Title: disappoint\vb: to fail to fulfill the expectation or hope ~
Product review: The title is misleading as this book is really the about the history of the Oxford English Dictionary. The so-called "madman", one of the major contributors to the massive project, does not appear as often as I would have liked. He is a tragic figure, a criminally insane American surgeon who was housed at England's Broadmoor asylum for the majority of his life. Mr. Winchester occasionally uses him as a vehicle to enhance the tale of the lugubrious task of the compilation of one of the English-speaking world's greatest literary achievements. In selecting the book, I'd looked forward to the surgeon's story rather than tiresome text, dates and definitions. The latter, alas, is what I found.
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