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Completely fascinating and so much fun to read! The author manages to take fairly dry information about linguistics, speech, and orthography and turn that information into a history-spanning epic of human ingenuity and tradition.

Just started and this book already has its hooks in me; I love the oral history format.

This book has some of the most hypnotic prose I have ever read in my life.

My quixotic quest to read this 17th-century novel continues apace, aided by the fabulous narration of Tim Pabon and the readable translation of John Rutherford for Penguin Classics. The book is funny, sweeping, and surprisingly fast-paced, although with many side stories from characters such as goatherds, Moors, Catholics, and galley slaves. Quixote is an absolute madman, although more amusing than threatening.