Eats, Shoots & Leaves: 2006 Day-to-Day Calendar [Calendar]

Lynne Truss (Author)

Product Details

• Calendar
• Publisher: Universe Publishing; Page/Day edition (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 078931309X
• ISBN-13: 978-0789313096
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 5.3 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,686,648 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buy the book, forget the calendar, January 16, 2006

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D. Bourg (Corrales, NM United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: 2006 Day-to-Day Calendar (Calendar)

The book was funny. The calendar isn't. It's boring and whiny.

Please don't judge the book by this calendar! The book was great. My husband and daughter loved it. I gave them the calendar for Christmas, thinking that it would be just as funny. What a disappointment!

I strongly suspect that the person who created the calender was not Lynne Truss, but someone from Andrews McMeel who did not understand the subtle humor of the book.

5.0 out of 5 stars The What and Why of Good Grammar, August 1, 2006

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Scott Taylor "SJT" (Columbus, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: 2006 Day-to-Day Calendar (Calendar)

I'm surprised by the lack of positive reviews for this book. I found it informative, succinct, and witty. One simply cannot learn grammar effectively through rote memorization. Were that true, there would be no need for this book as we, or at least those of my generation, were supposed to have learned this previously in school.

What Truss provides are the mental hooks, presented in an engaging manner, to enable the ongoing retention and use of proper English grammar. By detailing the genesis and origin of acceptable grammar rules, Truss gives the reader the framework to effectively understand, and therefore apply, those rules on an ongoing basis.

My single want, after reading this book, is the lack of coverage for some areas of English grammar, those concerning the ampersand come immediately to mind.

5.0 out of 5 stars Ironic how a point can be made, February 24, 2006

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frenchdel (Chicago, Il) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: 2006 Day-to-Day Calendar (Calendar)

Clearly Lynne's point is made about how little attention is paid to punctuation and grammar. All who have given poor reviews because you thought you were buying a book and not a calendar need more than her book to help you...try glasses or a reading class first. Amazon has clearly labeled her book with (Hardcover) and the calendar is indicated by, after the title, "...Leaves: <--(this is a colon) Day-to-Day Calendar."

Lynne's rating shouldn't suffer because all of you refused to pay attention to detail beforehand. It shows your "rudeness" and how you are in your own bubble so much that you don't even pay attention to words, just pretty pictures. Good thing she wrote the book on rudeness now too!

Great job Lynne!