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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Illustrated Ed.: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation Paperback – October 6, 2009

by Lynne Truss (Author), Pat Byrnes (Illustrator)

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The stickler-tickling punctuation polemic is even more fun with the whimsical art of acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist Pat Byrnes

The runaway bestseller that has everyone minding their p?s and q?s (and their commas and semicolons), Eats, Shoots & Leaves has delighted audiences around the world, sold more than 1.6 million copies in North America and elevated Lynne Truss to superstickler status among those in the know. Now the book is beautifully packaged with more than fifty vivid, full-color illustrations throughout by renowned cartoonist Pat Byrnes. Each illustration brings to life a different punctuation pitfall in a wickedly playful style that matches Truss?s trademark wit. We hope you?ll agree that it?s a chocolate-and- peanut-butter combination (even better than the sum of its parts). Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Illustrated Edition is also accompanied by a colorful foreword by wordsmith extraordinaire Frank McCourt.

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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Gotham; Ill Rep edition (October 6, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 159240488X
ISBN-13: 978-1592404889
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (907 customer reviews)
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217 of 237 people found the following review helpful

Is John Updike a Menace to Society?

By Allen Smalling TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on May 27, 2004

Format: Hardcover

Readers, check your reaction to the following sentence:
Lynne Truss, an English grammarian is bloody fed up with sloppy punctuation.
Does that sentence leave you feeling confused, irritated, or angry? Do you feel you have to second-guess the author of the sentence, forced to ascertain whether s/he was writing to Lynne Truss or about Ms. Truss?

But that sort of thing is almost the norm these days, on both sides of the Atlantic. Of course, we Americans have been struggling for years with FRESH DONUT'S DAILY and Your Server: "MILLY" -- not to mention the archy-and-mehitabel school of e-mail that neither capitalizes nor punctuates and reading through this kind of sentence really gets confusing i think it does at least do you too?

Turns out that even the British--including the elite "Oxbridge" inteligentsia--are wildly ignorant of punctuation's rules and standards. Lynne Truss, an English grammarian and author of EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES, is bloody fed up with it! So she wrote this handy little book that is ever-so-correct but not condescending, sometimes savage but not silly, full of mission and totally without mush.

Think of Truss as punctuation's own Miss Manners, a combination of leather and lace, with maybe a bit more emphasis on the leather. (She advocates forming possees to paint out incorrect apostrophes in movie placards.) But her examples of bad punctuation serve a purpose: bad punctuation distorts meaning. EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES includes numerous hilarious backfires of punctuation -- statements and missives that use the exact same words but convey totally opposite messages due to inappropriate punctuation.Read more ›

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73 of 79 people found the following review helpful

Punctuation Pandemonium

By dennis wentraub on June 2, 2004

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Here's a small book you'll want to stuff in your pocket for that next flight or train trip to pass the time and avoid the embarrassment of having to explain to people you know that you're chuckling over a book on punctuation. Oddly enough the quite funny joke on which the title is based only appears on the dust jacket. But there is enough deadpan humor, historical trivia, and useful information in this modest work to make up for the lapse. If you think punctuation is just a collection of gratuitous furbelows with strict rules intended to keep grade school teachers, snobs, and compulsive personalities preoccupied, take a deep breath. To be sure our author Lynne Truss is a punctuation vigilante and does not take these matters lightly. Offenses to the language put her into a royal snit. Her temperament inclines to "zero tolerance", but in practice Truss recognizes the need for flexibility. The written presentation of our language is dynamic and continues to evolve. The preservation of punctuation rather than a fussy observance of rules is her goal. Maybe just maybe that preservation motive explains her regret at not mothering the children of the 16th century Venetian printer, Aldus Manutius the Elder, for whom we have to thank for italics and semicolons.
Our present day punctuation began with Greek dramatists providing actors with cues for their onstage delivery. With the development of printing, printers became the innovators for this notational art. Over time conventions developed governing their use and were codified as rules. Creative types bristle at most forms of restraint. Gertrude Stein thought commas to be "servile", semicolons "pretentious", and question marks "completely uninteresting".Read more ›

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92 of 102 people found the following review helpful

Incredible: An Entertaining Punctuation Manifesto

By Rob Hardy HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on April 12, 2004

Format: Hardcover

"If there is one lesson that is to be learned from this book, it is that there is never a dull moment in the world of punctuation." Perhaps that is hyperbole, but there is never a dull moment in _Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation_ (Gotham Books) by Lynne Truss. Surely the book will not be the sensation it was in Britain, but it is witty, informative, and entertaining; you can't ask for more from a punctuation manual. And if you do not yet think that punctuation is important, you will after you see all the misunderstandings a little comma can cause. Take the peculiar title, which is from a joke: A panda goes into a café, orders a sandwich, eats it, takes out a revolver, fires it into the air, and goes out. When the waiter calls to ask what is going on, the panda plunks a badly punctuated wildlife manual onto the table and growls: "Look me up." The waiter finds the entry: "PANDA. Large, black-and-white, bear-like mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves." Oh, let's have one more. There was an American actor playing Duncan in _Macbeth_, listening with concern to the battle story of a wounded soldier, who cheerfully called out: "Go get him, surgeons!" Misplaced comma; it should of course be: "Go, get him surgeons!" Another story related here, a true one, shows that a comma can literally be a life-or-death matter.
The book is zero tolerance indeed. Truss says it doesn't matter if you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice, "If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve ..." and she lists some ghastly punishments.Read more ›

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Fun book on punctuation!

It is a lovely and fun book on punctuation. The humor is enjoyable and its lessons memorable. I have shared this book with several friends after receiving it from a friend.

Published 5 days ago by JGB

An interesting read, fun.

Fun read it will stay in my library.

Published 15 days ago by Sandra Altenhof

Two Stars

Boring, Boring, Boring

Published 20 days ago by Roderick V. Coe

Good Reminders

What can I say, I'm a nerd who enjoys books about writing rules. This was another good one.

Published 29 days ago by cprkwy8

Two Stars

Not what I expected.

Published 1 month ago by Don Leach

COVER STORY MISSED!

HUMOROUS AND TECHNICAL TEACHING AT THE SAME TIME. BUT LYNNE FORGOT TO DESCRIBE THE COVER STORY - OR I MISSED IT. GOOD JOB.

Published 1 month ago by Rich Sulzer

Great book for editors and writers

Wonderful and funny book about punctuation.

Recommended.

Heidi

Published 1 month ago by Heidi Walter

It depeds on what type of non fiction you enjoy.

I loved this book! I had to read it as a summer reading assignment a couple years ago and loved the book. I learned so many tips and tricks about writing from Truss. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Elizabeth

as it is her own voice and theory speaking and preparing her readers...

As I read through Eats, Shoots and Leaves, I felt that Truss’ use of drama and metaphor read as desperate, almost vulgar in its attempt to be witty. Read more

Published 1 month ago by E. Betz

I'm sure it would be one of my favorite! One of my biggest pet peeves...

I haven't read this book, yet. I'm sure it would be one of my favorite! One of my biggest pet peeves is the gross amount of bad punctuation, bad spelling and bad grammar in... Read more

Published 1 month ago by Nanasjt