The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester

I am one of those people fascinated by language.  I own several dictionaries, etymologies, and usage guides; my favorite being the Oxford English Dictionary. I picked The Meaning of Everything up on a whim at Bookman's corner about a month ago. Written by the same author as The Professor and the Madman, this latter book is also about the genesis of the OED, but is more a history of the dictionary's development, and less of a human story. I would recommend anyone with a serious interest in the OED to read it, those not so philologically inclined may be better sticking with the authors earlier work.