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93. Eats, Shoots and Leaves de Lynne Truss
Qui eût cru que la ponctuation puisse faire rire? Pourtant c'est bien le cas dans ce catilinaire de Truss qui refuse le silence face aux abus de la langue anglaise (comme quoi, les anglophones se moquent beaucoup moins de l'Académie française!). His ...
... look at motherhood and its modern extremes (the Jag stroller was one of my favourites.
I'm continuing the humour vein with Eats, Shoots, and Leaves Lynn Truss's now famous book on punctuation. Much laughter although her abuse on "stupid people" can be over the top.
I just finished Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss and found it disappointing. While her last book Eats, Shoots, and Leaves was funny and objective, this was just whiny and self righteous. As she doesn't think talking loudly on a cell phone in public is rude or inconsiderate, she lost all ...
...
Miles From Nowhere by Nami Mun (my Postcolonial Lit class is broadening my interests)
The Lynne Truss Treasury I love Eats Shoots and Leaves and this was only $1.40
Got two more in the mail from PBS this week too:
Daggerspell by Katherine Kerr
The Sacrifice The First Book of The F ...
The Fight for English: How the Pundits Ate, Shot and Left by David Crystal. Nice counterpoint to Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
... Literature
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The First Man by Albert Camus
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
... or quotation marks? (or was it Dwarvish?)
Speak friend and enter
Speak "friend" and enter
Speak, friend, and enter
Eats, shoots, and leaves
... myself to a lifetime of misery searching for the impossibly perfect cataloging site.
(Sorry, I just started reading Eats, Shoots and Leaves and it seem too appropriate.)
Know-it-all
1- Small is beautiful
2- Last child in the wood - started Dec 7 2009
3- The assault on reason
4- Eats, shoots and leaves
5- In cold blood - started Oct 19 2009 - finished Oct 23 2009
... etymology: Anonyponymous
423--English dictionaries: The Professor and the Madman
428--Standard English usage: Eats, Shoots and Leaves
430--Germanic languages; German:
438--Standard German usage: Handbuch zur Deutschen Grammatik
440--Romance languages; French: ...
Eats Shoots and Leaves ?
... than they can read. We can then say, "Well, at least I'm not as bad as she is!" ;-))
Loved the title story of Eats, Shoots and Leaves as well as the two sentences that you also noted. The rest of the book was more serious, and the tone was more officious, than I had expected, so ...
... like you bought a good book! I'm a translator, so 'correct' use of language is important in my work. A colleague lent me Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Book #39 Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
This book was witty and informative. I may never write anything ever again. Ever!
I don't know if Rebeki was serious when she dared me to "go to the bookshop without my list." This is the NON-LIST, ...
428.2 Eats, Shoots, and Leaves - Lynn Truss
428.2 Eats, Shoots, and Leaves - Lynn Truss
400 – Language
428.2 Eats, Shoots, and Leaves - Lynn Truss
... what you and #19 is talking. That was a great class, we had eight books ranging from The Return of Martin Guerre to Eats Shoots and Leaves If anybody is interested in all eight they are tagged HST206 in my library.
... on
The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
Amerika: The Missing Person by Franz Kafka (2008 translation by Mark Harman)
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
The Devil in the Hills by Cesare Pavese
... "Smiths Computer's" (name changed to protect the guilty). I wanted to ask, "Smiths Computer's what?" You'll note that Eats, Shoots and Leaves is in my my "read by not owned" collection! I highly recommend it to other punctuation perfectionists.
... been told by lots of people that I would like Outlander so maybe I'll pick it up with you in the fall. ;)
I finished Eats, Shoots and Leaves and I really enjoyed it! (Review here if anyone's curious.) It was a ...
... Farm 4.22 (NLS)
10 An Abundance of Katherines 4.17 (com)
11 Hard Eight 5.8 (com)
12 Olive's Ocean 5.16 (com)
13 Eats, Shoots and Leaves 5.25 (NLS)
14 Wicked 7.1 (NLS)
15 The Wordy Shipmates 7.14 (com)
16 The Thin Man 7.22 (NLS)
17 Growing up Cuban in Decatur, Georgia 7.23 ...
... if you read that you might as well tackle Ellison's Invisible Man (if you haven't already)...
#116 I haven't read Eats, Shoots and Leaves . Honestly, I don't even have a decent excuse as to why not... Maybe I'll read it this summer.
Finished Eats, Shoots and Leaves yesterday. It's a must-read for every snob.
This month I started working my way through the Europa Editions catalogue (just began reading The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante), and I cannot get enough!
... quasi-home town).
And here's my latest library haul:
Magic Kingdom For Sale -- Sold!
Morality For Beautiful Girls
Eats Shoots and Leaves
Gentlemen and Players
...
Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
The Federalist Papers - Hamilton and Madison
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
A Manual for writers - Turabian
-- Strunk and White's Manual of Style
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
How to Win Friends and Influence Peopl ...
>6
The chapter on hyphens in Eats, Shoots and Leaves
How could we have forgotten Eats, Shoots, and Leaves ?
I took What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew and Eats, Shoots, and Leaves along in the car when we drove up to see my daughter. Both are good for browsing through, which was what I needed. It's been a rough couple of days.
BTW, I noticed that omaca's review of Eats, Shoots, and Leaves is a hot review this morning. Congrats! Not bad for the first week.
... adventures of english
423 English dictionaries The professor and the madman
428 Standard English usage Eats, shoots, and leaves
439 Other Germanic languages Born to kvetch
Missing Second Levels:
400s
410s
440s
450s
460s
470s
480s
490s
... statistical information. The time periods were well-chosen and explicated nicely according to political change.
5NF.) Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss
I may have a new favorite author. This was an outstanding little book about punctuation. Of course, I am hardly one of the ...
... Infinite Jest
20. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
21. Beloved
22. The Handmaid's Tale
23. Freakonomics
24. Eats, Shoots and Leaves (Another I've read)
25. The Tipping Point (Yet another)
What do you know--I've actually read five of them--a fifth of the list. Of course, ...
Currently reading adoration of jenna fox, artemis fowl lost colony and eats shoots and leaves . 2 science fiction and 1 random British punctuation guide with attitude...
... them soon, especially Book of Lost Things.
My books this month: Adoration of Jenna Fox, artemis fowl lost colony and eats shoots and leaves . (Apparently I'm a stickler when it comes to punctuation. who knew?)
... Well-Tempered Sentence and The Transitive Vampire) so it often becomes easier to remember the rules. Lots of folks like Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Truss, but her style annoys me. For fun and to learn how to diagram a sentence so you always remember how to parse, try Sister Bernadette's Bark ...
... in the mail yesterday! :)
Bad news:
Apostrophes are being banned on street signs in England. What would the author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves say to this?
...
Coraline was great! I'm passing the book on to a couple family members for before we see the movie. I'm still reading Eats, Shoots and leaves so I'm not going to starting another book until Sunday. It's going to be a long week next week. I foresee a lot of reading.
... - civil war, genocide, refugee struggles - that makes it so difficult to read. But I've heard tons of good things about Eats, Shoots and Leaves so it's on my TBR for later this year! (I looked for it on my recent library trip, but it was all checked out!)
... Card; sufficiently creepy without being overly gory.
El, if you're loathe to read non-fiction (like me!), do pick up Eats, Shoots and Leaves - it's like cheating because it's such a fun book :)
I have SO MANY BOOKS to read!!! I'm really enjoying my OotP reread, but my TBR shelves keep ...
This isn't nearly as exciting as Bib's GN, but...
GN: I had a paperbackswap book come in the mail yesterday -- Eats, Shoots and Leaves . :)
GN: It's Friday!
... ago that was....) and he remains one of my all time favorite authors!
#305 - I've heard so many good things about Eats, Shoots and Leaves that I might have to add it to my nonfiction TBR list for this year.
Right now I'm reading a political book about legislature on science and stem ...
... it was a bad combination of nonfiction without a fiction book on the side, and not being well. I'm going to go back to Eats, Shoots and Leaves and try picking up Coraline.
... did not like.
Wow, that is really annoying. I will henceforth never switch me and I again! Also, I need to get a copy of Eats, Shoots, and Leaves . I started reading it while I was working as a writing tutor during college, but I was never able to finish it due to lack of time. I remember it ...
... book that sounds similar called Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English. I love it. Now I'll have to read Eats, Shoots, and Leaves too.
You're welcome, cmbohn.
I'm rereading Eats, Shoots and Leaves .
Entered my first 400 - Eats, Shoots, and Leaves a book I actually read last year and forgot to enter.
... Way
423 English dictionaries The Professor and the Madman
428 Standard English usage Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
I read all but Twilight, Eats, Shoots and Leaves and Ending an Ending.
Twilight I just can't bring myself to start. There has been so much hype and I'm not a vampire story fan, and even though friends have recommended and got me the book I just can't quite do it.
Eats, Shoots and Lea ...
3. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation ... by Lynn Truss
A fun approach to the rules of punctuation with some interesting history. It is very thorough and has some comment on email and text messaging. There are some differences in English and American usage ...
I grit my teeth at The Eight by Katherine Neville, at Eats, Shoots, and Leaves , at Nora Ephron writing anything, at the The Mists of Avalon, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and virtually anything Oprah Winney likes. This is a great list. I could keep going for ages. The Catcher ...
... How to Write a Romance, Kathryn Falk (February)
3. How I Write, Janet Evanovich with Ina Yalof (June)
4. Eats, Shoots and Leaves , Lynne Truss (June)
5. This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley (July)
6. The Grammatically Correct Handbook, Wllie Grossman ( ...
My first pile of books are, Ending an Ending, Night Shift, The House Next Door, Twilight, Santa Fe Dead and Eats, Shoots and Leaves .
... Levitt
Alternatives:
Lucky Jim by Kinsley Amis
Blaming the Victim by William Ryan
Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Slut! by Leora Tanenbaum
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Under the Banner of Hea ...
... got an ornament with a picture of my family on it, a blue carpet rug for my wooden floor, chocolate covered pretzels, and Eats, Shoots, and Leaves .
400-499 - Language
15 not assigned
428.2 Eats, Shoots, and Leaves; The Zero Approach to Punctuation Lynne Truss
Currently reading Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss and Miracle by Deborah Smith.
... 4/25/09
5. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman (4, 7) 5/28/09
6. Eats, Shoots and Leaves (4, 7) 6/22/09
7. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell 9/30/09
8. The Monster of Florence
51. Bootlegger's Daughter Margaret Maron.
52. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves Lynne Truss
53.Remember ME? Sophie Kinsella
54. The Good Husband on Zebra Drive Alexander McCall Smith.
55. Senator's Wife Sue Miller
56.What Happened Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Decept ...
... above were for summer fun except the Hammett. I was hoping it would help me learn la lingua espanola. It did not.
18. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss
19. The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Davis
20. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-181 ...
... War, with an apostraphe. (And yes, Warner Brothers mispunctuated the title of Two Weeks Notice . Go read Eats, Shoots and Leaves this bit of the Wikipedia page.)
... by F. Springer. I'm about to start with London fields by Martin Amis and I want to read some chapters in Eats, shoots and leaves by Lynne Truss.
Furthermore I'm reading A pirate of exquisite mind for the group read. About to start the second part of the book maybe this ...
... of Hill Top Farm 4.22.09
10) An Abundance of Katherines 4.17.09
11) Hard Eight
12) Olive's Ocean 5.16.09
13) Eats Shoots and Leaves
I'd also like to listen to To Kill a Mockingbird. I'd also like to listen to some Margaret Atwood and some Toni Morrison in '09.
Another member of the Punctuation Police here. I loved Eats, Shoots and Leaves . And the Purple one gave me a chuckle because she unconsciously (was it unconscious?) edited the title to remove that comma!
Yes, Teelgee I thought Eats Shoots and Leaves was very well done. I heard a lot about it and a lot of people thought she needed to get down off her high horse but the impression I got was that she was taking the mickey out of herself as much as the people who don't use grammar properly. It was ...
Some more!
45) Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
46) Eats Shoots and Leaves Lynne Truss
47) Lark Rise to Candleford Flora Thompson
48) Like Ali Smith
49) Gone to Earth Mary Webb
50) Closing the Book Stevie Davies
... a bit disappointing because I have read a lot of reviews that said it was rather incoherent and no where near as funny as Eats, Shoots and Leaves , which I loved. It was funny, but not a well-reasoned argument, which I think it was supposed to be. I did expect to like the Prose book quite a ...
... and Boots: Gardening Together with Children by Sharon Lovejoy (hope that's not too much of a stretch from "garden").
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
Fletcher and the Falling Leaves by Julia Rawlinson
Snow Falling on Cedars by David G ...
... or b) review is offensive. Might I suggest another option? c) review is for wrong book. When looking at the reviews for Eats, Shoots and Leaves (a book about grammar) I found the following reviews:
"A great book to teach kids about the safety of the road. It teaches them about ...
Just received Eats, shoots and leaves by Lynne Truss
How about Mind the Gaffe! and/or Eats, Shoots and Leaves good thing for "dorm life" -- and both are, technically, writing guides.
... a fall history class. I just finished the first and am starting the second. These should keep me busy for a few weeks.
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss
The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Davis
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard by Laurel T. Ulrich
Dead ...
... ago when it was out in hardcover.
Very funny in parts. It is partly a piss-take of Doctor Who and partly a piss-take of Eats, Shoots And Leaves also as one might expect from Adam Roberts it is quite clever.
... how historically accurate it was. I think any book that makes me want to read about history must be a great one.
121. Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
I need to learn more about grammar. This is an interesting book. I enjoyed finding out how apostrophes first were used. Then I ...
... burn
Crazy Salad Plus Nine
Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Eats Shoots and Leaves
Cooking for Mr. Latte
Ella Minnow Pea
The Man Who Tasted Shapes
Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog
... and Carpe Demon by Julie Kenner. For the little Guy: Five Little Monkeys and Miffy at the Gallery.
From PBS:
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
I got Eats, Shoots and Leaves today via BookMooch. I've been thinking about reading this book for a long time, and I finally decided to mooch it based on LiterateHousewife's recommendation.
... as my library has grown I've had to come up with a more organized system. (I realized this after buying my third copy of Eats Shoots and Leaves , each time not realizing I already owned it.) I now have them separated by genre -- classics, mystery, YA, science fiction, etc. -- and then ...
... has been to determine whether or not the knuckles of French schoolboys will be rapped by their teachers."
>1 I thought Eats, Shoots and Leaves was hilarious, despite its prescriptivism. I'm sorry you didn't. I think it soothed me a bit that it was mostly about punctuation; since language is ...
... - fascinated me. After my final exam a few weeks ago, I went to the library and picked up some spring break reading:
Eats, Shoots and Leaves (not because I got the idea that this is a scholarly work, but because my heavily descriptivist prof made fun of it so much that I had to read it. I ...
Thinking of Eats, Shoots and Leaves .
If anyone has any ideas for improving my son's spelling and capitalization, I'm open to suggestions. I'm thinking it's time to pull out the old Scrabble board...
... but i feel better for having read it: i smiled at the end and that's indicative of my enjoyment.
i should be done with eats shoots and leaves tomorrow; i've probably read it, start to finish, 6 or 7 times in the last two weeks.
when i was done with the beckett today, i picked up a ...
... Moon by Alice Sebold
9.) The Color Purple by Alice Walker
10.) Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
11.) Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
If anyone is interested, I highly recommend numbers 1, 5, 6, 9, and 10. Don't read number 7 unless you really like Stephen Colbert ...
... this morning; hoping to start Dream of fair to middling women by beckett tonight.
i'm also still reading Eats, shoots and leaves --i'm taking my time though:rereading each chapter a few times. should be done with it soon--fingers crossed
... then moved back and he had gone-I was sorry to loose the great recommendations.
-I know Lynne Truss is best known for Eats, Shoots, and leaves , but Talk to the Hand does NOT belong in the grammar section.
Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss. I really enjoyed her first book Eats, Shoots and Leaves and this one is almost as good but not quite. Still it's a very funny, entertaining and thought-provoking read about the sad state of modern-day manners.
... Lukyanenko. I'm really enjoying it so far; it's much more detailed than the movie was. I'm also about half way through Eats, shoots and leaves by Lynne Truss which I think is helping me finally understand punctuation, and is also a very funny read.
... Driven Life. We also own Deception Point and Digital Fortress which my wife has read and I have not. Also we have Eats, Shoots and leaves
We have all the Harry Potter books as well as Eragon. We also have one of the Lemony Snicket books, but may have disposed of it.
I'm going to get into bed early tonight with a cup of tea and make a start on No country for old men and eats, shoots and leaves .
... : My Dad got me this for Christmas, and I really liked it, partly because I love everything concerning Scotland.
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation : This was quite a lot of fun. I suggest it to most anyone, especially and language enthusiast.
Rais ...
Best fiction: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Worst fiction: No contest - House of Leaves
Non Fiction-
Best: Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Worst: The Devil in the White City A big disappointment to me.
Books I've read so far this year:
1. Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
2. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Lynne Truss
3. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction - J.D. Salinger
4. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
5. Cr ...
... this one after Xmas but read more than half of it last night - finally got caught up in it. This is Crystal's rebuttal to Eats Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss. His premise is that English is constantly changes and some of our grammar and punctuation rules are arbitrary. The British school ...
... meanings. (I was trying to be subtle.)
Mind the Gaffe! is a good piece of writing reference. Sort of like Eats, Shoots and Leaves
... & Old English -- Mother Tongue
423 English dictionaries -- The Professor and the Madman
428 Standard English usage -- Eats, Shoots and Leaves
... in 15 years. Now all I have to do is find a place to work it!
I've got to read Accomodating Brocolli. I recently read Eats, Shoots and Leaves which drew some strange looks - "You're reading a book about punctuation?" (I also had an interesting time trying to explain James Thurber to my ...
... dictionaries: The Professor and the Madman
427 English language variations: Swearing
428 Standard English usage: Eats, Shoots and Leaves
429 Old English: Word-Hoard
422 French etymology: Le Franglais
439 Other Germanic languages: lots of books about Yiddish in this ...
... A History
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PC Invitation au Monde Francophone
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PE Eats, Shoots and Leaves Film Art: An Introduction (no idea why)
PQ The Name of the Rose
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... -- I'm too lazy to hunt down the right touchstone )
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423 Mind the Gaffe!
428 Eats, Shoots and Leaves 448 Invitation au Monde Francophone -- the introductory French textbook my college used.
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509 Coming of Ag ...
Reminds me of some of the under-hyphenation ambiguities in Eats, Shoots and Leaves
... commas in lists, where individual items may already have commas in them. (Lynne Truss called them "comma fights" in Eats, Shoots and Leaves
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PA Greek language and literature; Latin language and literature: Latin Language and Latin Culture
PE English Language: Eats, Shoots and Leaves
PG Slavic languages; Baltic languages; Albanian language: Crime and Punishment
PJ Oriental philology and literature: The Linguist and the Empero ...
... Old English: The Mother Tongue
423--English dictionaries: The Professor and the Madman
428--Standard English usage: Eats, Shoots and Leaves
438--Standard German usage: Handbuch zur Deutschen Grammatik
458--Standard Italian usage: Italian Phrase Book TM 30-603 (Restricted)
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423 English Dictionaries: The Professor and The Madman by Simon Winchester
428 Standard English Usage: Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
510 Mathematics: The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
511 General Principles: Four Colours Suffice by Robi ...
... & Old English: The Mother Tongue
423 English Dictionaries: The Professor and the Madman
428 Standard English Usage: Eats, Shoots and Leaves
470 Italic; Latin: Latin Language and Latin Culture by Joseph Farrell
480 Hellenic Languages; Classical Greek: Who Killed Homer?
487 Preclas ...
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The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left by David Crystal. I loved Lynn Truss' book Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation and this is sort of an alternative perspective on the issue, so I'm looking forward to it. Plus, I like D ...
... up The Fight for English by David Crystal - it is kind of a response to the phenomenal success of Lynn Truss' Eats, Shoots and Leaves: A Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation . While I really loved the latter and can probably be somewhat of a grammar Nazi myself, the part of me ...
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The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left by David Crystal. I loved Lynn Truss' book Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation and this is sort of an alternative perspective on the issue, so I'm looking forward to it. Plus, I ...
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
... inte skicka ett nytt meddelande så jag svarar på det här (är åtminstone ungefär samma område).
Jag separerade Komma rätt, komma fel och komma till punkt från Eats, Shoots & Leaves eftersom den svenska versionen är "byggd på" och inte en översättning av det engelska verket. T ...
Jag separerade Komma rätt, komma fel och komma till punkt från Eats, Shoots & Leaves eftersom den svenska versionen är "byggd på" och inte en översättning av det engelska verket. Trots det står den svenska titeln kvar över de andra utgåvorna. Kommer det att åtgärda sig själv eller bà ...
Jag separerade Komma rätt, komma fel och komma till punkt från Eats, Shoots & Leaves eftersom den svenska versionen är "byggd på" och inte en översättning av det engelska verket. Trots det står den svenska titeln kvar över de andra utgåvorna. Kommer det att åtgärda sig själv eller bà ...
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I'm also reading Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire and Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss--hilarious, as was her Eats, Shoots and Leaves . I'm on a burst of non-fiction amongst my summer reading!
Just started Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss. I don't expect it to take too long. I think I'll be reading Around the World with Mark Twain after that.
... drugstore today - was intrigued by the title!
I would like to know more about "The Fight for English" - is it similar to Eats Shoots and Leaves or is it taking an opposite approach? I enjoyed ES and L very much - I am an English teacher (ESL) so it's right up my alley.
I am almost finished ...
... which argues against a "zero tolerance" approach to punctuation and changes in english grammar and usage. I also loved Eats Shoots and Leaves last year -- and I get angry when I see the sign in my parking lot that reads "small car's only".
I started the month with Promise Not to Tell. ...
#21-23, I'm an editor and I HATED Eats, Shoots and Leaves . I'm still mad at myself for buying it, and in hard cover at that!
katiekins, I loved Eats Shoots and Leaves and also enjoyed The Fight for English: How the Pundits ate, shot, and left.
I'm about to start Time Traveler by Dr. Ronald L. Mallett which someone mentioned in the earlier thread (before we started this new one). I get a lot of suggestions ...
I just finished Eats Shoots and Leaves and am about to start Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors by Helena Silverstein
Woe Is I by Patricia T. O'Conner is a less snarky Eats, Shoots, and Leaves .
... funny that I've just read this thread because last night at my local bookstore I picked up and read the first chapter of Eats, shoots, and leaves . I was going to buy the book because I had heard a lot of good things about it but I couldn't stand the attitude/tone of the author so I changed my ...
I've just started The Fight for English: How the Pundits Ate, Shot and Left. I thoroughly enjoyed Eats Shoots and Leaves so I thought I'd try this rebuttal.
... the reading of children's books.
Now I'm reading The Taking, also for work. I still need to finish:
World War Z
Eats, Shoots and Leaves , and
Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Like my shirt says - So many books, so little time
#38 demiguise:
Eats, Shoots and Leaves is a riot. I want to be Lynne Truss's friend, even if it would mean living in perpetual grammatical paranoia.
#34 ellevee- I loved Eats, Shoots and Leaves ! I found it to be humorous and a quick read.
... utiful.
Today in the park I read Jesus' Son, which was amazing. I'm reading three books at once, entirely by accident:
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, and
World War Z
I usually try to avoid doing this, but it seems to have happened without my knowledge or ...
From Eats, Shoots and Leaves , the introduction by Frank McCourt:
You never thought a book on punctuation could contain raw sex? Well, here is Lynne Truss bemoaning the sad fact she never volunteered to have the babies of Aldus Manutius the Elder (1450-1515). (Help! In that last sentence ...
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#4 and others:
I am not an editor, but I hate Eats, Shoots ,and leaves all the same.
... tome, but I'm going to count it as three books (because it does contain three works).
Book number seven, therefore, is Eats, Shoots and Leaves , a book about punctuation.
Book number eight is Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions to help me prepare for job ...
I really enjoyed Eats Shoots and Leaves . I've just ordered The Fight for English: How the Pundits Ate, Shot and Left by David Crystal and am looking forward to this opposing view on the importance of good grammar and punctuation.
I just finished Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss and thought it was terrific! Lots of fun and informative about punctuation.Today I read The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell I think that his theories are worth looking at by anyone dealing with change in an organization.
... Not only a history of Coke, and of America, but some great management and marketing lessons can be gleaned as well.
Eats Shoots and Leaves was hilarious -- and, as a fan of punctuation, kind of sad.
I have just started Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss I like her style and approach.
... by Gary Shteyngart and The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean. I am now in need of non-fiction. Just started Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
... : Site Search : Search works--remains UNSOLVED.
3. - And so is the bug as indicated in Message 7.3--Touchstones for e.g. Koken voor elke dag .
... s.php?searchbox=koken+voor+elke+dag).
3. - Most probably related to the latter bug, Touchstones doesn't recognise e.g. Koken voor elke dag Koken voor elke dag and ...
... solution.
Then again, you have got luck indeed, because there aren't that many different Dutch language editions of Eten, vuren en beuken. Keiharde regels voor interpunctie Eats, shoots & leaves by Lynne Truss).
Methin ...
'until makind loses it's fear of death'
One of you needs to read Eats, Shoots and Leaves .
... family raved about it, and I do like historical fiction, but this one did not do it for me.
I agree with rebeccanyc on Eats, Shoots and Leaves . I didn't bother finishing it.
I must say I liked Eats, Shoots and Leaves and Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell very much.
As for the highly acclaimed one I hated, it would have to be The Catcher In The Rye. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen and it never did.
Rebeccanyc,
I have to confess I am a punctuation challeged person so i found Eat, Shoots and Leaves to be an absolute riot. I break out in hives at the site of grammer and punctuation related reading material with flash backs to grammer school sitting in a corner with a dunce cap on. So for me ...
I hated Eats, Shoots and Leaves even though (or maybe because) I'm an editor, and a fussy one at that. I'm very annoyed at myself for having bought it in hard cover.
... two. Let me tell you, the Susan B. Anthony is not what you'd expect from all the stiff photos of her!
Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots and Leaves and R. L. Trask's Mind the Gaffe! are basically always out, if for no other reason that they're good for a laugh about what can go wrong in ...
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Hmmm. An English major with a copy of Eats Shoots and Leaves ? Your post gives the lie to those claims ... ;-)
I also loved Eats, Shoots and Leaves . However, I loved The Time Traveler's Wife and Never Let Me Go.
How do you manage to read so many books in one month?
... silly book written when Susann was no longer getting acting roles, but before she seriously (?) took up writing.
17. Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss - Loved this book. The author and I would be kindred spirits if I were half as smart and witty as she is.
18. The Falls by Joyc ...
#9, Opinions differ on Eats, Shoots and Leaves (as they do on all books, of course) -- I truly hated it, after expecting to love it.
And I forgot to mention Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean, the beautiful and moving story of a Montana forest fire.
... does that say about the great British public, reducing books to the level of a vase.
If the readers that can't finish Eats, Shoots and Leaves have the intelligence of plankton, what level are these non-readers?
... I fear, sometimes have more bearing on a books success than real merit. Without the fanfare I doubt that Lynne Truss's book Eats, Shoots, and Leaves would have sold in the numbers it did. Richard and Judy is just one part of this bookselling industry.
I'm editing that to say (in the interests ...
1. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss
... time I see it my brain goes "Ack! No! Mermaid's or Mermaids'! Oh... wait... no, that's okay." EVERY TIME. I blame Eats, Shoots, and Leaves , which I read the week before last.)
Also listened to The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket and have started The Hostile Hospital. They're not ...
... I reviewed it, so you can read my trashing of it there if you want. Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss. Her Eats, Shoots and Leaves cracked me up, but this one was a much too obvious attempt to strike the same gold twice, and it just didn't work. And Sherlock in Love; ...
... Meaning of Night; A Confession and have started Talk to the Hand although it doesn't seem to have the same sparkle that Eats, Shoots and Leaves has. Seems more forced. For example she has a summary for each of ther six good reasons to stay home and bolt the door, and that seems enough, she ...
Off the top of my head, books that have made me laugh out loud:
Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots, and Leaves (I probably just botched the punctuation there) and Talk to the Hand;
Bill Bryson's I'm a Stranger Here Myself
and parts of Louis Cha's The Deer and the Cauldron
... of them, there are hundreds more to choose from. Well, over a hundred anyway.
This year I got the children's version of Eats, shoots, and leaves for one of my great-nephs. I got another book on great painters for another (who claims to be "arty"). I have bought the Magic Tree House ...
... finished:
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Stopped about 40 pages in. Not my style. May try again another time.
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Finished about half. Got boringly repetitive.
Flowers in the Attic
I had fond rememberances of reading this as a teen. I should have left it ...
... in the industry (and maybe off flying too); Lynn Truss's opinion piece on manners Talk to the Hand - not a patch on Eats shoots and Leaves ; Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin - her style isn't the smoothest, but the book illuminates her life with autism with great clarity and ...
... I was annoyed for a while too, until I read that stores have the authority to make that decision - that might have been in Eats, Shoots and Leaves .
... Rising for all the wrong reasons, but it was great dumb fun anyway.
I finished Jess Walter's NBA-nominated novel The Zero the other day and was fairly disappointed with it, not finding much to like about either the characters or plot, and the conspicuous shallowness of both finally ...
... Martin, still not my favourite of the series, but the focus on Arya didn't dissapoint.
Have picked up this evening Eats, shoots and leaves by Lynne Truss and am having utter paroxysms of delight thus far.
... on line--everybody is eager to have me set them right on the difference between its and it's and so on).
Have you read Eats, Shoots and Leaves ? I loved it. Bad grammer and bad spelling are two of my pet peeves. I've been known to aggravate many a friend over issues of spelling...!
re message 38:
I agree that Eats Shoots and Leaves is somewhat light and not very academic as an instructional guide, but I suspect that that's why it became a bestseller here - it's hard to tell whether it's aimed at people being smug because they already know what they're doing, or at those ...
I thought I would love Eats Shoots and Leaves but I HATED it. I thoroughly disliked Lynne Truss's tone; I thought some of the points she made were actually incorrect (although I can't remember what they were now, as I've tried to block the book out of mind), and I thought she stretched what ...
Eats, Shoots & Leaves is very popular out here. I can't belive I don't have my own copy!
... up" a movie. Aaaargh!
I'm not sure how successful it was in the US, but there's a fantastic bestseller here called Eats Shoots and Leaves which is very entertaining. Zero tolerance!
Someone keeps combining Eats, shoots and leaves : the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation with the children's book Eats, shoots and leaves : why, commas really do make a difference.
A 209 p. adult book is not the same as a 30 p. children's picture book. I have both and don't want them ...
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