Book Description
Bob's Bible is the comprehensive distillation of the word knowledge you need to become a superior Scrabble player. It's perfect for browsing, reference or all-out study! It's a must-have for any ardent player of the game of Scrabble, be they beginner or World Champion.
In fact, 2001 World and 1998 North American (NA) Scrabble Champion Brian Cappelletto, 3-time NA Champion Joe Edley, 1994 NA Champion David Gibson and 1990 NA Champion Robert Felt have all obtained their copies! You've read about them in Stefan Fatsis' Word Freak -- now you can have a champion's word knowledge conveniently summarized in one convenient book.
What's Inside:
All of the National Scrabble Association-acceptable two- to eight-letter words are alphabetically listed and each word is annotated with all of its hooks (one letter extensions) and anagrams (words using exactly the same letters). When you look up
HARKENED you'll find that
DAKERHEN is the obscure anagram. You'll discover that
LUNCH and
RIOT can be hooked with the letter
G to make
GLUNCH and
GRIOT .
PICTURES anagrams to both
CUPRITES and the unexpected
PIECRUST! And the delightful surprises go on and on!
Bob's Bible has 80,367 annotated word entries and also can serve as an authoritative and comprehensive word judging reference for North American lexicon games.
Customer Reviews:
The Perfect Resource for Improving Play.......2004-10-18
Bob's Bible is a perfect resource for improving play. It offers useful lists to extricate a player from tight spots (i.e. the vowelless rack or vowel-heavy rack). It lists both the short and 6-8 letter JQXZ words. Plus, every entry includes the front and back hooks as well as the anagrams of that word which allows the player to see how that word will fit into play or how his opponent might hook onto that word during play. This book has broadened my potential and energized my game. I feel I've found the secret formula for successful play!
Yes, you can still find this essential Scrabble Bible!.......2004-09-26
Why someone would rate a book that they haven't seen is incomprehensible. The only ratings below 5 stars for this book are from people who are frustrated because they haven't been able obtain it.
The paperback version is out of print, but a nicer wirebound book is available through Amazon's used books and it's actually new. If you have trouble finding a copy contact I suggest emailing bible@hiwaay.net or running a google search on Scrabble Bible. It's the first item in the google list.
The newer edition also contains 60 pages of beginner study lists: the 2 letter words, 3 letter words, 4 letter words, the JQXZ words for each length 2-8 letters, the Heavy-vowel words for each length 2-8 letter and the no-AEIOU words for each length 2-8 letters. The wire binding makes it last much longer (many Scrabble tournament players were wearing out the paperback version!)and allows it to lie flat for learning. There is also a large print version available, an International Edition that adds the British words as well and a Backwards edition that actually orders the words by their reversed spelling!
Essential for tournament players.......2003-05-19
This book gives you all the words in the Official Word List,
saving you the need to buy a copy unless you're using it to
judge challenges in club games and someone objects to the
extra information: front and back hooks, and anagrams, for
every word listed. It's great fun to browse for such lovely
anagram pairs as SNAKEBIT BEATNIKS, OILIEST IOLITES, and my
current favorite, ONANISM MANSION -- and you might just retain
a new word or two. If you play in NSA tournaments, you need
this book, period.
A must for Scrabble players and word game enthusiasts.......2002-08-15
Bob's Bible took the competitive Scrabble world by storm. Within a few short months of its initial publication it graced the shelves of most of the nation's top Scrabble players. It is formatted to include hooks and anagrams for each entry, which is essential information for the competitive Scrabble player. All words are sanctioned for use in club and tournament play and it is the same word source used by many online word games, such as Literati and WordOx. Of the dozens of word books and dictionaries I own and use for various word games, Bob's Bible has proven to be the most useful and valuable. I love it!
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Gerard sits, fully clothed, in his empty bathtub and pines for Benna. Neighbors in the same apartment building, they share a wall and Gerard listens for the sound of her toilet flushing. Gerard loves Benna. And then Benna loves Gerard. She listens to him play piano, she teaches poetry and sings at nightclubs.
As their relationships ebbs and flows, through reality and imagination, Lorrie Moore paints a captivating, innovative portrait of men and women in love and not in love. The first novel from a master of contemporary American fiction, Anagrams is a revelatory tale of love gained and lost.
Customer Reviews:
Loved the language and humor, but oh so sad.......2007-08-20
I have read three Lorrie Moore books, but missed this one so it was a treat to delve into her writing again. I enjoyed the story and laughed at the turns of phrase. It is fun to have a book that it is best to read slowly so you don't miss the unexpected anagram or wry comment about life.
Then there is the incredible loneliness and sadness threaded throughout the book. Very strong and so real. This book has a punch.
I am going to quote a paragraph that caught my attention as I read.
"You cannot be grateful without possessing a past. That is why children are incapable of gratitude and why night prayers and dinner graces are lost on them. "Gobbles Mommy, Gobbles Grandpa..." George races through it. She has no reference points. As I get older the past widens and accumulates, all sloppy landlessness like a river, and as a result I have more clearly demarcated areas of gratitude. Things like ice cream or scenery or one good kiss become objects of a huge soulful thanks. Nothing is gobbled. This is a sign of getting old."
A witty poetic genius writes a surprise........2006-05-29
Moore, Lorrie, Anagrams. 1986. New York: Time Warner Books, 1997.
Moore is a highly successful author and storyteller. Even so, it's the rare book that can get me chuckling, then laughing, then roaring, and then suddenly bring me to tears. This is that rare book. Benna is a teacher who used to dance at clubs. She is 33, divorced, and troubled by loneliness. She has a 6-year old daughter called Georgianne, and a large woman friend named Eleanor. She meets Gerard, a "large, green-eyed man" who loves classical music, sings tenor in opera, and plays guitar at clubs. Their relationship is the focus of the early chapters, but what strikes the reader is the play with words they engage in. Moore must be a poet! She invents words that fit: "the ruckle of the toilet paper," "oxpecker," "mingy philodendra," and she produces fantastic images: "pantcuffs misironed into Möbius strips," "reading Hart Crane in an inner tube..." There are many plays on words: "vulva or B.M., names that sounded like foreign cars." "Add a d to poor and you get droop. Add a chromosome, get a criminal. Subtract one, get an idiot or a chipmunk....'You are my honey bunch' was not usually interchangeable with 'You are my bunny hutch.'"
Benna tells us, "There was a period when I kept trying to make anagrams out of words that weren't anagrams: moonscape and menopause, gutless and guilts, lovesick and still louse...." she scrawls lovesick and evil sock on a table in a café, and then bedroom and boredom.
I could quote from almost every page of this wonderful book, but I'll finish with "'Why are we supposed to be with men, anyway? I feel like I used to know.'
'We need them for their Phillips-head screwdrivers,' I said.
Eleanor raised her eyebrows. 'That's right, she said, 'I keep forgetting that you only go out with circumcised men.'" Later, Eleanor says, "If they can send one man to the moon, why can't they send them all?"
But the novel has far deeper themes than the jokes and word play. All the characters have problems and nothing turns out the way we expect. In fact, it's a heartbreaker--a big surprise, and highly recommended by this fussy reader. Five stars plus.
Contemplate Your Navel Much?.......2004-06-12
I'm stunned that there are so many favorable reviews of Anagrams. I love wordplay and wit, and despite a few moderately amusing turns of phrase, this book doesn't cut it for me. Worse, corny "urban legends" are supposed to pass for cleverness, as with "Strings Too Short to Use." What is she going to write about next, the socks that get lost in the dryer? Ultimately, these characters are unattractive people who traipse along in a chronic low mood, holding out the no doubt false promise that if only there were SSRIs in the water supply, they might actually become active participants in life. Don't hold your breath!
Laughing At the Saddest Things.......2003-08-12
"Anagrams" is simply one of those books you can not read in a quiet room with other people around you. You can't sit at the mini-wannabe-Starbucks at the bookstore and read through some of the passages, or bring this with you for jury duty during the interminable wait, or sit in the doctor's office with this instead of paging through six-month old tattered copies of People and Good Housekeeping. You can't. This book is too funny. It's too good. If you're not laughing, you're gasping, you're saying, "Oh my god, that's wonderful!" You're asking people around you for a highlighter, for a piece of paper and a pencil to write this stuff down. Maybe you will have a chance to use one of these quotes in your daily life.
Moore is the kind of writer I wish I discovered before I picked out my high school yearbook quote. Clearly I'd use the quote, "Life is like a journey. Sometimes the weather is good. Sometimes it's bad. Sometimes it's so bad your car goes off the road." I don't remember where that's from, probably some story in "Birds of America," a tome of brilliance in and of itself.
So, "Anagrams," yes. Beware when you begin. It's like Lorrie Moore is trying to throw you off. She is. You'll backtrack a million times. You'll say, "This makes no sense!" But it does. Just trust that it will.
There are four stories at the beginning. "Escape from the Invasion of the Love Killers," "Strings Too Short to Use," "Yard Sale" (so ohmygod funny I thought I'd wet my pants, I could barely look at it) and "Water." Then there's the book, under the title, "The Nun of That." All of the stories contain the characters of Benna, her neighbor-friend Gerard, and her good friend Eleanor (I love Eleanor). The book introduces us to Georgeanne, Benna's daughter, Darrel, her lover, and various other weird Moore characters with strange names like Maple and Verrie. There is no chronology, it seems, to these stories and the book. You realize at the end that there isn't supposed to be. (Or is there? Hmmm...)
Clearly "Anagrams" is one of those books that deserves a re-read. No bother, though, because it is simply hilarious, and there's always something on every page you want to experience again.
So, any plot description? Goodness, no, I don't want to even try to discern a plot description. Just read this. Read this if you're familiar with Moore's shorter works and wonder if she can handle longer fiction. (Oh, she can, she's wonderful at it. You will worry at points if she got stuck and decided to go on some digressions on life, love, sex, and death, but even if she did--even if that was the case--they're wonderful to read.) I don't know if I recommend this as a first. My introduction to Ms. Moore was "Like Life," namely "You're Ugly, Too." I think "Self-Help" is wonderful place to start. I've yet to read "Who'll Run the Frog Hospital?" I can't wait.
Perhaps the best way to recommend this book is to leave you with a few choice quotes.
"Eleanor is a good friend and has come to our yard sale this weekend with all the mangy items she failed to sell in her own sale last weekend....[She] has brought over junk: foam rubber curlers with hair stuck in them; a lavender lace teddy with a large, unsightly stain; two bags of fiberglass insulation; three seamed and greasy juice glasses, which came with free shrimp cocktail, and which Eleanor now wants to sell for seventy-five cents."
"To me the ocean, so loaded with seafood, is more like a loud and giant bouillabaisse."
[On Benna's birthday, celebrating with Georgeanne]: "In the kitchen we eat ice cream. I can't get it together to make a cake." (Perhaps my favorite quote from this whole book. I had to stop reading and take that in when I first read it.)
Anyway, that's just a sampling of lines I liked from this book. If anything, read "Yard Sale" and tell me you can't resist this book. "Yard Sale" is perhaps some of the funniest writing Lorrie Moore has ever done. And this whole book is a compelling, can't-even-look-at-the-clock kind of read.
Moore is a master.......2001-08-29
Like reviewer Chris Burkhalter, I don't think is Moore's best (Birds of America and Self Help are it, for me), but her second or third best surpasses so much other fiction out there it's not even funny. There is no one better at inventive descriptions of emotions, physical characteristics, smells, clothing, etc. It's miraculous really; her way with words boggles this aspiring writer's mind. And, as an aspiring writer, I have to say that it is Moore's writing I strive to emulate. I wasn't wild about the structure of Anagrams; as others have noted, three short story-esque pieces to start, followed by 'the novel.' But if you're a reader that reveres language, and if you often find yourself pausing to savor sentences and phrases in whatever it is you're reading, pick up this book (and anything else by Moore) and savor those moments, because I guarantee there will be many of them.
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- The Best Book of Its Kind I Know
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Palindromes and Anagrams
Howard W. Bergerson
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ASIN: 0486206645 |
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Fascinating word-lover's treasury brings together over 1,100 different anagrams and nearly as many palindromes, plus a host of related phenomena — charades, circular reversals, vocabulary called poetry, etc., plus much high-level commentary and observation.
Customer Reviews:
The Best Book of Its Kind I Know.......2002-01-10
This short, inexpensive book contains the best collection of anagrams and palindromes I have ever seen. My copy is dog-eared from repeated use. The book contains an enormous amount of top-notch palindromes that are far from over-familiar. Some samples:
* A new order began; a more Roman age bred Rowena.
* A dog, a pant, a panic in a Patna pagoda.
Those samples may strike you as silly and meaninglesss, in which you are not a palindrome person, and this book is not for you. Or they may make you want to see more, in which case you should definitely buy this book. The palindromes by J.A. Lindon, which make up the book's grand finale chapter, are amazing tours de force.
Trust me -- this book has the goods. If you are a wordplay enthusiast, you'll love it. If you know one (perhaps a co-worker), it could make a great inexpensive gift. Strongly recommended!
A must for wordplay enthusiasts........2000-04-05
Howard W. Bergerson, former editor of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, presents more than a thousand anagrams and hundreds of palindromes (with sources, where known).
This volume (an inspiration for many books including Michaelsen's "Words at Play" and Jon Agee's collections) is a must for wordplay enthusiasts, especially those with a penchant for these particular curiosities.
You will get your money's worth on this one.
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Elvis Lives!: and Other Anagrams (Sunburst Book)
Jon Agee
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ASIN: 0374420955
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Book Description
Jon Agee presents another installment of witty wordplay with Elvis Lives!, a book of over sixty anagrams (words or phrases rearranged to form new words or phrases), each hilariously illustrated by the author.
An IRA-CBC Children's Choice
A Parents' Choice Recommended Book
Customer Reviews:
Funny, clever.......2000-06-26
Agee rearranges the letters in these words and phrases with funny results. For example:
elvis = lives
nudist colony = no untidy clothes
alien forms = life on mars
committees = cost me time
eleven plus two = twelve plus one
In writing they are clever, but with his illustrations they are hilarious.
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Dictionary of Anagrams
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Language skills will fly through the air with the greatest of ease as kids join in
The Circus of Words. Children of all ages are delighted by anagrams, palindromes, acrostics, alliteration, riddles, and puns, yet few books on wordplay are addressed to middle-schoolers. This creative and challenging activity book shows kids how to juggle letters to become ringmasters of wordplay. “The Shrinking Spotlight” shows how larger words become smaller words when certain letters are removed. “Clown Cars” introduces the idea of words hiding within words, and “The Acro Bat” and “Silver Spoonerisms” show off letter clusters that change from one word to another. The whole bandwagon is here, enabling kids, who are natural language enthusiasts, to cavort through that endless entertainment, the English language.
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Robert Rauschenberg: Anagrams
Bernice Rose
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Holy Tango of Literature is a unique and captivating collection mimicking the great writers of literary history. This devilishly witty book has a twist: Each writer's name is rearranged as a title, creating the subject for a parody rendered in the author's style.
Customer Reviews:
An utter delight!.......2006-02-24
It takes a certain amount of talent to write a good pastiche, particularly, I think, of poetry. And it takes a certain degree of twisted brilliance to come up with the idea of writing parodies based on anagrams of the author's names. But it takes nothing more than genius to capture each author's style absolutely dead on, weave in a host of clever pop culture references, and produce something that pleases the frontal lobes of the brain even as it mounts an all-out tickle war on the funnybone. This book is a work of absolute freakin' genius.
I should note, by the way, that you really don't have to be a lit geek to enjoy this. I hardly consider myself a poetry connoisseur, but I recognized the great majority of the pieces being parodied. Heaney seems to have stuck to the author's most famous works, many of which are familiar from high school English classes. And even the ones whose source I didn't recognize entertained me. Which, when you think about it, is all the more impressive.
Don't let this one get away.......2006-01-18
A lovely little book that has proven to be a wonderful introduction to classical poetry in our homeschooling family.
Great stuff!.......2005-10-16
Francis Heany hits the nail on the head with each of these brilliantly conceived bits. He has a chameleon-like flair for clicking into the rhythm, style and voice of each writer. It's just uncanny. Also, the stories he explores based on the anagramed writers' names are a riot.
We had relatives visiting, and my husband's niece was in tears from laughing so hard at Robert Frost/"BrR, Footrest". Who else would come up with a surreal combination of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and the opening credits of "The Dick van Dyke Show"? Absolutely brilliant stuff.
Looking for a great gift for your friends who love a good juxtaposition of classic literature and popular culture? "Holy Tango" of Literature should be on your shopping list!
All The Literature You'll Ever Need.......2005-06-06
This is wonderful stuff by a true comic polymath. Just read "Likable Wilma" by William Blake, which begins, "Wilma, Wilma, in thy blouse, Red-haired prehistoric spouse" , and you'll know what I mean. I have a conflict of interest here (I drew the pictures) but I laughed hard at Francis Heaney's work before I got tangled up with it, when I first saw it in Mirth of a Nation. Buy The Holy Tango today! The children of America should be committing it to memory!
A work of unique brilliance and multi-layered wit.......2005-04-30
This expertly-crafted and flawlessly erudite effort would be well worth one's attention as a jaw-droppingly-impressive literary stunt, even if it weren't that funny. The fact that it is, on top of everything else, hilarious makes it absolutely irresistible.
Book Description
When a young inventor named Ned realizes he doesn't have anything for show-and-tell, he whips up something unique from the odds and ends in his closet. The result is "Ned's Mix-Up Ray," a device that scrambles the letters in a word, changing the object into something else entirely. It's bad enough that he changes his AUNT into a TUNA and the PEAS and GRAPES at the local grocer's into APES with PAGERS. But when he uses the device on his classmates (BRIAN becomes a disembodied BRAIN and poor KRISTEN turns into a STINKER), he pushes things too far. Following a BUS ride, (well, a SUB ride, actually) and a disastrous field trip to an art museum, Ned realizes that he hasn't been kind. So putting his inventive mind to work, he comes up with an ingenious solution to fix all the trouble he's caused.
From the off-kilter mind of Mike Reiss, author of the best-selling How Murray Saved Christmas and former writer for The Simpsons, comes this hilarious tale of a show-and-tell project gone waaaay out of control.
Customer Reviews:
Un-believable and hilarious.......2002-03-07
This book is about a boy that makes a mix-up machine for show and tell. After he makes it everything starts going bonkers!!... This would be a good read aloud book for 4th grade or under. I really liked this book and if you like funny books than I think you will too
Show and Tell Gone Wrong............2002-03-04
Poor Ned, today is show and tell and he has nothing to bring. So he goes to his closet and checks out his stash. "A rusty eggbeater, a toy laser beam,/A handheld electronic spelling machine./A Slinky with kinks and an old ping-pong paddle,/A snow globe that said "Having Fun in Seattle."/He smushed them together with duct tape and glue./He had an invention, but what did it do?" So he points and he clicks and the SHOE on his bed becomes a HOSE spraying cold water. He tries it again and his LAMP becomes a PALM, and it is then that he realizes he'd invented a Mixed-Up Ray, a contraption that takes words and makes crazy anagrams. His AUNT becomes a TUNA, PEAS become APES, and as soon as he points his ray at the kids at school, they begin to change. CATHY becomes a YACHT, NAT an ANT, BRIAN a BRAIN "with a big throbbing thinker",and his teacher, MRS ETON, a MONSTER. But things really become interesting when the class leaves on an art museum field trip..... Mike Reiss has written an engaging, manic romp that gets wilder and sillier with each page turn. His hilarious, rhyming text is full of energy and motion, and complemented by Mike Cressy's bold, bright, and busy cartoon-like illustrations. Together they've authored an entertaining chain of events story with a wonderfully clever solution. Perfect for youngsters 4-8, The Great Show-and-Tell Disaster is a delightful, high-spirited story kids will beg to read again and again.
Wonderful for kids and their parents!!.......2001-12-13
This is a great book for early readers and more importantly, a lot of fun for parents to read over and over! If Dr. Seuss were to mate with Marge Simpson, Mike Reiss would be the result! Buy and enjoy.
Cowabunga, dude!.......2001-10-30
Bart Simpson has never been more hilarious than in this rollicking adventure! Our spiky-haired hero is in over his head this time, when his out-of-control invention turns Springfield inside out! Mike Reiss deserves a Grammy for this delightfully clever ode -- or should I say -- an ANAGRAMMY! Eat my shorts -- or should I say -- "TEA YM THORSS"
"Disaster" is a triumph!.......2001-10-21
I don't know who enjoyed this book more -- me or my kids! The imagination displayed in the book is wonderful, the rhymes are hilarious (and inventive), and the story brings back my own "show and tell" days, vividly! I'm already picking up extra copies as holiday gifts for friends and their kids!
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If mind benders and brain teasers in the Sunday paper get your noggin going, then grab a pencil and start puzzling with The Everything Word Games Challenge Book! Packed with more than 700 assorted word games, you'll find everything from anagrams and acrostics to cryptograms and chronograms-all organized into puzzles and riddles meant to sharpen your thinking skills and increase your word power.
With these games, you can:
Code and decode secret messages with phone numbers
Try your hand at word ladders, the most popular word game invented by Alice in Wonderland author and mathematician Lewis Carroll
Magically transform words into other words with logogriphs
Impress your friends with an expanded vocabulary in Word Know-It-All
Discover the Riddle of the Sphinx
Complete with an answer key to reference when you're really stumped,
The Everything Word Games Challenge Book puts your wits to the test with hours of wordplay fun!
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