Should You Judge This Book by its Cover?: 100 Fresh Takes on Familiar Sayings and Quotations

by Julian Baggini

Paperback, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

398.9

Genres

Publication

Granta Books (2010), 224 pages

Description

Unpick glib aphorisms and root out cliche with the best-selling author of The Pig that Wants to be Eaten.

User reviews

LibraryThing member seldombites

This book contains a decent selection of proverbs and has the occasional interesting snippet of history. These things are the only things this book has going for it, however. The thought-provoking analysis promised by the blurb is absent in all but a few cases. Interesting to dip into know and

then, but I wouldn't go out of my way to purchase it.

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