mydreamsaresilent 's review for:

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

3.0

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Solid 3.5. This book feels like the embodiment of "this meeting could have been an email." But for all that, I learned a lot, it was engrossing, and when the author wasn't running around in circles, I found his writing style incredibly eloquent. (Oddly, I felt the acknowledgedments to be the most tactfully and engagingly written section overall.) The detailed research angle is mostly what hooked me. I'm a sucker for history well sought out.