The Big Words In The Big Book Dictionary

Some Reviews

"Obviously an indispensable tool for both 12 Step treatment facilities and Sponsors taking their Sponsees through the Big Book. Frankly, I wasn't expecting anything as comprehensive and well laid out as this and I'm delighted with it."

"Definitely a real confidence builder for newcomers to the Fellowships. However, as I began using it with one of my newest Sponsees, I was really surprised about how much I was learning about the Big Book myself."

"Having used this for just over two months, I can assure you that all of my Sponsees will have a copy of this book. In my opinion, it's needed today more than ever. "

"In the past, I found it a total waste of time trying to use a regular dictionary when reading the Big Book because by the time I found the definition I needed, I sort of forgot what I was reading about when I started looking up the word. Using your book, finding a definition is so fast, I can stay in the flow of my reading. Great job and beautifully laid out!"

"This is more than a dictionary - in many ways it's an encyclopedia. Very helpful."

"What I like about your book is that it gives descriptions of the people and places in the Big Book. For me personally, that's like converting a black and white movie to technicolor."

"I am now using your book in my roundtable Big Book Study Group and that wouldn't be at all practical if your book wasn't so easy to use and so fast to find a definition. Brilliant!."

"For almost sixteen years as a member of Alcoholics Anonymous I've been telling people that everything they need to know to stay clean and sober is in the Big Book. Perhaps now, with the aid of this book, more people will come to understand how true this is. This is an excellent piece of work you've done here."

"My only complaint about your dictionary is that it wasn't written yet when I went through treatment four years ago! This is going to be a big help for newcomers and their Sponsors."

"Lastly, and I'm not sure if you did this on purpose, but the binding you use for your book enables me to keep it open flat without holding it down. That may seem like a small point, but when you're actually using a book of this kind, it's important. You've done a really nice job on this."

"I knew someone would create something like this sooner or later, but I never expected it to be as good as this. Congratulations on a fine job. Any plans for the 12 and 12?"

"My only problem with your book is that I can't get people to stop borrowing it!"

Star T. - Columbus, Ohio

"I don't know whether it was your original intention, but this dictionary is an esteem builder for people who have difficulty reading, or have limited vocabularies. It should have been written decades ago."

"I recently re-read a number of the personal stories in the third edition of the Big Book and using your dictionary, I'm able to see that those people were just like us. They might have used different ways of saying things, and life might have been different back then in other ways, but nothing about addiction or being an addict has changed at all. This is really the first time I've realized that."

"Being the skeptic that I am, I didn't think a book like this could be done properly. I'm emailing you today to tell you I was wrong."

"When I first went through the Big Book, I always had a huge dictionary nearby. And the biggest problem was that quite often, the definition was more confusing than the word itself. So I like that your dictionary gives simple, easy to understand definitions."

"Naturally, we tend to pronounce some words a little differently down here than you show in your dictionary, but learning the real meaning of so many of the words, terms and expressions is what's really been helpful for the kids in our facility."