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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $19.95
Manufacturer: Gotham
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Description
A panda walked into a cafe. He ordered a sandwich, ate it, then pulled out a gun and shot the waiter. 'Why?' groaned the injured man. The panda shrugged, tossed him a badly punctuated wildlife manual and walked out. And sure enough, when the waiter consulted the book, he found an explanation. 'Panda,' ran the entry for his assailant. 'Large black and white mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.' We see signs in shops every day for "Banana's" and even "Gateaux's". Competition rules remind us: "The judges decision is final." Now, many punctuation guides already exist explaining the principles of the apostrophe; the comma; the semi-colon. These books do their job but somehow punctuation abuse does not diminish. Why? Because people who can't punctuate don't read those books! Of course they don't! They laugh at books like those! Eats, Shoots and Leaves adopts a more militant approach and attempts to recruit an army of punctuation vigilantes: send letters back with the punctuation corrected. Do not accept sloppy emails. Climb ladders at dead of night with a pot of paint to remove the redundant apostrophe in "Video's sold here".
Reviews
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-09-03
Summary: "My book wasn't "like new""
Product arrived in decent time but it was not "like new" as advertised. There were a few scratches and a rip in the cover. It was also kind of dirty.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-31
Summary: "Beware, Lest you Become too Punctilious Altogether!"
Just call me "Ellen the Punctilious" from now on; because of Lynne Truss' little book, I'm hooked on proper punctuation! Commas, periods (full-stops, in UK), parentheses (brackets, in UK), semi-colons and colons, and everything in between is covered within these 204 pages, nestled between words of wit and wisdom that inform as well as entertain.
One of Truss' goals is to show us why punctuation is important and what we can do to keep it alive. Is it in danger of watering down and eventually disappearing? You bet your sweet bippy, and Truss carefully explains this to us as we go along, using historical and literary references that go back to the beginning of the written word.
A favorite quote: The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours [sic] when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning. Punctuation herds words together, keeps other apart. [end quote], p.20
How important is the punctuation? Here is a classic example from p.9:
Dear Jack, I want a man who knows what love is all about. You are generous, kind, thoughtful. People who are not like you admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me for other men. I yearn for you. I have no feelings whatsoever when we're apart. I can be forever happy--will you let me be yours? Jill
COMPARE TO:
Dear Jack, I want a man who knows what love is. All about you are generous, kind, thoughtful people, who are not like you. Admit to being useless and inferior. You have ruined me. For other men I yearn! For you I have no feelings whatsoever. When we're apart I can be forever happy. Will you let me be? Yours, Jill
See? Punctuation can be fun!
Caveat: this book was written by a Brit, and although they released the USA edition that I read, it was still chock full of formula that we don't use in America. Truss is disturbed horribly because we insist on putting our punctuation INSIDE the quotation marks. "Stop that, Lynne," Ellen said. (See, INSIDE). She's abhors the way we put periods after shortened proper nouns such as, Mr., Mrs., Dr., and Jr. And she calls the punctuation by their British names enough that if you don't pay close attention, you might become royally confused half-way in. The only real solution for this problem is for the author to rewrite the entire book just for the Yanks--which I'm fairly certain will never happen.
Still, a solid five stars for a helpful, informative, and sometimes laugh-out-loud-hilarious book.
Ellen C Maze
Author of Curious Spiritual Vampire Tales
RABBIT: CHASING BETH RIDER, Top 100 Horror/Occult on Amazon
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-08-28
Summary: "A lively discussion on punctuation--who'd of thought?"
Truss in a lively, humorous banter discusses (and teaches) about the guidelines of punctuation. For most, this book will be informative--you will certainly learn something about punctuation's proper usage, even if you consider yourself a punctuation guru--at the same time that is entertaining.
At first, I couldn't help but feel it to be somewhat of a waste (?) to devote one's entire life to the study of the ellipses "..." (cf. Truss, 2004)--powerful as they are--yet on the other hand, I cannot deny that in a very crucial way, punctuation illuminates meaning in a passage that could otherwise be misconstrued. It's like good manners. How kind. More @ [...]
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-08-27
Summary: "Academie Anglaise..."
Lynne Truss has written a book that must be placed in its own category: a best selling book on punctuation. It probably surprised even her. And it intimidates at least this reviewer, fearful of the numerous red marks he would receive, all due to a penchant for an extra clarifying comma or two, and a few other weaknesses. The title is a play on the changed meaning of the sentence if there is a comma after "eats," and is accompanies by a panda, who would nominally be a cuddly grazing vegetarian but becomes a harden killer who takes a gun, and kills (all due to the lack of a comma.)
Truss describes herself as a "stickler," and says she was driven to write the book after viewing one too many mistakes with signage. Fair enough. And she has produced a thoughtful, amusing book on the need for greater precision in our written communication. The book is chock full of anecdotes, starting with just plain dumb to ambiguous errors, and then stresses the importance and evolution of punctuation. For example, the reader will learn that the novelist, Milan Kundera once fired a publisher who insisted on replacing a semicolon with a full stop (that's a period for Americans). Likewise, the Irish nationalist, Roger Casement was "hung by a comma." Anton Chekhov once wrote a story entitled "The Exclamation Mark." And Aldus Manutius the Younger, in 1566, where a lot of this story all began, stated that the main object of punctuation was the clarification of syntax (surely a statement I will now routinely quote in defense of my "extra" commas.) Ms. Truss (and hopefully the honorific is acceptable) manages entire chapters on the apostrophe, the comma and the dash.
I figured she was just being a bit playful with her "over the top" mock outrage. She might actually be a pleasant dinner guest who would not exhibit the same fastidiousness in regards to wine selection or cutlery placement. But still, I did have a few problems. Principally, she is BRITISH! (Please, no scathing comments... some of my best friends are...) And while her book might work quite well in the UK, and assorted dominions, there is that "translation" problem for Americans that is not addressed, as well as others, and it goes beyond full stop, period. There must be at least 500 words that are spelled differently in the United Kingdom and the United States: color, colour, etc. The road to damnation would be paved with the supposed good intentions of impose one spelling standard or another. For better or worse, and it is generally the latter, at least the French have an Academie française, where language usage can be adjudicated... and new words invited, particularly in computer technology, so English words do not soil the sacred tongue. But English speakers have no such body, and Truss writes her book, sorta, as though one existed (herself?) I noticed that she gave only a passing nod to this problem when she said: "...that American usage has retained a lot of the formal niceties that we have dropped. They also often use a colon after "Dear Andrew", while on this side of the Atlantic we dither about whether even a comma looks a bit fussy."
Indeed, that sentence contains one of my favorite bugaboos about punctuation in an international setting. In British usage, the comma is outside the quotes; in American usage, the comma is inside the quotes. So, what is an honest "citizen of the world" to do? Be consistent, or give a nod to punctuation relativism!
Enjoy the anecdotes, enjoy her tongue-in-cheek (hopefully) style, but an English speaking "citizen of the world" will find only paltry directions to "correct" behavior in this book. 4-stars for at least the wit, and yes, we should be at least clear and usually unambiguous in our written communications, and no doubt, Aldus Manutius the Younger would concur.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-08-01
Summary: "Great book, Dumb price on Kindle edition"
Terrific, entertaining, and instructive. I need to be reminded of some of these rules and usages occasionally. Would love to have the electronic version, but refuse to pay more for that than I would pay for the version that requires paper, printing, warehousing, and shipping. What's up with that, Penguin?