Sorry, Nicholson Baker, but I’ve had quite enough of this sort of thing: Ammon Shea, a sometime furniture mover, gondolier and word collector, has written an oddly inspiring book about reading the whole of the Oxford English Dictionary in one go. I thought A. J. Jacobs had thoroughly mined this gimmick with his tour through [...]
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