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The Pun Also Rises: How The Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, And Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics (2011)

by John Pollack(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1592406238 (ISBN13: 9781592406234)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Gotham

review 1: This book gives interesting insight on the role of puns in many different languages. This book gave me a greater appreciation of puns and our brains ability to decipher them. (I love Psychology). I never realized how much we, as a society, use puns for so many different things and that not all puns are strictly used to be *ha ha* laughed at. It was a great read, though like some of the things you read, take it with a grain of salt.
review 2: The best part was the introduction where the author recounts his experiences in a pun competition. The first few chapters are a fun tour of the world of puns, but toward the end of the book it kind of fades in quality, and by the end it seems like the author has a pile of 3x5 cards with ideas on them and is merely fleshing ... moreeach one out into a paragraph and stringing them together. I found that disappointing. The idea of the book is much more fun than the book itself, it turned out. less

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