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Word by Word
- The Secret Life of Dictionaries
- ナレーター: Kory Stamper
- 再生時間: 9 時間 48 分
- カテゴリー: 教育・学習, 単語・言語・文法
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Making Sense
- 著者: David Crystal
- ナレーター: David Crystal
- 再生時間: 9 時間 4 分
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In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms such as preposition and conjunction now often confound children and adults alike.
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The New York Times Book of the Dead
- 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People
- 著者: William McDonald - editor
- ナレーター: Ron Butler, Gemma Dawson, Allyson Johnson, 、その他
- 再生時間: 54 時間 54 分
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The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the audiobook with exclusive online access to 10,000 more of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published. The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to, not only see who died but to read some of the most inspiring, insightful, often funny, and elegantly written stories celebrating the lives of the men and women who have influenced our world.
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The Narrow Corridor
- States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- 著者: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- ナレーター: Stephen Graybill
- 再生時間: 23 時間 44 分
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By the authors of the international best seller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.
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Sophie's World
- A Novel About the History of Philosophy
- 著者: Jostein Gaarder
- ナレーター: Simon Vance
- 再生時間: 16 時間 53 分
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One day, 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find two notes in her mailbox, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- 著者: David Wallace-Wells
- ナレーター: David Wallace-Wells
- 再生時間: 9 時間
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An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it - the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action.
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Making Sense
- 著者: David Crystal
- ナレーター: David Crystal
- 再生時間: 9 時間 4 分
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In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms such as preposition and conjunction now often confound children and adults alike.
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The New York Times Book of the Dead
- 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People
- 著者: William McDonald - editor
- ナレーター: Ron Butler, Gemma Dawson, Allyson Johnson, 、その他
- 再生時間: 54 時間 54 分
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The obituary page of The New York Times is a celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the audiobook with exclusive online access to 10,000 more of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published. The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to, not only see who died but to read some of the most inspiring, insightful, often funny, and elegantly written stories celebrating the lives of the men and women who have influenced our world.
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The Narrow Corridor
- States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- 著者: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- ナレーター: Stephen Graybill
- 再生時間: 23 時間 44 分
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By the authors of the international best seller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.
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Sophie's World
- A Novel About the History of Philosophy
- 著者: Jostein Gaarder
- ナレーター: Simon Vance
- 再生時間: 16 時間 53 分
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One day, 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find two notes in her mailbox, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- 著者: David Wallace-Wells
- ナレーター: David Wallace-Wells
- 再生時間: 9 時間
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An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it - the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action.
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Enlightenment Now
- The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
- 著者: Steven Pinker
- ナレーター: Arthur Morey
- 再生時間: 19 時間 49 分
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Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West but worldwide.
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Rise and Kill First
- The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
- 著者: Ronen Bergman
- ナレーター: Rob Shapiro
- 再生時間: 25 時間 58 分
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In this pause-resisting, eye-opening audiobook, journalist and military analyst Ronen Bergman - praised by David Remnick as 'arguably [Israel's] best investigative reporter' - offers a riveting inside account of the targeted killing programs: their successes, their failures, and the moral and political price exacted on the men and women who approved and carried out the missions.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
- 著者: Delia Owens
- ナレーター: Cassandra Campbell
- 再生時間: 12 時間 12 分
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For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life - until the unthinkable happens.
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The Puppet Show
- Washington Poe, Book 1
- 著者: M. W. Craven
- ナレーター: John Banks
- 再生時間: 9 時間 47 分
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A serial killer is burning people alive in the Lake District's prehistoric stone circles. He leaves no clues, and the police are helpless. When his name is found carved into the charred remains of the third victim, disgraced detective Washington Poe is brought back from suspension and into an investigation he wants no part of. He is reluctantly partnered with brilliant but socially awkward civilian analyst Tilly Bradshaw, and the mismatched pair uncover a trail that only he is meant to see. The elusive killer has a plan, and for some reason Poe is part of it.
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The Nickel Boys
- 著者: Colson Whitehead
- ナレーター: JD Jackson, Colson Whitehead
- 再生時間: 6 時間 46 分
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The Nickel Boys is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning best seller The Underground Railroad, in which he dramatises another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clear-sighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college.
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The Vanishing Half
- 著者: Brit Bennett
- ナレーター: Shayna Small
- 再生時間: 11 時間 34 分
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The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white and her white husband knows nothing of her past.
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People, Power, and Profits
- Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
- 著者: Joseph E. Stiglitz
- ナレーター: Sean Runnette
- 再生時間: 9 時間 10 分
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We all have the sense that the American economy - and its government - tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation is dire. A few corporations have come to dominate entire sectors of the economy, contributing to skyrocketing inequality and slow growth.
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The Secrets We Kept
- A Novel
- 著者: Lara Prescott
- ナレーター: Carlotta Brentan, Cynthia Farrell, Mozhan Marnò, 、その他
- 再生時間: 10 時間 55 分
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At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world - using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets out of powerful men. Irina is a complete novice, and is under Sally's tutelage....
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The Order of Time
- Narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch
- 著者: Carlo Rovelli
- ナレーター: Benedict Cumberbatch
- 再生時間: 4 時間 18 分
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Time is a mystery that does not cease to puzzle us. Philosophers, artists and poets have long explored its meaning while scientists have found that its structure is different from the simple intuition we have of it. From Boltzmann to quantum theory, from Einstein to loop quantum gravity, our understanding of time has been undergoing radical transformations. Time flows at a different speed in different places, the past and the future differ far less than we might think, and the very notion of the present evaporates in the vast universe.
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Reading with Patrick
- A Teacher, a Student and the Life-Changing Power of Books
- 著者: Michelle Kuo
- ナレーター: Michelle Kuo
- 再生時間: 8 時間 29 分
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A memoir of race, inequality and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student who was jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta. As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African American teenager named Patrick and his classmates. For the first time, these kids began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their town....
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- 著者: Michael J. Sandel
- ナレーター: Michael J. Sandel
- 再生時間: 11 時間 17 分
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.
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How Contagion Works
- Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises
- 著者: Paolo Giordano
- ナレーター: David Thorpe
- 再生時間: 1 時間 7 分
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In concise, immediate prose, Italian physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world: why it matters, how it impacts us, how we must react. Writing from his home in Rome as Italy implements the largest peace-time lockdown ever recorded in a democratic country, Giordano expands his focus to other forms of contagion linked to this epidemic - fake news, the environmental crisis, nationalism and xenophobia, our lack of imagination in promoting a new kind of global community.
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Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must-listen for word mavens.
While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing them is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. With sharp wit and irreverence, Kory Stamper cracks open the complex, obsessive world of lexicography - from the agonizing decisions about what and how to define to the knotty questions of usage in an ever-changing language. She explains why small words are the most difficult to define (have you ever tried to define is?), how it can take nine months to define a single word, and how our biases about language and pronunciation can have tremendous social influence. Throughout, Stamper brings to life the hallowed halls (and highly idiosyncratic cubicles) of Merriam-Webster, a world inhabited by quirky, erudite individuals who quietly shape the way we communicate. A sure delight for all lovers of words, Word by Word might also quietly improve listeners' grasp and use of the English language.
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- R. Stern
- 2017/04/24
Kory should narrate more Audible books!
What made the experience of listening to Word by Word the most enjoyable?
I loved the author's, ( Kory Stamper), modulation and lilt and energy and explanations and rants about words like "irregardless" and "it's/its" and full throttle pronunciations and expertise! She wasn't arrogant, she spoke to the listener as if she were a friend explaining her chosen field.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Word by Word?
Her explanation about how people who apply and are lucky enough to get a job like hers chose it so they never have to talk to people!!! More than ever, people want that!!! Then she explained why SHE was chosen to respond to grievances.
Have you listened to any of Kory Stamper’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I have NEVER heard such an enthusiastic reader. I wish she narrated more books! ANY BOOKS!!
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
I think I liked her honesty about coming from Colorado and having to adjust to the Mid-Atlantic pronunciations and jargon.
Any additional comments?
As a long ago linguistics minor...I always learned that all we have to do is make ourselves understood even if we don't spell perfectly. But it is an unappreciated art to GET IT RIGHT!!!
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- Yaqoub
- 2017/09/18
Discover the secret world of words and dictionries
Where does Word by Word rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
One of the top books I've listened to so far.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Word by Word?
When the author explained the chaos surrounding the new definition entry of the word "marriage".
What about Kory Stamper’s performance did you like?
Amazing! Simply amazing.
If you could give Word by Word a new subtitle, what would it be?
The secrets of the hidden worlds of dictionaries and words.
Any additional comments?
Why would a geologist, whose native language is not English care about how dictionaries are made? Let me tell you a small story. The official twitter account of Merriam-Webster, the dictionary company retweeted a tweet by Kori Stamper. I had no clue who that person was. I was curious to know. I check Mrs. Stamper's profile and it said that she was the author of the book "word by word". I did a quick search about the book and ended up buying the audio version through audible.com.I care about words. What words to use and when. I, however, thought that dictionaries are just dictionaries; words do not change. Why would they? Apparently, words have a secret world of their own. If you want to know more about it, you have to read/listen to the book.Mrs. Kori's performance was from the heart. It's obvious that she has a passion for what she wrote about. A passion that will certainly get the listeners engaged. After listening to the book, I watched a couple of videos for Mrs. Stamper explaining some words/phrases e.g. irregardless, cannot care less. Overall, it was an enriching experience. Highly recommended.
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- Cheval Force Opp
- 2018/11/14
I thought this would be educational and boring
This was a hoot! Loved Kory's narration, you can feel her love of the topic. The stories were funny, odd, informative and curious, sometimes all at once. Recommend for anyone who has ever used a dictionary. My action movie husband even enjoyed it.
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- Zachary Littrell
- 2018/08/07
How The Sausage Gets Made At Merriam Webster
Kory Stamper, I hope you read these reviews, because golly-day would I like to thank you. When I heard that Stamper wrote a book about dictionaries, it was a definite no-brainer to get my hands on this.
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries is all about how the sausage gets made. With a little bit of memoir mixed in, Stamper celebrates the English language and the cat-herding task of trying to define what the hell its words mean. There's a redemption story for 'irregardless,' an examination of its vs it's, war stories of defining boondoggles like 'surfboard,' and lots of playful (and sometimes pointed) jabs at attempts to moralize and police a living, breathing language.
Stamper brings the same friendly attitude she has used in Merriam-Webster's "Ask the Editor" video series since 2010 (which made me into an instant fan. I could listen all day about the curious case of 'octopus' and its many plurals). She is also definitely not afraid to wield her dorky sense of humor for good or for evil -- your mileage may vary with that, since it's repeatedly bonked on your head that this book was authored by a geeky introvert...but I personally found it genuine. Any flaw this book may have is overridden by the delight of reading someone who is truly in love with what they do for a living.
I sure hope Stamper writes more, because she has a knack as an educator. It was also nice of her to take a break from her group of fellow word gnomes tinkering away somewhere, hissing at noises and prospecting newspaper article clippings for linguistic gold, and then share with us a little bit of that gold.
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- Shauna
- 2018/04/13
A jaw dropping revelation Into the love of English
This audio book took me by complete surprise I found myself giggling and grinning stupidly during the entire discussion of the use of words I used correctly and incorrectly. I will never look at the words like irregardless, nude, or surfboard the same. Who knew each word is only the tip of an iceberg of compelling and real very human drama. This book felt like a very thoughtful and personal Valentine. Thank you
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- J. Sierra
- 2017/04/22
Great insider information
What did you love best about Word by Word?
I got an insider's view of how Merriam-Webster's Dictionary is "built." It was fascinating.
What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
It was read by the author, and she was by turns compelling, funny, awkward, and annoying. Sort of like most of the people in my Ph.D. program.
What does Kory Stamper bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
She has a good instinct for comedy, plus experience in the trenches. She is very good at explaining obscure points and giving funny examples. Lots of naughty words, too, if you like that.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
It's not that kind of book. I enjoyed hearing about the sorts of complaints the editors receive from the public. And the book reinforced my belief that people are really, really interested in words.
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- Stephanie
- 2019/04/11
Interesting but felt like an essay trying to be a book
The first half of the book was interesting. A great and amusing peek in to a world we average folks don’t see and don’t really know exists. Then the author goes on and on about the process on some specific words and it gets old fast. The discussion later in the book about interaction with public letter writing campaigns was interesting.
It quickly because clear that the author was indoctrinated in Marxist feminist ideology. It wasn’t preachy in the book but every so often it would leap out and slobber all over the reader like an overly friendly mastiff.
I enjoyed the majority of the book. I did find the author’s reading to be wooden and unnatural at times. Honestly, most of the time. Maybe it was the editing of the audiobook that did it. She was far more animated engaging in her interview on Penn’s Sunday School.
If you want to know how the dictionary is made it’s a good buy.
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- River H.
- 2018/10/19
Absolutely Delightful
This book is so smart, hilarious, informative, and honest -- I loved it. And even though she is not a professional narrator (and authors are often the worst choice for narrating their own books), in this case, it's perfect. Kory Stamper nails it. I cannot imagine anyone else narrating her personal, sardonic, candid, sometimes acerbic prose as well as she does. She is brilliant, and I loved the fascinating insights into the theory of lexicography, the intricacies of creating dictionaries, and the details of day-to-day life at Merriam-Webster. The whole package -- her narrating, the content, her writing style -- is more than the sum of its parts. I highly recommend it!
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- jen chad
- 2018/06/26
Perfect teachers gift
I loved this book. It is the story on how people behind the dictionary create our narrative of the English language. It is funny and made want to buy a updated, unabridged dictionary. Highly recommend this book to everyone who reads, speaks and uses the English language.
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- Seattle Girl
- 2020/02/26
I'm FINALLY Able to Embrace Saying Irregardless
And you can too!
I recommend this book almost as much as some of my beloved fiction favorites. Kory Stamper does a great job bringing her story to life through her narration. It's almost like an expose on the business of being in the dictionary business.
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- Abigail WD
- 2019/09/15
Highly recommended for all word nerds
If you're a lover, or even just a user, of dictionaries, then you should listen to this to find out just how much work goes into these volumes. Interesting, informative, clearly spoken, well-produced. Even if the only dictionaries I'm buying these days are bilingual or historical ones, I now have a far better appreciation of what's involved in producing them.