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review Crossworld One Man's Journey into America's Crossword Obsession Ñ eBook or Kindle ePUB Sixty four million people do it at least once a week Nabokov wrote about it Bill Clinton even did it in the White House The crossword puzzle has arguably been our national obsession since its birth almost a century ago Now in Crossworld writer translator and lifelong puzzler Marc Romano goes where no Number 2 pencil has gone before as he delves into the minds of the world’s cleverest crossword creators and puzzlers and sets out on his own uest to join their ranksWhile covering the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament for the Boston Globe Romano was amazed by the skill of the competitors and astonished by the cast of characters he came across like Will Shortz beloved editor of the New York Times puzzle and the only academically accredited “enigmatologist” puzzle scholar; Stanley Newman Newsday’s puzzle editor and the fastest solver in the world; and Brendan Emmett uigley the wickedly gifted puzzle constructer and the Virgil to Marc’s Dante in his travels t. If you re one of those people whose eagerness to get to the New York Times crossword puzzle every day sometimes worries you a little you ll want to have a look at this book which profiles some of the puzzle obsessed among us The book isn t without its problems for example if you re annoyed by an intrusive narrative voice you ll want to steel yourself for Romano s he s uite taken with himself and rarely lets five pages go by without his reminding you that he s a polymath who speaks a few languages and went to Yale Also I think Romano overstates the popularity of crosswords if there s such a phenomenon as America s crossword obsession I sure haven t noticed it Sudoku sure but crosswords Still this book gives an engaging history of the Times crossword details the process for building the puzzles and profiles some of the builders most notably Brendan Emmett uigley who s revered among many solvers and also gives some pretty good tips for honing your puzzling skills

review Crossworld One Man's Journey into America's Crossword Obsession Ñ eBook or Kindle ePUB Hrough the crossword infernoChronicling his own journey into the world of puzzling even providing tips on how to improve crosswording skills Romano tells the story of crosswords and word puzzles themselves and of the colorful people who make them solve them and occasionally become consumed by them But saying this is a book about puzzles is to tell only half the story It is also an explanation into what crosswords tell us about ourselves about the world we live in the cultures that nurture us and the different ways we think and learn If you’re a puzzler Crossworld will enthrall you If you have no idea why your spouse send so much time filling letters into little white suares Crossworld will tell you – and with luck save your marriageCROSSWORLD | by Marc RomanoACROSS1 I am hopelessly addicted to the New York Times crossword puzzle2 Like many addicts I was reluctant to admit I have a problem3 The hints I was heading for trouble came at first only occasionally4 The. I did enjoy parts of the book especially the profiles of Will Shortz and other prominent figures in the crossword world On the other hand I found the author pretentious self absorbed and mildly sexist I was also so very uninterested in his creepy thoughts about every woman he was attracted to Georgie Lee reluctant to admit I have a problem3 The hints I was heading for trouble came at first only occasionally4 The. I did enjoy parts of the book especially the profiles of Will Shortz and other prominent figures in the crossword world On the other hand I found the author pretentious self absorbed and mildly sexist I was also so very uninterested in his creepy thoughts about every woman he was attracted to

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review Crossworld One Man's Journey into America's Crossword Obsession Ñ eBook or Kindle ePUB Moments of panic when I realized that I might not get my fix on a given day5 The toll on relationships6 The strained friendships7 The lost hours I could have used to do something productive8 It gets worse tooDOWN1 You’re not just playing a game 2 You’re constantly broadening your intellectual horizons 3 You spend a lot of time looking at and learning about the world around you4 You have to if you want to develop the accumulated store of factual information you’ll need to get through a crossword puzzle 5 Puzzle people are nice because they have to be 6 The you know about the world the you tend to give all things in it the benefit of the doubt before deciding if you like them or not 7 I’m not saying that all crossword lovers are honest folk dripping with goodness 8 I would say though that if I had to toss my keys and wallet to someone before jumping off a pier to save a drowning girl I’d look for the fellow in the crowd with the daily crossword in his hand. Cool book that s gotten me into Crosswords Made me dive into it

• Paperback
• 272
• Crossworld One Man's Journey into America's Crossword Obsession
• Marc Romano
• English
• 13 February 2018
• 9780767917582