Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndropwllllandysiliogogogoch [Kindle Edition]

Piso Mojado (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

You'll love this book, a heart-warming but unusual story, with a wonderful female heroine. Really, you'll love this ebook. There's adventure, romance, philosophy, humor, and discovery. Except for the Welsh place names and a few Welsh words, this book is written entirely in English, and is suitable for all ages. It's a small ebook, capable of being read in less than a day, with a valuable lesson about being too caught up in the less important issues of our lives. I do not want to give away any of the surprises of the book, but there are a great many conundrums posed by this story, not the least of which is how in the world do the inhabitants of the village named in the title manage such feats of memory? I have italicized the few Welsh words (except the village name) in order to make the first few pages more readable. I've also abbreviated most of the Welsh in order to shrink the book from its original 40,000 pages. (Seven spell-checkers had burned out on the original draft.) NONE of the original English text has been omitted. After the necessary set-up, I think any reader will find this inspiring story smooth sailing and simple to comprehend. And, as Welsh villagers say, this book is truly "llrtrglllprllsrrll".

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 121 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B006HU829S
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled

More About the Author

I hope you have enjoyed my books, short stories, and children's stories.

I came to Amazon from the traditional publishing industry. Much of my correspondence to agents or publishers was never returned, despite my dutiful enclosure of the SASE (self-addressed-stamped-envelope). Several times I received rejection letters for books that weren't mine. I tell the story about receiving a yellowed novel by Samuel Clemens, and returning it to the publisher with the note, "This time the rumors of my death ARE true." The story is false, but the picture it provides is quite accurate.

I was traditionally trained as a writer. I had excellent teachers, some of whom warned me about keeping a safe distance from my own characters. Let me clearly delineate the difference between my characters and myself. I have in my adulthood tried to be a good person above all else, a blood donor, a clean-the-neighborhood volunteer, a volunteer toy-maker, a join-the-good-neighbors-building-the-house person, and so on. I could write about this life. You might even politely read some of it...

On the other hand, people like Captain Braveheart and Captain Heartbrave, Maddie from somewhere in the stars, Tom Paine the pain-in-the-bum, young Olga who leaves her Stalinist-era instructor to teach the savages in Great Britain (and me, at one time) about the great Russian playwright 'Shekspeare'...these people currently have more entertaining tales to tell than I do. It's fun to put ourselves in the shoes of over-the-top beings, if only for a brief time.

I can write a serious piece, if I feel some issue is of great importance and neglected. But often I spur exchanges by being lighter. I remember a gathering of women in the Netherlands reading "Upper and Middle Maroo" I had brought to a Dutch on-line chatroom and beginning to vent (probably for hours--I left, totally shocked that I'd hit a nerve) about all the ways their man loved their dog more than their woman. I love dogs. But do I believe the philosophy promoted in this story? Of course not. It made me laugh. I hope it makes others laugh.

That succinctly sums my admittedly shallow philosophy toward much of my work.