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Summary: Absolutely invaluable
Review: Since the start of my writing career, I have relied on this book. It is, without question, the finest, easiest source for those hard-to-find replacements for overworked words. I have given at least a dozen copies to writers just starting their careers. Forget Roget's Thesaurus. This is _the_ book. I cannot imagine attempting to work without the Synonym Finder within hand's reach.
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Summary: THE BEST, THE ONLY - no brag, just fact. Owned since 1986!
Review: The fifth ace for your junior high/high school/college/ student - will help them write better papers faster as they get smarter - because vocabulary is the develop-able skill that elevates the GREAT STUDENTS from the Near Great. And you can't buy IQ or creativity in a book. You learn a lot just browsing it - it's fun to look up the words in a pre-1961 dictionary (when they started dumbing down) - what IS the difference betweeh true/real/honest/factual... or smart/brilliant/intelligent... or funny/witty/comical/jocular/hilarious...you won't need anything else except a pre-1961 dictionary to go along with this on your reference shelf! I find the paperback pages heftier and sturdier than the hardcover and more able to withstand the frequent use this will get. That's my only criticism - I wish Rodale would make a sturdier hardcover, never mind the bulk or cost - I'd pay a pretty penny for a sturdy hardcover, even leatherbound collectible.
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Summary: The best thesaurus out there...
Review: The Synonym Finder is absolutely the best thesaurus in print, sez me. It is an invaluable tool for the serious writer. It is more comprehensive and easier to use than any other thesaurus I've ever seen. Students, business writers, novelists - all need a copy right at hand to speed up and improve the writing process.
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Summary: No thesaurus is better
Review: This book is what a thesaurus should be. Don't buy "Roget's Thesaurus" or any of the others, you're wasting your time. Get this book, and if you can, get it in hardback because you're going to use it a LOT. The Synonym Finder plus Random House's Word Menu plus DK's Ultimate Visual Dictionary are together the Trinity of word references. I do not like to write without them.
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Summary: Superlative
Review: This book marched on the scene back in the late '70s with little attention, but it is far and away the best book of its kind. Roget's Thesarus, by comparison, is a dud. This book is indespensible to all writers -- novelist to business correspondent.
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Summary: overkill, 1/2 - 2/3 size = better & need electronic version
Review: This is a great work, but unfortunately Rodale has focused on personal health and forgotten about word health, so vital to our ability to communicate. I wish that someone could provide an electronic desktop or pocket edition of Rodale's synonym finder in conjunction with a dictionary. The desktop models available by Franklin are antiquated and too limited. Additionally, Microsoft's thesaurus used in its Word program is also too limited and their supplier Alki seems to have no interest in expanding the add-on program that increases the number of synonyms by approximately 140,000 but when comparing a simple word like large, even with the add-on by Alki, there are only 16 synonyms available in comparison to 156 synonyms available for the same word in The Synonym Finder. Additionally, The Synonym Finder was published in 1978 and revised in January 1979, almost twenty years ago. While I realize that firms gravitate towards the areas where they can make the most money, i! ! t is unfortunate that nothing has been done to update this fine work. Look also at the other publications, book or electronic, such as Webster, and see how limited their products are as well. If you have some ideas, I would lend a willing ear. At a time when President Clinton's misguided focus is on classroom size, he and others should be focusing on the real problems of education and increasing rather than decreasing the educational requirements. Don't send our children out into society and expect that society will provide the skills that educators have not taught. Will society correct the problem or will drugs, alcohol, sex, violence, divorce and broken homes, and the power that money can buy lead us to equate our values based on an addiction of material possessions and the death of our true freedom; when is enough, enough? Help renew our focus and save our children from the constraints of materialistic greed and support the expansion of their knowledge, useful skills, ! ! and chance for lifelong happiness and the respect of others! . Thanks for the opportunity to vent my frustration with the publisher, education, and those that administrate in such a meek manner.
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Summary: A valuable writer's resource
Review: This is an indispensible tool for anyone who has ever searched for the perfect word.
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Summary: THE BEST....
Review: This is the best thesaurus ever.As a poet i have found this book very helpful,this book should be in every house.
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Summary: The Synonym Finder
Review: This is the best thesaurus for educated native speakers
of English. It is the most comprehensive and dispenses
with discriminations, which are sometimes wrong or useless,
as the native speaker is already familiar with the various
shades of meaning.
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Summary: Absolutely the best!!
Review: This review will be short but sweet. This is the BEST Synonym book around. I have bought a look in my search for the best, and this is my second copy of this book. It is a WRITER's MUST...if you don't have it, you are missing out. Everyone I have recommended this to have come back and thanked me for 'saving' them!! Easy to read print, EXTENSIVE listing of Synonym. Worth every penny and a bargin at that!!
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