Puzzled: Secrets and Clues From a Life Lost in Words [Audiobook] download free by David Astle
- Listen audiobook: Puzzled: Secrets and Clues From a Life Lost in Words
- Author: David Astle
- Release date: 2014/12/27
- Publisher: ALLEN & UNWIN
- Language: Not Available
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781743314296
- Rating: 7.78 of 10
- Votes: 585
- Review by: Kristopher Nation
- Review rating: 9.35 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/5
- Duration: 5H22M37S in 256 kbps (84.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-22
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP4, FLAC, MP3, WMA, Vorbis, WAV, MPEG4 (compression TAR.LZO, DMG, ZIP, AZW, ALZ, TAR.Z, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 424
- Includes a PDF summary of 43 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 33M16S (8.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: I used to regret not being born Catholic because it meant I'd been denied the joys of self-flagellation. Then I discovered DA and he solved my problem.' - Bill Leak, cartoonist, and anagram of Killable'He's the Sergeant Pepper of cryptic crosswords. A complete mindf k.' - Geoffrey Rush, actor, and anagram of Gruffy HeroesMany a puzzle solver has battled against the devilish mind of long-time crossword maker and wordaholic David Astle, known to many as DA.In Puzzled he holds out a helping hand to the lost and perplexed taking us on a personal tour into the secret life of words. Clue by clue, chapter by chapter, we step through a central puzzle, uncovering and unravelling word-secrets as we go. The Steve Irwin Fluke, the Swastika Accident, the Abracadabra Pyramid - hidden meanings, anagrams, reversals - all the Dark Arts are finally revealed.More than a how-to manual, more than a memoir, Puzzled enlightens us about cryptics and delights in the quirky realm of wordplay. It is a book for word junkies everywhere.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: General
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 21.06 USD
- Dimensions: 153x234mm
- Weight: Not Available
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Sydney, Australia
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