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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
4 reviews
thesonnetsilence's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
2.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Medical trauma, Body horror, and Self harm
Moderate: Murder
kelsea's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Mental illness, Murder, Body horror, and Self harm
Minor: War and Suicide
ireadinbed's review
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
I can see why this book is so well lauded. The story is impossible to stop reading and it almost feels like it is intentionally cribbing the style of the dictionary. It's easy to devour and I found myself very loved by the way a person in such dire circumstances was able to contribute to scholarship in such important ways.
But I didn't like a few sections where the author dramatized or presented dramatized accounts only to later say 'except that's not how it happened' it felt cheap.
It also felt weirdly graphic in how it described Minor's pedophilic obsessions (not in the subjects own words but as the authors descriptions of young girls) and honestly I have no idea why an editor didn't ask him to change it
But I didn't like a few sections where the author dramatized or presented dramatized accounts only to later say 'except that's not how it happened' it felt cheap.
It also felt weirdly graphic in how it described Minor's pedophilic obsessions (not in the subjects own words but as the authors descriptions of young girls) and honestly I have no idea why an editor didn't ask him to change it
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical trauma and Mental illness
Moderate: Murder
Minor: Sexual content
beulah_devaney's review
dark
informative
sad
slow-paced
4.0
Just as entertaining and tragic as it sounds. <i>The Professor</i> is about one of publishing's most enduring urban myths: the time the editor of the Oxford Dictionary discovered his chief contributor was resident in a London psychiatric hospital. It's incredibly entertaining and the sections on the history of dictionaries as a form of cultural colonialism is especially interesting.
Content warnings: as you've probably guessed from the title, Winchester talks about everyone who isn't a white wealthy man as if they were some unique, vaguely repulsive alien species. Stand by for racism, sexism, abelism, and in depth discussion of body horror and self-harm.
Content warnings: as you've probably guessed from the title, Winchester talks about everyone who isn't a white wealthy man as if they were some unique, vaguely repulsive alien species. Stand by for racism, sexism, abelism, and in depth discussion of body horror and self-harm.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm
Minor: Bullying, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Violence
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