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Summary: Hilarious fun for an Anglophile
Review: As said previously, this book (and the sibling) are hilarious fun for anglophiles and wordsmiths alike...
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Summary: Where can I find the first one????
Review: Hi, I read this book, every last word of it, and I LOVED IT! It's different. I let my friends read it, too, and then force-fed them all his other books! I love Douglas Adams' writing, so maybe I'm a little biased, but I recommend this book to anybody who likes wit!
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Summary: Not as good as I'd hoped...
Review: I don't feel it's up to Adams' usual standard, nor as good as "sniglets"--remember them? I don't like the idea of using existing words--usually proper nouns. More imagination was needed. And I didn't get the illustrations.
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Summary: good
Review: I have only been able to read this book by uploading it from different websites. However, in response to the question of WHERE CAN I FIND THE FIRST ONE? you already have it. I've seen reviews and summaries that explain that the deeper meaning of liff is just the original meaning of liff but with extra entries. Realizing this has cleared up a lot of confusion on my part, and i hope it helps out others.
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Summary: Deeper meaning of LIFF
Review: The book has become a bible to live a NORMAL life Knowing there are others out there who are sane but strange
Find the Yahoo club site "LIFF AS WE KNOW IT" to wallow in humour. Then send your own efforts (ie photo's and new WORDS)
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Summary: Deeper meaning of LIFF
Review: The book has become a bible to live a NORMAL life Knowing there are others out there who are sane but strange
Find the Yahoo club site "LIFF AS WE KNOW IT" to wallow in humour. Then send your own efforts (ie photo's and new WORDS)
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Summary: Save the language - recycle place names!
Review: The idea behind The Meaning of Liff, first published in 1983, as well as The Deeper Meaning of Liff, which followed seven years later, is actually quite simple. As the authors put it: there are hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no word exists. On the other hand, the world is littered with thousands of spare words doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places.Douglas Adams - the one of the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy fame - and John Lloyd have done their best trying to pair the two. Just for the gusto, here's an example of dictionary entry: Wyoming (ptcpl.vb.) Moving in hurried desperation from one cubicle to another in a public lavatory trying to find one which has a lock on the door, a seat on the bowl and no brown streaks on the seat. Although The Deeper Meaning of Liff is significantly expanded in size over the original, I guess I would choose the latter. While The Meaning of Liff mostly covers place names from the Britain, the expansions seem to be predominantly reaching abroad, resulting in somewhat diluted compendium. After all, there is some logic that English place names are fitting best in an English dictionary, isn't it?
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Summary: The funniest book in the English language
Review: This is among the funniest books I have ever read, as funny as anything else Adams has written, on a par with P. G. Wodehouse and Terry Pratchett. I was disturbed to discover that this book is out of print in the USA. Perhaps the humour is more Anglocentric than I had realised. Much to my relief, it is still in print in the UK and I plan to pick up a copy next time I visit.
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Summary: The funniest book in the English language
Review: This is among the funniest books I have ever read, as funny as anything else Adams has written, on a par with P. G. Wodehouse and Terry Pratchett. I was disturbed to discover that this book is out of print in the USA. Perhaps the humour is more Anglocentric than I had realised. Much to my relief, it is still in print in the UK and I plan to pick up a copy next time I visit.
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