The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows Hardcover – 16 November 2021

This was a book I was following since it's phase of inception. The regular on line discussion used to generate a lot of curiosity. When I found it in it's definitive form I placed my order to have a personal one.The size of the book is very handy and it is in my travel bag to read it on transit and travel.This is a book not to finish in a hurry but to enjoy the company of every single beautiful word where each of them are creating a sanctuary of emotion around themselves. But it is never a cocoon but a transparent bubble of rainbow.Now it rains in Kolkata. I find this opportunity to savoir a few of the nuggets of unusual words in an atmosphere of shrouded melancholy.

Best book purchase in so many years now

Have you ever come across a situation that just didn’t have an exact word that defined it? Try this book. Strongly recommended.We all live fairly complicated lives and sometimes we need help to decode it. To put our feelings into words so that those words, now powerful enough to survive like a well-fed Voldemort, can challenge the world order. Or the exact opposite. We need our manifestations to have a size and shape and form like that of words and this is where this book will come handy. Every page is a revelation, throwing another win at the reader, in terms of conveying the precise feeling. And that makes it my most highlighted book of the year with almost every second paragraph underlined for posterity. May have to read again or many times over.Putting few samples below.—Star-stuck adj. :: exhausted by endless reviews and secondhand impressions; itching to stumble blindly into the world and make some mistakes, to wander around opening doors to restaurants and performances and movies you’ve never heard of, without the slightest idea of what to expect.Ludiosis n. the sense that you’re just making it up as you go along—knowing that if someone asked why you do most things, you couldn’t really come up with a convincing explanation.—

This book addresses things, feelings and emotions which all of us would have experienced at least once in our lifetime but do not have words or vocabulary to express it. It gives you a feeling of nostalgia and haunting at the same time.Is it worth the price??That depends on what you look for in a book. I personally loved it.

This book was a gift for a fellow book lover and she absolutely loved it.

Its like you come across a ready reckoner of feelings you have once felt but came here to revisit again

Beautiful! :)

What a wonderful wonderful book. I cannot recommend it enough. Each page is full of mysteries and delight. A human triumph, truly!

The book looks beautiful first off and the writing is magnificent. The author has made up his own words about those weird human thoughts and feelings we all have and goes beyond surface level to describe them. Even the words he uses are thoughtful with an explanation of the meaning of the derivative words. This is great to read out loud to a group or your partner to see what resonates the most. Or just sitting alone and feeling comfort is someone pointing out those thoughts you are unlikely to admit having. Great way to describe the human condition for those who struggle with the words that capture them.

It’s amazing. Oh, that book has been built with phrases, so unique it a must: It’s so emotionally intense when those word love the other words after they stick together I love it so much

I am in love with the whole concept of this book and I'm ashamed it took me so much time to actually buy it. Every page brings to you a new word for a feeling that you are very familiar with and that you did not know yet how to call it.

Me gusto mucho la presentación y contenido del libro, aunque pensé que el tamaño fisico del libro era más grande

per tutte le crisi esistenziali10/10