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Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss is:
a. A fictional story of a panda on a shooting spree
b. An informative and humorous look at grammar and punctuation
c. A non-fiction description of pandas in the wild
d. A collection of haiku poetry
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Lynne Truss

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female

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Kingston upon Thames, The United Kingdom

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http://www.lynnetruss.com/

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Nonfiction

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Lynne Truss is a writer and journalist who started out as a literary editor with a blue pencil and then got sidetracked. The author of three novels and numerous radio comedy dramas, she spent six years as the television critic of The Times of London, followed by four (rather peculiar) years as a sports columnist for the same newspaper. She won Columnist of the Year for her work for Women's Journal. Lynne Truss also hosted Cutting a Dash, a popular BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation. She now reviews books for the Sunday Times of London and is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Brighton, England.

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avg rating: 3.79 | 11,660 ratings | 1,889 reviews | 21 distinct works | 27 fans

	Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss avg rating 3.82 — 9,515 ratings — published 2003 18 editions	my rating:
	Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door by Lynne Truss avg rating 3.40 — 821 ratings — published 2005 14 editions	my rating:
	Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! by Lynne Truss, Bonnie Timmons (Illustrator) avg rating 4.11 — 285 ratings — published 2006 2 editions	my rating:
	The Girl's Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can't Manage without Apostrophes! by Lynne Truss avg rating 4.09 — 76 ratings — published 2007 2 editions	my rating:
	The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels by Lynne Truss avg rating 3.85 — 46 ratings — published 2005 3 editions	my rating:
	Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, every punctuation mark counts! by Lynne Truss, Bonnie Timmons (illustrator) avg rating 3.88 — 33 ratings — published 2008	my rating:
	Cutting a Dash by Lynne Truss avg rating 3.76 — 21 ratings — published 2004 3 editions	my rating:
	Making the Cat Laugh by Lynne Truss avg rating 3.85 — 13 ratings — published 1996 5 editions	my rating:
	With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed by Lynne Truss avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published 1994 4 editions	my rating:
	Tennyson's Gift by Lynne Truss avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 1996 6 editions	my rating:

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quotes by Lynne Truss

"Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.""
— Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)

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"What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the end of the world. Are they being alarmist?"
— Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)

tags: british, english, grammar, humor, language, lynne, punctuation, sentence, structure, truss

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"Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking."
— Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)

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