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ASIN: 1592400876 ID #108108 |
Product Type: Book
Reviewer: A Non-Existent User Review Rated: E | Amazon's Price: $ 11.76
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Summary of this Book... | ||
An unbelievably hilarious treatment of errors in punctuation and usage in the English language. Most of the focus is on usage in the U.K., but Ms. Truss's comments do cross the pond as well. The author manages to take a potentially soporific subject and inject it with her own brand of humor and wit, so it becomes a scintillating read. Must-read for any author! | ||
This type of Book is good for... | ||
Anyone who loves words and language, and especially for those who are also "sticklers" as Ms. Truss is. | ||
I especially liked... | ||
Her humorous take on the frustration she feels at how the mangling of English is becoming more and more accepted. | ||
I didn't like... | ||
I can't really think of anything I didn't like. | ||
When I finished reading this Book I wanted to... | ||
I wished I had written it myself, darn it! | ||
This Book made me feel... | ||
Like going out with a magic marker and correcting all those messed-up signs in store windows! | ||
The author of this Book... | ||
Deserves an award for humorously raising the bar on correct punctuation in everyday usage of English. | ||
I recommend this Book because... | ||
Without it, you just might (GASP!!) misuse a comma, or its benighted cousin, the semicolon. | ||
I don't recommend this Book because... | ||
Only if you the sort of person who wonders what all the fuss is about when someone puts a comma in the wrong place in a sentence, totally distorting its meaning. | ||
Further Comments... | ||
Either buy this book or borrow it, but READ IT. | ||
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Created Jul 01, 2005 at 10:51am •
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