Reading the OED : One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Shea reads the entire OED and after having climbed that mountain really relates no vista of great discovery. There is a litany of complaints about boring technical terms, eye strain, headaches, noisy library patrons, lists of words mentioned only like un- words, etc. Key features that could be enjoyed suffer in the audiobook edition: "also see" mentions of related words where the definition is not given, the spelling may be not be obvious, and in audiobook mode a dictionary is not typically handy
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