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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I interrupted Shogun to read a local book club book, The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams.
It's set in the first half of the 20th century, and the background fro the characters is the compiling of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The characters are good, and I enjoyed the book overall. But I was a little put off by the introduction of fictional characters into history, in a place and time where the number of historical people is very small. That's to say - the people who worked for any significant length of time on the OED is small and well known. Having a minor and a major fictional character as part of that group seems odd.
4/5 overall.
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I have Shogun but have never had the courage to read it yet.