Thursday, January 15, 2015

The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce

Summary: In a nutshell, this book is a collection of snarky definitions interspersed with some poetry relevant to those words.

Comments: A number of the definitions are incredibly amusing, some aren't, and some probably made more sense a hundred years ago before some of the context was lost to the mists of time. I marked some of my favorites so that in the future I can skim the book looking for the amusing parts as opposed to read it cover to cover as I did over the last couple months. I'm not sure what the hit to miss ratio is for how many of the definitions I actually found amusing, but I think it was worth getting for the good ones.

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