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Review: Loved this book! It takes an original approach to the staid, old idea of babyname books. This one goes the extra mile by offering special lists of "Names Sure to Make Your Baby a Doctor" and "Names That Give You a Leg Up in Life." It's fun--and even includes some of today's "original" names that people actually make up for their small fry. We all are seeing that there's really nothing too over-the-top these days in the way of naming babies--check out Gwyneth Paltrow's new baby Apple!
So, I'd recommend people buy this one and have a great time; this isn't brain surgery--it should be fun.
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Summary: 40,001 Baby Names
Review: My first child is on the way in October, and although we have a first name in mind, we wanted some ideas for middle names. If you are thinking about this book, don't do it based on the following names I found in the book: celery and dijonnaise. Were they just trying to reach 40,000 and 40,001 name so they could call it a day?
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Summary: You'll find Quantity, but not much Quality Here....
Review: My first child is on the way in October, and although we have a first name in mind, we wanted some ideas for middle names. If you are thinking about this book, don't do it based on the following names I found in the book: celery and dijonnaise. Were they just trying to reach 40,000 and 40,001 name so they could call it a day?
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Summary: Buy a different book
Review: This book had lots of made up names. Also the lists are fun to read, but not really believable. Don't waste your money on this one!
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Summary: not impressed
Review: This book is inflated with created names,and some meanings are either made up or sound suspicious. Too bad.
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Summary: I thought it was great!
Review: This book was very helpful in choosing a name for our daughter. It's a fun book, has interesting lists, and gives name meanings or connotations (for newer names that lack historical meanings.) I love our baby Dominique's name!
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Summary: The best book on baby names
Review: This is an excellent resource to have when thinking of what to name your baby. It is fun to browse and gave me 100s of ideas.This is the mother of all baby name books...
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Summary: I was hoping for a whole lot more
Review: This is probably the most disappointing baby name book I've ever read. The 75 fun baby name lists are promising, but overall the book description, no doubt provided by the publisher, is blatantly wrong. Supposedly this book contains "40,001 full names-not the derivative names and nicknames other books include." Not only are the derivatives and nicknames counted in the total, but so are seemingly endless compound names and multiple spelling variations of same names. Even if I could convince myself that Bobbiechristine is an independent name, rather than a combination of two names, I could never get behind a name classification system that has BobbiChris, Bobbichristine, Bobbie-Christine and the aforementioned Bobbiechristine counting as 4 names towards its inflated total. Interestingly, the one variation of this name that is present in pop culture, Whitney Houston's daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown is completely absent.
The "important sections such as 10 steps to naming a baby and real-life stories" are both about the length of typical magazine articles at 4 and 4 and a half pages respectively. They provide little in the way of fresh advice and the real-life stories seem to be culled primarily from people who I can only assume are the author's friends and acquaintances in south Texas. This approach is symptomatic of the superficial level of research that has gone into this book. I'm not a baby naming expert, but even I'm not fooled by the spurious definitions given for many of the names in this book. When in doubt (or unwilling to do even basic research), the author seems willing to go with the impression she feels a name creates rather than any kind of actual linguistic meaning. Just try to count how many girl's names mean pretty. She correctly identifies Amarillo as a place name, but then expects the reader to believe it means cowgirl. I can't believe this stuff made it past an editor.
While providing little in the way of solid information this book might deliver on its promise of a chuckle.
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Summary: jumbled words of no value
Review: waste of money no pronunciation of names, only a jumbled mess
of letters, anybody can write a book like this, save your money
this book is not worth anything
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Summary: Lots of names to chose from!
Review: We found this book very helpful, among other features it lists the origin of a name (German, Hebrew, American...) as well as the meaning and other similar spellings. The 75 Fun Lists was very interesting, Names for future Doctors, Names for girls that are beautiful, Names teachers can't pronounce, Names that spawn nasty nicknames, Most popular names of the 70's, 80's, 90's... 5 Stars!
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