent American versions, featured the streets of Atlantic City. The English, London edition first appeared in 1936, the same year as television and, apparently, the phrase "body odour".

Produced by Waddingtons, a firm of Leeds printers, the actual streets and stations were haphazardly chosen by Victor Watson, the managing director, and his secretary, Marjorie Phillips, after a weekend jolly in the capital.

Armed with board, dice and a 1933 London directory, Moore soon finds himself beaten by a Brazilian transsexual at Kings Cross (where else?); searching for the "Ampersand of Death" on Oxford Street; discovering how Coventry Street made the grade; tracing the decline of proto-Starbucks Lyons in Piccadilly and, of course, eating jellied eels in the "poo brown" east end of Whitechapel.

Moore places himself firmly in the centre of his yarn and, like Bill Bryson, displays a remarkable eye for the incongruous comic detail. Sometimes the quips and jokes come at expense of real interaction with those he meets, but the result is a hilarious paean to game and city, that will have you ferreting about in a cupboard to retrieve a long neglected set."

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