Honestly, after watching the TEDx presentation of the author afterwards, I'm very grateful he hired a professional to do the reading. The audiobook narrator is so good that I thought he could have been the author.
Fortunately, John's many examples show that one could use this book to be a "nayslayer." I learned many new terms that relate to my own love for neologisms and the stories behind them. I liked the history and explanation of why some people don’t find puns funny even, juvenile. I actually liked how deep this went – beyond the humor and wit, and into the historical background (including resistance), psychology, and even the neurological processes with how we respond to puns. This is exceptionally researched and crafted for storytelling. This really got me thinking about how we use language. Good enough to listen through twice on a long hike At once entertaining and educational, this engaging book answers fundamental questions: Just what is a pun, and why do people make them? How did punning impact the development of human language, and how did that drive creativity and progress? And why, after centuries of decline, does the pun still matter? Skillfully weaving together stories and evidence from history, brain science, pop culture, literature, anthropology, and humor, The Pun Also Rises is an authoritative yet playful exploration of a practice that is common, in one form or another, to virtually every language on earth. In The Pun Also Rises, John Pollack - a former World Pun Champion and presidential speechwriter for Bill Clinton - explains why such wordplay is significant: It both revolutionized language and played a pivotal role in making the modern world possible. But such attitudes are relatively recent developments. The pun is commonly dismissed as the lowest form of wit, and punsters are often unpopular for their obsessive wordplay.
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