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Title: Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus : Updated & Expanded 2nd Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer ISBN: 0-440-23513-8 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 13 July, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The easiest one to use of the bunch
Comment: I've bought several thesauri over the years, including good ole Roget's International, but this one by Barbara Kipfer is by far my favorite because it strikes just the right balance between ease of use and comprehensiveness. Roget's International is undoubtedly the king still for comprehensiveness. Unfortunately, Roget's International is also the most onerous to use, so much so that I rarely ever touch it anymore. Other thesauruses on the market in dictionary format, such as Roget II or Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus, are very easy to use, but unfortunately they have few synonyms under each entry. This thesaurus by Kipfer, on the other hand, is just right. I give it five stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: An ocean of words I enjoy swimming in!
Comment: "Thesaurus" is Latin for "treasury", but all the editions that I came across in my long search of a good one had been anything but. They were either too bulky or too brief, severely abridged or arranged by concepts (!) with alphabetical index at the end. Looking for the right word in these circumstances caused me excruciating pain, both mental and physical. I was in great danger of being sucked in by a tornado of strange, confusing, irrelevant words.
Thankfully, I discovered this book. And what a treasury it is! The dictionary format, 450,000 entries, 1 million word results, a wonderful concept index on the back which shows how a word fits into a pool of similar ones - these are only some of the many highlights of this edition. Not only do I keep it by my side every time I sit down to write, but often look into it for pure pleasure, partaking of the wealth it stores.
Rating: 4
Summary: I'm much too young to be this danged old
Comment: I started word processing with good old Word Perfect for DOS - which was the "Cadillac" of its time. It had a fine Thesaurus utility. Alas, my printer died and when I got a new one, it would not "speak" to my old Friend WP DOS. So I was forced into Billy Gates' Microsoft Word - and the Thesaurus just isn't as good.
Tardily, (one could argue from my previous reviews,) I broke down and got this "Library Binding" (good choice! Durable, but not as expensive as hard cover) book. It combines the best of both approaches - Dictionary and "concept" groupings. I have perused the beginning and end and parts in-between, but have found no symbol key. It appears, though, that an asterisk* after a suggested replacement cautions slang, for instance - "affront: ... dump on*" But how then to explain:
"good: acceptable, ace*, admirable, agreeable, bad, boss*,..." Note that there is no asterisk appearing after "bad," which is properly not accepted as a synonym for "good."
Nonetheless, if one is savvy ("acumen, awareness, comprehension...") enough to avoid potential pitfalls and detrimental reliance, this is a pretty good book. The bad news is that, in order to fit all this good stuff into a portable 957 pages, the print/font is reduced to "I'm old enough to remember the entire uncut first release of Inna Godda Da Vida and I gotta squint and move the page in and out to read this" size.
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Title: The Merriam Webster Dictionary by Merriam Webster, Merriam-Webster ISBN: 0877799113 Publisher: Merriam-Webster, Inc. Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms by Merriam-Webster ISBN: 0877799067 Publisher: Merriam-Webster Mass Market Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: 21st Century Synonym and Antonym Finder by Barbara Ann Kipfer ISBN: 0440213231 Publisher: Dell Publishing Pub. Date: 04 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition by Merriam-Webster ISBN: 0877798095 Publisher: Merriam-Webster, Inc. Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language by Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries ISBN: 0395825172 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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