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This isn't really the best book to read from cover-to-cover. It's more of a book to skim through in the odd moments: waiting for a bus, sitting in the waiting area of an emergency room, when the rocketship countdown starts and you've no buttons to press in your little display panel until it begins again, or, perhaps, for the dull bits during a skydiving trip.
What I find more interesting than the individual words -- creative and amusing as they are -- is the fact that all the new words are the names of real locations somewhere on our planet. The tying together of location names to things and actions that don't yet have names is the frosting on the top of the book's cupcake. I will never be able to thing of some of those locations the same again.
What I really would like now is an associated document entitled something like "How We Did It," chronicling the details of creating this book. I imaging that story would be extremely entertaining.
What I find more interesting than the individual words -- creative and amusing as they are -- is the fact that all the new words are the names of real locations somewhere on our planet. The tying together of location names to things and actions that don't yet have names is the frosting on the top of the book's cupcake. I will never be able to thing of some of those locations the same again.
What I really would like now is an associated document entitled something like "How We Did It," chronicling the details of creating this book. I imaging that story would be extremely entertaining.
