Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Review
Eats, Shoots & Leaves is a very informative, entertaining book. I found when I read it that I not only learned helpful rules of punctuation, but found myself laughing out loud about the history of the first semicolon, or the ignorance of greengrocers. The book showed how one punctuation mark can change the entire meaning of a sentence. After reading this book I have become more aware in my writing for punctuation errors and also have discovered myself getting upset about punctuation errors that lead to confusion. Lynne Truss appears to be quite obsessed with punctuation and I don't think a better person could've written the book however, at times I was thinking to my self, "Really?" because she was quite the stickler. Overall the book moved very slow for me because it seemed like she would spend pages upon pages praising the hard work of an apostrophe, or something that wasn't that interesting to me. I agreed with her idea that obvious punctuation errors that lead to misunderstanding should not occur as much as they do in today's society but, when it came to very complex rules of punctuation that she was upset about, I didn't care. I enjoyed the layout of her writing because she always gave examples and I learned quite a bit about semicolons and colons that I didn't know about previously. I think someone who is interested in learning about punctuation, looking for a humorous book or is a nitpicker for punctuation themselves would greatly enjoy this book.
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Overview
A bona fide publishing phenomenon, Lynne Truss’s now classic #1 New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves makes its paperback debut after selling over 3 million copies worldwide in hardcover.
We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species.
In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.
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Customer Reviews
Great book, Dumb price on Kindle edition - John McAndrew - Santa Fe, NM USA
Terrific, entertaining, and instructive. I need to be reminded of some of these rules and usages occasionally. Would love to have the electronic version, but refuse to pay more for that than I would pay for the version that requires paper, printing, warehousing, and shipping. What's up with that, Penguin?
Fun for people who have never read a fun grammar book, useful for people who have never read a useful one. - ** - Boston, MA USA
Was it the cute pandas on the cover? I can't imagine how this book became a best seller. There are far more useful grammar books out there. There are far more enjoyable grammar books out there. There are, in fact, a slew of grammar books that are both more useful and more enjoyable than this one.
"Eats, Shoots and Leaves" will teach you little more than that the incorrect usage of apostrophes and quotation marks bugs Lynne Truss. The book is easy to read -- not a bad thing -- and can be a friendly introduction to the world of grammar instruction and the people who care. If you're looking for anything more than that, though, skip this book and look to other authors' works.
The Perfect Gift - Island Dreamer - Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii
I was given this book as a gift from one of my co-workers. I am not sure if he meant it to be a grammar lesson or a good laugh, but either way I love it. Lynne Truss is a very funny lady who was fed up with seeing grammatical errors at every turn. Luckily for us, she decided to write a book about it.
And what a fantastic book this is. Ms. Truss did a great job covering everything one should already know about grammer and she did so in such an amusing way. This book is a true treasure trove of information. If you know someone who is horrible at grammer, or who is always correcting everyone else's grammar, or someone who could just use a good laugh, this book is the perfect gift.
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