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Jun 19, 2017bethany3077 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Welcome to the island nation of Nollop, where language and education are paramount and technology is a mere frivolity. We are named after Nevin Nollop, the creator of the revered pangram: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". Prominently located at our town center in Nollopville is an impressive statue of Mr. Nollop with a cenotaph on which the renowned phrase is inscribed... One day, a tile containing the letter Z falls from the cenotaph, and the High Island Council, believing it a "terrestrial manifestation of Mr. Nollop's wishes", issues an edict banning the use of the 26th letter of the alphabet. The novel continues to chronicle the linguistic and social effects as more letter tiles fall and are subsequently banned from both oral and written use by government edicts. This epistolary and lipogrammatic novel is a fun and quirky read, because as letters fall from the statue, they're eliminated from the book, making it a little challenging yet still interesting to read!