jasonfurman 's review for:

Esio Trot by Roald Dahl

3.0

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Esio Trot (or Tortoise backwards) is a creative little throwaway of a story about a man who woos a woman by tricking her into thinking that a magic spell is growing her tortoise, when really he is swapping out for larger and larger tortoises. But it is funny and sweet and there is something hypnotic about chanting the magic spell (which has all the words backwards, which he claims is tortoise language).