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Eats, Shoots & Leaves | 
 enlarge | Author: Lynne Truss
Publisher: Gotham
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  541 reviews
Sales Rank: 191751
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Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.3 x 1.1
Dewey Decimal Number: 428.2
ASIN: B000X1N440
Publication Date: April 12, 2004
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Product Description
A New York Times Bestseller In 2002 Lynne Truss presented a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation which led to the writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book became a runaway success in the UK, hitting number one on the bestseller lists and prompting extraordinary headlines such as "Grammar Book Tops Bestseller List" (BBC News). With over a half million copies in print in England, Truss is ready to rally the troops on this side of the pond with her rousing cry, "Sticklers unite!" Available only in Core 7.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 536 more reviews...
 Your library has 10 copies of this book--guarenteed! September 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you must: I suggest your local library. That, or you could buy it used. They are currently selling used copies of the hard back for one cent.
That's about all it's worth. Her information is fair, but her attitude is horrible. She insults every facet of the very audience that is asking her for help.
It gets folks fired up, doesn't it? September 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My punctuation is definitely not perfect, but I enjoyed "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" a lot because I too am frustrated by the insanity that has writers putting an apostrophe before the "s" in any word ending in that letter! Drives me batty! I believe that the author has toungue planted firmly in cheek and found myself laughing all the way through her book. I am glad that even in punctuation, humor can be found.
It also heightened my awareness of "writing right" and made me want to do a better job of using reference guides to understand why things are done as they are, instead of just going by the seat of my pants and "I think it looks right, oh I'll just throw in some more commas."
 An ode to an endangered species: Punctuation September 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is not a grammar or style guide. This is rather a book by someone who is passionate about language, in general, and punctuation, in particular. If you see a signboard of a shop advertising "CD's, Video's, DVD's, and Book's", and if you see another one declaring "No Dogs Please" and both of them trouble you immensely, then this book is for you.
Such grammatical errors have troubled me all my life, and I found this book not only immensely entertaining but I identified with the author's feelings very deeply. Yes, I do punctuate my text messages; yes, I do use proper capitalizations and punctuations in my e-mails; and the author declares that sadly most of the people do not bother about such niceties.
Funny, informative, and full of humourous anecdotes, Truss's book is an ode to an endangered species: the punctuation. I enjoyed every page of it.
Fun book September 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I thought this was a fun book, although I'm not sure that I agree with all of the author's points. Clearly, she cares a great deal about grammar in a way that the rest of us might not. Still, it was quite entertaining. I definitely recommend it for anyone who enjoys word (crossword puzzlers, Scrabble players, or just readers).
 A LAUGH PER PAGE August 12, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A cute little book with some fun prose, and a lot of confusion and differences of opinion about punctuation. It's the British way or the Truss way, but often doesn't help us across "the pond." She did get me thinking about sentence and paragraph structure, and probably more confused. The book did help me with apostrophes and the dashes, and it also reassured me to know that my high school English teacher was not always right. It's good to know that there are many different ways of punctuating, as long as the message gets across clearly. So there, Ms Langley! Would I buy the book again? Yep! (did I use that exclamation point properly?)
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