Thursday, June 30, 2005

This is awesome. Looking gor a good book to read? Want one that's kind of funny, but not too off-the-wall? How about a disturbing book with lots of sex? Here's how to find whatever it is you're going for. You set a bunch of critera with a bunch of little faders, then send it off to find a book. I just set the sliders on "happy, funny and disturbing" on just about full bore, and it returned this for me (among a few backup choices that also sounded pretty dang good):

Ella Minnow Pea
A monument to celebrate the pangram The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog has been erected on the island where it's creator, Nevin Nollop, was born. As time passes the letters, displayed on ceramic tiles, begin to tumble and the Island Council, to the dismay of the residents, sees this as a message from the grave and excludes the letters from all daily use. A very clever and funny, modern fable. Don't be put off by the quirky language - it's well worth the perseverance.


It's identified by a reader comment, which is cool. I checked amazon, and none of their reviews are that succinct (or even made me want to read the book, particularly.) If you live in the British Isles, you can even (apparently) look to see if the book if available for borrowing.

As if I didn't have enough to read already.

2 Comments:

Blogger Paul said...

That's pretty sweet. I also just wanted to post a comment cause I know what it's like to post and not have anyone comment and then not know if anyone still reads it. But I do.

9:45 AM  
Blogger Danny said...

Brian,
I like new york in June...what about you? I like a broadway tune...what about you?
Have you seen The Fisher King with that bridges fella and the williams boy? It was a good film. Just thought I'd say howdy gangster!

1:47 AM  

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