Title: Not very well written for a book about words
Product review: While it is heartening to see a book about the OED on the best-sellers list, I really wish that it had been written with a little more care. What is potentially an engrossing mystery at the heart of the creation of the definitive English lexicon is mired in a hash of choppy sentences and "sesquipedalians" that have been thrown in to make sure the reader knows that the author has in fact looked at the OED at least once in his life, but which more often than not are used in place of a shorter word that would be more appropriate. The bottom line is that this book reads like it was written by a journalist with a good thesaurus (as it was) and not by someone who really cares about words and good writing (as it should have been).
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