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The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus by Joshua Kendall
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davidnpalla in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 26 July 2008 (Jul 27, 2008, 8:21am)

Finished The Man Who Made Lists, the biography of the man who wrote the first Roget's Thesaurus - Peter Mark Roget. Very interesting! Today I will begin Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 2012 The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck.

davidnpalla in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 19 July 2008 (Jul 21, 2008, 9:16am)

I am reading The Man who made Lists by Joshua Kendall, a biography of Peter Roget, the guy who wrote Roget's Thesaurus. I've been on a biography kick lately... I love Cormac McCarthy's style of writing, for me he is not only emotional but highly visual. The Road is heartbreaking but I ...

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