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A review by breadgloves
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach To Punctuation by Lynne Truss
funny
informative
fast-paced
2.25
While this was a good resource for punctuation, the dry humor is not my cup of tea. There are unnecessary sexist remarks on women, slurs, and an insistence that people do not use proper grammar while texting. This book shows its age by referencing many written works of the time (early 2000s). I do think there are good points made about how punctuation has impacted the interoperation of religion, but that is a small section in the beginning of the book. If there were more examples of how punctuation has effected history, I would have enjoyed the book a lot more. This is definitely a book to keep for reference, but I would come into the book with the knowledge of it being from the early aughts and dry British humor.
Moderate: Sexism
Minor: Racial slurs