DreamSE22 reviewed on 5/17/2006

This audiobook was so boring that I couldn't even finish it. The subject sounds boring to begin with, but it was unabridged and only about $5.99 when I bought it. Now I know why! I got about halfway through the second disc and had to shut it off because they started talking less about history, and more about lists of words that were derived from other words. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........

This is the second book I have read by Simon Winchester (the first being The Professor and the Madman) and I don't think I'll be reading anything else written by him ever again. His style is too boring and drab for me.

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