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>I loved this book!
I'm glad to hear it. Personally, I like my reference books to be rather more useful, and my humour books to be funnier.
>You may complain about the price, but perhaps you haven't looked at the cost of university text books lately and many of them are just as expensive.
Yes, they are. Surprisingly, that is because they are better researched, have evidential references to their source matierial, and are produced to a high academic standard. None of which criteria apply to this rather odd little rant.
>I would rather spend my money on this little gem any day.
Each to their own.
>I delighted in the poke in the belly of academia, and academia certainly needs it.
It needs serious criticism, maybe - this, as I said, is an ill-informed and unreferenced rant by a person who seems to have a megalithic chip on his shoulder.
>Parts of the book are hilarious; it planted delightlfully absurd images in myhead.
Mine too.
>I have to adimit it does take a certain amont of intelligence to read.
Which you are demonstrating that you have, I assume?
>If you enjoy the english language (wherever it came from) you will appreciate the sophisticated use of language.
I prefer the sophisticated use of language not to include rudeness and bigotry.
>I read it in a weekend but I will think about the points it raises for years.
Good for you. May I recommend that during those years you actually learn a little Anglo-saxon? It isn't that difficult to grasp the basics, really. Not if you are as intelligent as you wish to appear.
Blessings on your path.
Jez :-)
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