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What is The Polysyllabic Spree?
During a visit to my favorite bookstore, I had the good fortune of spotting in one of the shop’s bargain bins a slightly dog-eared but really cheap copy of the very rare (at least in this side of the planet) The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, the definitive anthology of essays and reviews by one of my favorite authors, Nick Hornby, originally written for his “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” column in The Believer and previously published as three separate volumes, namely The Polysyllabic Spree, Housekeeping vs. The Dirt, and Shakespeare Wrote for Money. While I admit that Hornby’s articles are nowhere near as well-written or as important as, say, Martin Amis’s in his own collection, The War Against Cliché, I’d have to be the dumbest person in the world not to buy it right then and there.
Far more than being deeply insightful, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree was consistently fun to read, and I dare say those descriptions, former and latter both, are what I’d like the anthology’s namesake book blog, that is to say, this blog called The Polysyllabic Spree (which, by the way, can also be accessed via www.thepolysyllabicspree.com), to arrive at being someday.
Who runs this place?
I’m Aldrin Calimlim, 24, male, Filipino. I’m an electronics engineer by profession and a common reader by passion. I’m given to frequent bouts of sesquipedalianism and rhinotillexomania, and I quite like getting e-mails.
