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Eats, Shoots & Leaves

The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Auteur(s): Lynne Truss
Narrateur(s): Lynne Truss
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 In 2002 Lynne Truss presented Cutting a Dash, a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation, which led to the writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book became a runaway success in the UK, hitting number one on the bestseller lists and prompting extraordinary headlines such as Grammar Book Tops Bestseller List (BBC News). With more than 500,000 copies of her book in print in her native England, Lynne Truss is ready to rally the troops on this side of the pond with her rousing cry, Sticklers unite!

Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. If there are only pedants left who care, then so be it. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From George Orwell shunning the semicolon, to New Yorker editor Harold Ross's epic arguments with James Thurber over commas, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.

©2003 Lynne Truss; (P)2004 BBC Audiobooks, Ltd Communication et habilités sociales Développement personnel Spirituel

Ce que les critiques en disent

“You don’t need to be a grammar nerd to enjoy this one… Who knew grammar could be so much fun?” —Newsweek

“Witty and instructive… Truss is an entertaining, well-read scold in a culture that could use more scolding.” —USA Today

“Truss is William Safire crossed with John Cleese’s Basil Fawlty.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Witty, smart, passionate, it gives long-overdue attention to ‘the traffic signals of language.’”—John Rechy, Los Angeles Times Book Review “Best Books of 2004: Nonfiction”

“Truss’s scholarship is impressive and never dry.” —Edmund Morris, The New York Times

“[Truss is] a reformer with the soul of a stand-up comedian.” —Boston Globe

“ This book changed my life in small, perfect ways like learning how to make better coffee or fold an omelet. It’s the perfect gift of anyone who cares about grammar and a gentle introduction for those who don’t care enough.” —Boston Sunday Globe

“Lynne Truss makes [punctuation] a joy to contemplate.” —Elle Magazine

“A witty look at the amusing foibles of punctuation.” —Reader’s Digest

“Lynne Truss has done the English-speaking world a huge service.” —The Christian Science Monitor

“Witty and playful.” —Time Out New York
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Also very short. I didn’t notice when I bought it. I did find value in it though.

Helpful, if you can survive the dry jokes

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