The Super Size Me of lexicography

Thanks to Library Boy for linking to an interesting book review by Nicholson Baker:

Ammon Shea, a sometime furniture mover, gondolier and word collector, has written an oddly inspiring book about reading the whole of the Oxford English Dictionary in one go.
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Months in, Shea arrives — back-aching, crabby, page-blind — at Chapter N. “Some days I feel as if I do not actually speak the English language,” he writes, his verbal cortex overflowing. “It is,” he observes, “like trying to remember all the trees one sees through the window of a train.” Once he stares for a while, amazed, at the word glove. “I find myself wondering why I’ve never seen this odd term that describes such a common article of clothing.”

Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages sounds like a great read for those of us who enjoyed The Professor and the Madman. I can't wait to get a copy.