R.A.W.: Book: Eats, Shoots & Leaves

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Book: Eats, Shoots & Leaves · 11. June 2005, 01:04

I’ve been very busy lately and I’ve been reading less than usual. I hadn’t stopped altogether though and this book is one that I actually finished a couple of months ago.

Lynne Truss, the author of the excellent “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”, makes the point in her book that if you ever cared when you should or should not use a comma, semi-colon or other piece of punctuation you would have already have acquired an English grammar. I guess I have often wondered but never really cared. After reading her book though, I am definitely closer to caring.

This book takes a humourous approach to defending the necessity of punctuation in the English language. Lynne Truss provides many examples of unfortunate punctuation mistakes that she has collected and that were sent to her following her original punctuation rant on BBC radio (the radio show inspired her to write the book). Along the way many of the darker corners of correct punctuation usage are described with a similar humour and clarity as the rest of the book.

I would highly recommend this book to everyone.

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