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Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World
“Ridiculous book supposedly about the spread of the alphabet, but really about anything but that. This author hasn’t found a tangent he didn’t want to go off on. At any given point, I couldn’t figure out if the author was talking about the purported subject, or just telling some random story about a…”
Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life
“I really wanted to like this book, because I really wanted to understand this book. But I didn’t. I tried, and I have a lot of background with the concepts – information theory and such. But, damn, this book is out there. It’s very ambitious. It starts off talking about mainstream information…”
The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs, & Pictograms
“ Interesting, full of pictures, but it got ponderous. Weirdly long, because it’s basically a picture book, but with a lot of text, so you spend a lot of time starting and ending sections, and looking at captions. You don’t really get in a narrative flow. Almost a coffee table book, really. ”