Daniel Santos rated The Professor and the Madman: 5 stars
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the …
Me considero um lifelong learner, que adora livros, principalmente os de ficção científica, fantasia e thrillers. Me interesso por leitura, tecnologia, lean manufacturing e lean IT, data science, plataformas digitais e business development, note taking, gestão do conhecimento, idiomas e seriados de TV. Eu também sou um explorador ocasional de dungeons em roguelikes e motorista de ETS2.
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The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the …
Nice trilogy when taking into account the love story between Tengo and Aomame: a love born in their childhood days which resisted time and different worlds.
Even though I liked the wrap up, I felt the books unnecessarily long and composed at times by long boring narrative which made me feel like dropping the book, dragging myself towards the end. No wonder I abandoned this book almost 4 years ago and just picked it again because I challenged myself to finish my TBR list.
As a result, I don’t feel like reading other books by the author.
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What a great trilogy that was! Perfectly ended, by the way. I believe this is certainly one of King’s masterpieces.
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The book is very quick to read, and although interesting, its brevity makes it shallow, not adding many different insights to myself, as I was already familiar with the subject. May be a nice option for starters, though, as the author writes in a very accessible manner.