false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175392981m/511205.jpg 511205 2 An "exaltation of larks"? Yes! And a "leap of leopards", a "parliament of owls", an "ostentation of peacocks", a "smack of jellyfish", and a "murder of crows"! For those who have ever wondered if the familiar "pride of lions" and "gaggle of geese" were only the tip of a linguistic iceberg, James Lipton has provided the definitive answer: here are hundreds of equally pithy, and often poetic, terms unearthed by Mr. Lipton in the Books of Venery that were the constant study of anyone who aspired to the title of gentleman in the fifteenth century. When Mr. Lipton's painstaking research revealed that five hundred years ago the terms of venery had already been turned into the Game of Venery, he embarked on an odyssey that has given us a "slouch of models", a "shrivel of critics", an "unction of undertakers", a "blur of Impressionists", a "score of bachelors", and a "pocket of quarterbacks". This ultimate edition of An Exaltation of Larks is Mr. Lipton's brilliant answer to the assault on language and literacy in the last decades of the twentieth century. In it you will find more than 1,100 resurrected or newly minted contributions to that most endangered of all species, our language, in a setting of 250 witty, beautiful, and remarkably apt engravings. 499201 1991 An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition total:93|5:30|4:29|3:30|2:3|1:1| 93 363 166 29 4 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1983 Sat Jan 17 04:47:57 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 13:40:58 -0800 2009
Well, there's so much to forgive James Lipton for. But in my fantasy, when he is wheeled before the tribunal for the sundry crimes against humanity perpetrated during "Inside the Actors Studio" (with J...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 04:03:41 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 04:07:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 10:15:58 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 10:15:58 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun Jan 04 09:46:36 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 09 13:38:42 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 09:46:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 22:00:47 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 22:08:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 30 19:43:13 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 19:44:59 -0700 2009
I can hear James Lipton saying it now. And this book is fascinating. I would have awarded it 5 stars, except for the fact that this is a difficult book to read through; it must be picked up every so often and randomly opened. But what you find can be interes...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 14 08:51:02 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 08:51:11 -0700 2008 aeolist: (EE-uh-list) a pompous, windy bore who pretends to have inspiration

blatteroon: a person who won't shut up; a constant talker

microlipet: (My-kroh-LIP-it) someone who gets all worked up about trivial things

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The terms in this book, the real ones, are amusing as hell. The ones that were made up and collected by James Lipton are so witty and hilarious. I can't even remember all of them. Of course, I remember "A Mount of Porn Stars". "A Rack of Sadomasochi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 06:50:57 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 06:51:42 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 09:04:34 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 09:06:09 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Dec 07 16:07:47 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 16:08:38 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 09:07:53 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 09:08:16 -0700 2009
A book of Mormons.]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1994 Thu Jul 02 12:52:32 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 12:56:22 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Sep 04 23:05:30 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 04 23:10:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Aug 27 18:23:35 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 18:36:29 -0700 2007
Horrible, horrible, horrible! I already know how to describe things; I do not care to hear more about Mr. Lipton than I already have had to bear on The Actor's Studio; I am certainly glad I did not have to spend money on it, and frankly I ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 09 17:11:28 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 17:18:56 -0700 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=511205