Sat 27 Oct 2007
Audio Book Review: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Cutting a Dash, The Radio Series That Inspired the Hit Book by Lynne Truss
Posted by James McBride under Arts & Entertainment
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"Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Cutting a Dash, The Radio Series That Inspired the Hit Bo" by Lynne Truss Length: 1 hour and 9 min. ISBN: 0-14-280082-1    New York Times Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with: Windows Media Player Real Player |
In 2002, Lynne Truss presented Cutting a Dash, a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation, which led to the writing of the UK number-one best seller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Presented here for the first time in America is the original landmark BBC Radio 4 program in its entirety.
Through sloppy usage and low standards on the Internet, in e-mail, and now “txt msgs”, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are.
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