Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabblep Layers - Tapa blanda

"Fatsis . . . writes with affectionate zeal about the game and the fraternity of brilliant, lonely, and otherwise dysfunctional oddballs it attracts." --The New York Times

"Word Freak has an impassioned subtitle, and it lives up to every word." --People

"Fatsis is a wonderful writer." --The New York Times Book Review

"A can't-put-it-down narrative that dances between memoir and reportage." --Los Angeles Times

"Funny, thoughtful, character-rich, unchallengeably winning writing." --The Atlantic Monthly

"While a book about Scrabble sounds as appealing as a work on the beauties of watching paint dry, Fatsis brings drama and suspense to the game....His crisp reporting is enough to make the reader hyperventilate." --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Word Freak is a fascinating look into a thriving, cultish world that's best admired from an armchair." --The Christian Science Monitor

"Fatsis's marvelously absorbing excursion into the world of Scrabble...is a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect.... Fatsis clearly doesn't regard Scrabble as just 'a board game, ' and he tells us its history in loving detail." --San Jose Mercury News