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Book Review of Word Freak. Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitve Scrabble Players.

Word Freak. Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitve Scrabble Players.
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I love trivia, I love word games, and I love non-fiction, documentary-style books. That should have been enough to make me really love this book, but I didn't. There were bits here and there I liked, lots of trivia I found interesting, but in between was a LOT of swearing, boring parts, and people who were disturbingly odd. The boring parts included play by play recitations - I played this word for this many points, he played this word for this many points, and so on. Sometimes lists of words played, usually without definitions. I had to push myself to finish, and was heartily glad when I was done with it, just to BE done with it.