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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
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A story about this — 5 years ago

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Now you have no excuse not to know!

A story about this — 6 years ago

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who wants to rumble over oxford commas? you, you, or you?

A story about this — 6 years ago

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This is great! I found out that I wasn’t alone in cringing at the sight of a poorly-punctuated sentence.

A story about this — 6 years ago

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Lynn Truss has written a delightful best-seller on the art of using commas, apostrophes, and semi-colons in her Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. After reading this book all I can think of is that I need to use semi-colons more often. Eats, Shoots & Leaves is both a useful guide to punctuation (primarily from a British perspective) and a witty and humorous rant against the declining use of proper punctuation in our culture. Ms. Truss frequently delves into the historical roots of many of the punctuation and type formatting standards we take for granted today.



How could a book on punctuation make it to the best seller list and stay there for… how many months has it been? One reason is by being well written and entertaining. Another reason is that those of us who read books also often like to write. Since the dawn of email and the Internet we’ve been writing much more than we would ever have expected to. As such, many of us are on the one hand appalled by the lack of proper punctuation populating the emails of those born around the same time as the personal computer, and on the other hand trying to remember what exactly those rules were that we learned so long ago. Eats, Shoots & Leaves appeals to us for both reasons; Truss lambasts the awful punctuation she sees daily while gently explaining the guidelines for doing it right.

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A story about this — 6 years ago

A very fun read. However, the first thing I did after finishing this book was apostrophize its in an e-mail to Daisy and Adam. Shameful! (completed 5/2)

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Wonderful

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Completed January 2005

A story about this — 7 years ago

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A balm to my soul – even if I do have trouble with the occasional apostrophe…

Love this book!

A story about this — 7 years ago

This book makes me laugh out loud. Who knew punctuation could be so funny.

A story about this — 7 years ago

Rating: 4*/5

A story about this — 7 years ago

May not be the most instructive grammar book out there since it is mostly based on British grammer. Nonetheless it is more humorous than the others that I have read.

A story about this — 7 years ago

I heard a lot about this book before I read it, and it lived up to the hype. A fun and informative book.

A story about this — 7 years ago

Is there hope for me?

A story about this — 7 years ago

Love this.

A story about this — 7 years ago

Picked up in London. An amusing little book on proper punctuation (though the author is clearly unsound on the issue of the serial comma).

A story about this — 7 years ago

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“A woman, without her, man is nothing.”

“A woman without her man, is nothing.”

Punctuation matters!

A story about this — 7 years ago

I already knew I was an apostrophe nut. Now I know I’m not alone. Ahhh.

A story about this — 7 years ago

How bad is my punctuation? Exhibit A: My blog.

A story about this — 7 years ago

A wonderful book for grammar lovers everywhere. I both cringed and laughed at mistakes in common usage — not that I ever make any myself.

A story about this — 7 years ago

Amusing, but a bit precious.

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