Passing Go: Collect $200 $200 Million

By Homer Dowdy

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403309442
• ISBN13: 9781403309440
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: 1st Book Library
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Passing Go: Collect $200 Million, by Homer Dowdy

Anyone who has enjoyed O. Henry's "Gift of the Magi" -- and who hasn't? -- will enjoy this story, too. It is replete with insightful humor, situations with which most of us can identify, irony, and a surprise ending with a moral. I had previously read two of Homer Dowdy's non-fiction books, "Christ's Witchdoctor" and "Out of the Jaws of the Lion," about missionary experiences in British Guiana and the Congo, respectfully. In those, he displayed his reporter's talent for getting all the facts and putting them into a gripping and cohesive narrative. In "Passing Go" he demonstrates his versatility with a totally different genre.

Passing Go: Collect $200 Million

If you enjoyed O. Henry's classic, "The Gift of the Magi" -- and who didn't? -- you'll thoroughly enjoy the humor and irony that pervade this well crafted novel. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. I had previously read two of Homer Dowdy's non-fiction missionary books, "Christ's Witchdoctor" and "Out of the Jaws of the Lion," in which he had displayed his in-depth research skills and superior journalistic instincts to report on events in the mission fields of British Guiana and the Congo. This book reveals his versatility. In a delightful departure, it contains characters and situations with which almost anyone can identify. Not surprisingly, the story also delivers a clear moral and does so in a memorable way. It could readily be adapted for a screenplay.