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    <body><![CDATA[While this is not a history of the twenty-six individual letters of our Roman alphabet, Man’s slender volume instead focuses on the idea (or meme) of an alphabet. More specifically, he deftly maneuvers between the development of pictorial writing systems, syllabaries, and finally alphabets first b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63852292">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had great hopes for this book. It's full of interesting stuff, but the way it was presented addled me and kept me from really sinking in to a deep enjoyment. <br/><br/>Were I to clamor for a re-make, I'd ask for<br/>* more graphics<br/>* clearer discussion of the orthographic terms (I'm not su...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67945817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent read if you have some background in ancient near-eastern background or classics background. With a weaker background in ancient western cultures, I  struggled to keep up with the names, places, and dates. However, it was worth the effort because I wanted to learn about alphabets...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61060318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like type and history and interesting things, then this is the book for you. It delves into the history of our alphabet, as well as writing systems in general, and gets into things you would never think could possibly connect with just the alphabet, but wow, what a ride.<br/><br/>The writin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22610566">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you have any interest in lingustics and how language is formed, this is pretty interesting, even though the author does tend to go on random tangents that don't really have to do with the topic (but are enlightening anyway).  I've always wondered where we learned to write and this answered a lot ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29404095">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is just so much that we don't know -- cannot know -- about the development of the alphabet.  But the evidence that there is, combined with much speculation, begins to create a version of the story.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted a little less history lesson, a little more lingusitics lesson.  Okay, a lot less history lesson.  Not what I expected but interesting none the less. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I only made it half way through this one.  Too many tangents and way too few images to explain the evolution of shapes.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thing I most remember about this book is description of the way in which the written script developed in Mesopotamia and Egypt.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting account of how written language develops and how we ended up with the letters we ended up with today.]]></body>
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