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"Since graduating college a decade ago, I’ve become rusty, forgetting a lot of the concepts I had learned.
This book is jogging my memory and introducing me to new concepts.
No one ever told that in mid-life I’d be entertained by reading reference books: At night, I read a few pages from Fowler’s Dictionary too, but I doubt that I will ever read it all, although it’s surprisingly funny at times. 😅" — 4 hours, 1 min ago
"Since graduating college a decade ago, I’ve become rusty, forgetting a lot of the concepts I had learned.
This book is jogging my memory and introducing me to new concepts.
No one ever told that in mid-life I’d be entertained by reading reference books: At night, I read a few pages from Fowler’s Dictionary too, but I doubt that I will ever read it all, although it’s surprisingly funny at times. 😅" — 4 hours, 1 min ago
Derek Bartholomew
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"This is one of the most frustrating but rewarding, bleak but comical, books I’ve ever read.
If I hadn’t read Joyce’s Ulysses before this I don’t know if I would even try to finish this book. But similarly with Joyce, you have to read onwards, and it all starts to come into focus.
The first two chapters were hilarious. But Jethro Furber’s interior monologues are rageful, hateful, obscene. A real villain." — 21 hours, 17 min ago
"This is one of the most frustrating but rewarding, bleak but comical, books I’ve ever read.
If I hadn’t read Joyce’s Ulysses before this I don’t know if I would even try to finish this book. But similarly with Joyce, you have to read onwards, and it all starts to come into focus.
The first two chapters were hilarious. But Jethro Furber’s interior monologues are rageful, hateful, obscene. A real villain." — 21 hours, 17 min ago
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