The etymologicon

I bought this book on sale when I was in the UK back in 2016 because it had been recommended by me. I am rather interested in language and especially the history of language and the origin of its words, so I thought this would be a book I'd love to read.

The main reason for why it has taken me this long to actually start reading this book for more than a few minutes is because I found it actually quite boring. On my flight to the airport and on the train from the airport to my town I tried getting into the book but for some reason it didn't speak to me. I was sure that I was missing something and swore that I would start reading it as soon as I'd get home — but I didn't. Therefore, more than a year later, I started reading it again and finishing it felt kind of like a chore to me.

First of all, I really like the subject of this book and the author tries writing it in a rather amusing way which led to me chuckling every so often. However, it seems to me that the author tries too hard to make the jokes sound funny most of the time and it also seems as if this is the only way for him to get readers engaged. To me however, the style of writing was not engaging at all and quite boring which meant I wasn't able to read more than just a couple of pages most of the time. Another problem which I've had with this book was that I personally didn't think the words he used to be very interesting. Their story was sometimes a bit meh and.