I Love Me, Vol. 1: S. Wordrow's Palindrome Encyclopedia

By Wordrow S and Michael Donner

Book Overview

S. Wordrow's Palindrome Encyclopedia revealed and interpreted by Michael Donner. "Packs a record-breaking 35,000 cross-referenced palindromes into a tongue-in-cheek reference book that is a must-have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565121090
• ISBN13: 9781565121096
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

An exhaustive and amusing effort-- impressive

Donner deserves high praise for having compiled this item-- I enjoy consulting it from time to time, and my son picks it up when he's looking for a chuckle. Others (below) criticize it for perhaps containing too many examples, and some that seem borderline, but I appreciate the full gamut. Is this book for everyone? No, clearly not-- word nuts may only represent a tiny corner of the world, but we need such books to keep us amused! This one more than fills the bill.

An outstanding linguistic mind-trip

Word-gamers, punners, palindromists, and the simply weird will enjoy this book. It's full of mind-twisting and paradigm-bending palindromes, some of which are old chestnuts (such as Napoleon's lament "Able was ere I saw Elba" or the more complicated "'Naomi, sex at noon taxes', I moan") while others are truly bizarre. Moreover, the author plucks palindromes out of heretofore unexplored territory (airport codes, geographical locations, and the like).Interestingly, the book is not limited to palindromes; it also features some anagrams as well as word-squares.Don't expect to read this in one sitting. Your mind will turn to mush if you try to do so!