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libraryrobin's review against another edition
1.0
So. Freaking. Long.
Liked the premise. It might have been a fun read but no, it was torture.
Liked the premise. It might have been a fun read but no, it was torture.
cheryl6of8's review
3.0
A little book on language errors that are amusing and sometimes more apt than you would expect. I enjoyed many of these, but found that the best ones were at the beginning and the concept and originality seemed to be less interesting as the book went on. Perhaps I would have enjoyed it more if I had not tried to read the whole thing in one fell swoop -- little tastes would have gone down better.
libraryrobin's review
1.0
So. Freaking. Long.
Liked the premise. It might have been a fun read but no, it was torture.
Liked the premise. It might have been a fun read but no, it was torture.
renee_pompeii's review
3.0
The Roz Chast illustrations were my favorite part, but this was entertaining for certain.
bethb3's review
4.0
This is good in small doses. Don't try to read it straight through, like I did. Other than that, I really enjoyed it and laughed a lot.
glitterandtwang's review
3.0
Some interesting linguistic slips, but the book was kind of hard to read due to Menaker's insistence on connecting the last sentence of each explanation with the "svelte" on the following page. Chast's illustrations are very cute, but I wished there were more of them.
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