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Summary: A great story for our time - and fun, too.
Review: Wow! What a book! After reading the cover I expected a clever little book that light-heartedly showed off the author's skill at manipulating the English language. While it is that, it is also a profound social allegory that levies a scathing indictment against governments ruled by fundamentalist doctrine. There's an unsettling similarity between Nollop, where people who use proscribed letters are forced to emigrate, and another country where those who perform medical research must go elsewhere if they wish to obtain funding. "Ella Minnow Pea" belongs on the shelf next to Orwell's "Animal Farm".
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Summary: This little tome ranks up there with the best cautionaries
Review: You know, George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is a classic, but Mark Dunn may just have presented a new little allegory to rival Orwell's.
The concept of an island nation, small, intimate, loving, facing division at the hands of a dead founder's sacred strip, "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", is no more incredible than the crazy world in which we now live with unreasoning bureaucracies gone mad in the sake of conservative preservation.
Dunn may be best known as a playwright, but this little book and his "Welcome to Higby" just cinch him as a darn talented and creative writer.
It doesn't always take a thick book to get the message over.
Rating:
Summary: This little tome ranks up there with the best cautionaries
Review: You know, George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is a classic, but Mark Dunn may just have presented a new little allegory to rival Orwell's. The concept of an island nation, small, intimate, loving, facing division at the hands of a dead founder's sacred strip, "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", is no more incredible than the crazy world in which we now live with unreasoning bureaucracies gone mad in the sake of conservative preservation. Dunn may be best known as a playwright, but this little book and his "Welcome to Higby" just cinch him as a darn talented and creative writer. It doesn't always take a thick book to get the message over.
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