Read Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, And Spirits Of Letters, Words, And Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, And Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, And Essences; With Examples Of Their Usage Foul And Savory (2008)
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, And Spirits Of Letters, Words, And Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, And Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, And Essences; With Examples Of Their Usage Foul And Savory (2008) - Plot & Excerpts
Disclaimer: I did not finish this book. I won't rate it because that wouldn't be fair....Truthfully, I smile when I hear Roy Blount Jr is a guest on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. However, as Roy even says himself, this is not a book to be read cover to cover. It is a book to be picked up and dabbled in. I read (cover to cover) a book like this once - The Meaning of Tingo - and I did really like it, it just took awhile as it is like reading a dictionary. A fun dictionary, but one nonetheless. I think if I could have taken this out of the library longer (I've already had it for 3 months), I might have enjoyed it. However, as the library lady says, "ma'am, you need to give someone else a chance..." At first the book is clever but it gets old really fast. It's just Blount making a bunch of puns about this favorite words and occasionally going into the etymology. There is only one joke that saved this book from a one star rating."A chicken and an egg are lying in bed having a post-coital cigarette. A disgruntled looking egg looks at the chicken and says, 'Well, that settles it'."I did not think that joke was funny, but I thought it was brilliant.
What do You think about Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, And Spirits Of Letters, Words, And Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, And Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, And Essences; With Examples Of Their Usage Foul And Savory (2008)?
This is a great one to listen to! Roy Blount Jr. just romps his way through it.
—bluuu
Pausing after "L" - have to return to library - will request again after July
—kazzy
The best time I've ever had with words! What a fun book!
—Micha
I just started reading it but I really like it.
—Jessica
