Favorite Words of Famous People: A Celebration of Superior Words From Writers, Educators, Scientists, and Humorists [Audiobook] download free by Lewis Burke Frumkes
- Listen audiobook: Favorite Words of Famous People: A Celebration of Superior Words From Writers, Educators, Scientists, and Humorists
- Author: Lewis Burke Frumkes
- Release date: 2011/3/13
- Publisher: MARION STREET PRESS INC.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Funny Books and Stories
- ISBN: 9781933338903
- Rating: 7.37 of 10
- Votes: 621
- Review by: Linda Wagoner
- Review rating: 9.28 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/22
- Duration: 2H4M34S in 256 kbps (33.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-01
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, WMA, FLAC, MPEG4, MP3, MPC, MP4 (compression CPIO, ZIP, AZW3, RAR, Z, GZ)
- Total pages original book: 168
- Includes a PDF summary of 16 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 13M46S (3.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The favorite words of 250 of the best and brightest contemporary thinkers and creators are collected in this volume that no self-respecting word lover should be without. From Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to authors Yann Martel and Nicholson Baker, the writers, scientists, educators, humorists, and celebrities featured in this book write at length about their favorite words and why they are so enamored with them. The entries cover a range of responses, some witty and hilarious, some brilliant and profound, others linguistically clever and poignant. For Mary Higgins Clark it's memory ('the DNA of a writer'); for Arianna Huffington, it's trust ('both unutterably sacred and the old banana-skin joke on a cosmic scale'). Other favorite words include the familiar ( love , zest , goodness ), the unfamiliar ( cthonic , steatopygia , irredentist ), long words ( horripilating ) and short ( sex ), weird words ( jerzoid ), and refreshingly down-to-earth words ( egg ). This cornucopia of words is a frequently funny, sometimes eccentric, and often surprisingly intimate and moving look into personality and language.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Language: History & General Works, Language: Reference & General, Funny Books & Stories, Usage & Grammar Guides
- Download servers: FreakShare, Torrent, 4Shared, MEGA, JumpShare, SendMyWay, BitShare, Mediafire, LimeTorrents. Compressed in CPIO, ZIP, AZW3, RAR, Z, GZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.92 USD
- Dimensions: 139x215x12mm
- Weight: 208g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Oak Park, United States
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