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The Secret Universe of Names
by Roy Feinson
from Overlook Hardcover

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• An informative and yet fun book
  This is a nice book, and would certainly make a good gift, especially for someone who wants to find a name for a child, but this isn't the entire reason for getting it of course. This book is simply very interesting reading. I found that the description for my name seems quite accurate; I guess now I know why people find me a bit hard to figure out. :D

• Great resource!
  This is a great book. I like the fact that it doesn't just give you a flat historical meaning, but bases the meaning on the sounds that the letters in your name make and words that have similar patterns or sounds. We all make associations with words, so it's worth it to consider this idea. I really enjoyed reading about the history of each letter and how the sounds of letters and combinations can have different effects. I haven't seen a name book like this before. Highly recommend it.

• Hocus Pocus Dribble
  I was hoping for an authentic book on the origin of names, instead it's pretty much a subjective bunch of dribble that has about as much scientific fact as astrology.
  I checked my initials with what was in the book and it was about 60% accurate, but then in checking other initials I came up with personality types that were more 100% me. Perhaps my parents misnamed me or I was born under the wrong letter for a surname.
  I think personality types and makeup are more genetic than being given a certain... more info

• It's About Time!
  Finally. A new, one of the few , books out on the "spirit" of the name. My biggest question is methodology. How did you do it? How is the author so right-on with the name analysis? Where do you go to learn more about this type of study? This book got me hooked.
  There's more to a name then there appears to be. This book was the most useful out of all my 20 or 30 or so baby naming books. This book isn't in the same catagory as "the name Mary means water, Patrick = patriarch or nobleman... more info

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