The Well-Spoken Thesaurus: The Most Powerful Ways to Say Everyday Words and Phrases (Christmas Gift or Stocking Stuffer for Writers or College Students) Paperback – February 1, 2011

Tom Heehler is a brilliant and compelling author that easily engages his audience at the start of this book. His passion to help readers become eloquent in articulation, evident. This writer includes his personal collection of notes, as he introduces us to a number of history's greatest writers. This is a journey packed with cover to cover education, enjoyment, as you revisit time and again. I highly recommend this book.

This is not only a thesaurus; it is a guide to practical and quality writing. I truly enjoyed this book and I use it daily.

I just purchased six different Thesauri. They were all top rated on Amazon, and sounded so good I couldn't resist trying them all. I hope you find this Comparison Guide helpful.....THE SYNONYM FINDER BY RODALE - 5 Stars1,361 pages of Words in alphabetical order (no Index needed), and each word has a long list of Synonyms - many more than Microsoft Word 2004 gives. Each lookup word is identified as adverb, noun, verb... No pronunciation guidance.Soft brownish pages at about 86% brightness. 1,361 pages. 6" x 9"* * * * * * *BARTLETT'S ROGET'S THESAURUS - 3 StarsThis book is written in a Concept Flow. It is almost impossible to find any lookup word without the Index, so 663 pages of this book are Index! And the Index is in very fine print!! Each lookup word has a list of Nouns, then Verbs, then Adverbs... after it. No pronunciation guidance.Smooth white thin pages at about 96% brightness with good sharp text. 1414 pages. 7.25" x 9.5"* * * * * * *ROGET'S INTERNATIONAL THESAURUS - 3 StarsThis book is written in a Concept Flow. It is almost impossible to find any lookup word without the Index, so 469 pages of this book are Index! And the Index is in fine print!! Each lookup word has a list of Nouns, then Verbs, then Adverbs... after it. No pronunciation guidance.Soft yellow-brown pages at about 86% brightness. 1282 pages. 7.4" x 9.5"* * * * * * *THE WELL-SPOKEN THESAURUS:THE MOST POWERFUL WAYS TO SAY EVERYDAY WORDS AND PHRASES - 5 StarsThis book gives you better sounding, more descriptive words and phrases to say or write instead of the words that are ordinarily used in every day language. There are from one to about twenty alternatives under each lookup word.Soft pages at about 94% brightness. 391 pages. 6" x 9"* * * * * * *THE DESCRIBER'S DICTIONARY:A TREASURY OF TERMS AND LITERARY QUOTATIONS - 4 StarsEven though this book is organized entirely by subject, and there's no Index at all to look up a particular word, it's still very good at conceptualizing a great many words and phrases that you may want to better describe in that article or book you are working on. On the left pages there are paragraphs by famous authors to further illustrate how to better write the concepts for your project.Rough brownish pages at about 84% brightness. 414 pages. 5.5" x 8.25"* * * * * * *THE EMOTION THESAURUS:A WRITER'S GUIDE TO CHARACTER EXPRESSION - 5 StarsEach Emotion gets two pages, and begins anew on the top of the left page (I do love a book that is formatted in this way). After the Title Emotion we get a Definition, and then very good descriptions of the following: Physical Signals, Internal Sensations, Mental Responses, Cues of Acute or Longterm..., May Escalate To, Cues of Supressed...Smooth bright white paper at about 99% brightness. 164 pages. 7"x 10"

I’ve started examining this and found a number of ways to improve my vocabulary and strive for variety of expression. There are a few things I don’t agree with but overall very helpful and informative.

I love books like this , I can personally Recommend: Effective Phrases for Performance Appraisals by James E. Neal jr. , note to Authors A bit of ( white noise on pg. 193 ) Homeland is a benign & or neutral word describing " A Land in which Is Home " . Home conatating Living structure.

I refer to this book every day

Not as impressive as I had hoped. Seems like just someone writing a book on their version of “how to sound superior in your speech”. I appreciate the effort, it just feels a bit forced.

100% worth it. Unlike other reference texts I put this into use immediately. Easy to use and very productive. Will not be leaving my side.