Before the Chicago Manual of Style I was a 750 lb man living off of street scraps. Then one day, one of those street scraps ended up being this book. I burnt through it the first time I read it. Cover to cover in mere days. Since then I have re-read the Chicago Manual of Style upwards of sixteen times. I now weigh a healthy 185 pounds and am a Supreme Court Justice in Delaware. Thank you Chicago Manual of Style.