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Books : Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

by: Lynne Truss


Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781846680359 ISBN: 1846680352 Label: Profile Manufacturer: Profile Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: July 05, 2007 Publisher: Profile Sales Rank: 418 Studio: Profile	Average Rating: List Price: £7.99 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £5.94 You Save: £2.05 (26%) Prices subject to change.
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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Delicious Miniature
On the state of the nation's punctuation: this sounds like the kind of essay topic a prefect would award a wayward junior as punishment for some minor infringement ("500 words on the inside of a ping-pong ball", etc). However, this book turns out to be a funny, clever and witty tragi-comic diatribe.

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- Simply a wonderful book for learning punctuation
A gem of a book. I would recommend this book for just about anyone who's wanting to improve their punctuation, as well as those who feel they need to refresh or even re-learn the art of punctuation.

It's a great and easy read and can even be used as a decent reference.

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- You can't help cheering it on, because it has done such a good job in its humble way
How does a book about how to use commas and colons properly have lodged itself at No 1 on bestseller lists? Maybe Lynne Truss' books success shows that it is not just a few reactionaries who care. Truss agrees it's selling off the internet and stickler-types probably don't do their shopping on the internet. Lynne Truss wonders if there might be readers whose higher education has given them at least a guilty conscience about what they have not been taught, suddenly thinking that perhaps it does matter ... Read More

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- A joy to read
This book was a joy to read for me, and it was also research at the same time. I never realized how many punctuation errors people make. Some of these errors drive me crazy, too. I can't stand when people confuse their, there, and they're. This book was good research for me because I wrote my own book about English grammar, but only one chapter deals with punctuation.

Brandon Simpson

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- I now know I'm not alone...
By my title, I mean that I know there are other people out there who care about punctuation as much as I do! Truss writes with passion, verve and clarity about the decline in punctuation and the repercussions of this often infuriating issue. I read it from cover to cover in a few days and enjoyed her witty (often self-deprecating) humour and the illustrative examples of awful punctuation peppered throughout the book. Great for those with an interest in language, or simply anybody who wishes to take ... Read More

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