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Title: Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit & Wisdom From History's Greatest Wordsmiths by Mardy Grothe ISBN: 0-06-053699-3 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What a gem of a square little book
Comment: I laughed and thought and laughed and thought a little more reading this delight of a bitty book. It's even hilarious that it is broken up into chapters like "oxymoronic insults (and a few compliments)". Paradoxical language positively intrigues me. The compilation here is like no book of quotes you've ever read but it is a book of quotes. Quotes that work because they don't work. Backwards uses of words that when used together make perfect sense but no sense at all. Here are a couple of my favorites:
"He has not a single redeeming defect." Benjamin Disraeli on William Gladstone
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my Education." Mark Twain
This book is quick, juicy and a smile maker; a keeper.
Rating: 5
Summary: Depth Charges for the Mind
Comment: Word lovers find an immediate friend in Dr. Mardy Grothe, for in his latest book, Oxymoronica-Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History's Greatest Wordsmiths, he has labored long to prepare a banquet for their absolute delight. Psychologist and business consultant may be his profession - and a demanding profession it is - but Dr. Grothe always finds time for his chief passion, which is the love of language. In this book, he shares the fruits of many years of collecting quotations, concentrating on those of a peculiar type-the paradoxical and oxymoronic-comprehended in his newly coined term "oxymoronica."
This book is no quick read. When you discover a fine wine, do you gulp it down? Or do you prefer to savor it, to prolong the pleasure, knowing that even when at last you have finished, you can return for many more unhurried sessions. Such is the experience of reading this book. You may open it at random (if you are an unsystematic reader like me) and discover a treasure like this one from Groucho Marx: "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." Then you might laugh, but more often than not you start thinking and finding out there was something true about the thought, something that almost escaped your attention until the paradoxical twist brought it out.
What also impresses you is the broad range of the quotations, historically and culturally, from Confucius to George Carlin, arranged in fourteen different categories encompassing many if not most areas of your experience. What you find here is a tour de force, leading at least this reader to a conclusion - which itself is a paradox - that you will better understand yourself and your experience through paradox. I will not try to convince the skeptic (I was a skeptic myself), except to say that I am so glad that I experienced (so much more than "read") this book. Try it! Just maybe a few depth charges in your mind will clear your head!
Rating: 5
Summary: Entertaining, Useful and and a Pleasure to Read!
Comment: I loved this book! If you are interested in the clever and inadvertently clever use of language, you will enjoy Oxymoronica. The chapters are organized into general categories and I especially enjoyed the ones on Politics and Family Life. I think the book would be an excellent resource for attorneys, pastors, teachers and anyone interested in public speaking.
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Title: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss ISBN: 1592400876 Publisher: Gotham Books Pub. Date: 12 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less), The by John M. Shanahan ISBN: 0060194111 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You by Mardy Grothe ISBN: 0142000574 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Explainer by Slate Magazine ISBN: 1400034264 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 09 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Poplorica : A Popular History of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore that Shaped Modern America by Martin J. Smith, Patrick J. Kiger ISBN: 0060535318 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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