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ADKbrown	Post subject: Eats, Shoots & Leaves Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:09 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	Anyone who is thinking of buying this grammar book should read the review in the New Yorker a week ago. It was panned.
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majorbabs	Post subject: Re: Eats, Shoots & Leaves Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:13 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 744 Location: HuskerLand	No doubt. God forbid the NYT actually advocate a book a reader could actually enjoy. Who knows what kind of chaos would ensue.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Eats, Shoots & Leaves Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:16 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	The official Testy Copy Editors position on the book is that we don't like it, partly because of the oft-discussed punctuation error in the subtitle.
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EMorse	Post subject: Re: Eats, Shoots & Leaves Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:55 pm
Joined: Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:01 am Posts: 1025 Location: The Lexington Avenue Spaceship	I haven't read the book, but I did read the New Yorker's review, and the criticisms sounded reasonable -- apparently, errors and inconsistencies aren't limited to the title, but the reviewer's main purpose was to put the book in a bigger social context. A key sentence: “ 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' is really a 'decline of print culture' book disguised as a style manual (poorly disguised). Truss has got things mixed up because she has confused two aspects of writing: the technological and the aesthetic."
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bwalsh	Post subject: Re: Eats, Shoots & Leaves Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:24 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 29, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 138 Location: Washington, D.C.	My official "Me? Envious?" review:<p>The book is fine as an airplane read, but the topic (Jesus Fucking Christ, a lot of signs sure do have apostrophe errors!) is more suited to a Dave Barry column than to a 200-plus-page book. <p>And the punctuation error in the title still floors me.
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