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Rating: 8.7 (5763 reviews)
Author: Lynne Truss

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Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens.We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good reason to suspect they never sank in. ‘Its Summer!’ screams a sign that sets our teeth on edge. ‘Pansy’s ready’, we learn to our considerable interest (‘Is she?’) as we browse among the bedding plants.It is not only the rules of punctuation that have come under attack but also a sense of why they matter. In this runaway bestseller, Lynne Truss takes the fight to emoticons and greengrocers’ apostrophes with a war cry of ‘Sticklers unite!’

At this time of writing, The Audiobook Eats, Shoots and Leaves has garnered 9 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Audiobook is Good TO READ!

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I really did want to like this book. However, first of all, it's mean spirited. I'm a stickler, and I'm comfortable with that. But I do not need to see those who are not sticklers put down and repeatedly called illiterate in order to feel better about myself.And that's not the only problem. It is appalling to see someone who is belittling others for their ignorance then point out that she herself is not a grammarian and believes that knowledge of subordinate clauses "is not a prerequisite for caring about where a bracket is preferred to a dash, or a comma needs to be replaced by a semicolon." Actually, you cannot properly punctuate a complex or compound-complex sentence unless you understand subordinate clauses--they often need commas, and many of her subordinate clauses are incorrectly punctuated. You also need grammar to understand that commas should not be between the verb and its direct object, between a preposition and its object, etc. Without a firm understanding of grammar, it is impossible to even discuss why a comma should or should not be in a particular place in a sentence.I don't ordinarily go around pointing this out about someone's writing in reviews, but since the entire purpose here is to discuss punctuation, it seems appropriate.She also makes a huge deal about some movie called Two Weeks Notice and how she feels that the title needed an apostrophe. Again, knowledge of grammar comes in handy here: the argument can be made that in that phrase, "two weeks" is descriptive, not possessive, and therefore, no apostrophe is necessary.All in all, I'm not happy with this book, and I wish I had checked it out from the library instead of buying it.

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