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author: Thomas Lux
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average rating: 4.20
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author: Nicole Blackman
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average rating: 4.14
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author: Robert Hamburger
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average rating: 4.10
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author: Jerry Seinfeld
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average rating: 3.69
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author: Chuck Norris
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average rating: 4.50
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author: Nigella Lawson
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author: Annie Gottlieb
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average rating: 3.71
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author: Diana Shaw
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average rating: 3.15
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author: David Joachim
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author: Jim Ross
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average rating: 3.33
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author: Russ Parsons
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average rating: 3.60
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author: J.D. Salinger
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average rating: 3.97
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]]> 18359134 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:56:15 -0700
author: Donald E. Westlake
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average rating: 4.00
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author: Ben Karlin
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average rating: 3.44
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author: Margaret Wise Brown
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average rating: 4.40
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]]> 9549457 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:11:37 -0700
But I think this book is mainly for people who are pretty clueless about grammar, or poseurs who think they're hardcore grammar snobs, but really aren't. (And yes, I realise what that makes me sound like.) If you want to read a good book that takes the subject seriously, pick up The King's English : A Guide to Modern Usage. Kingsley Amis might be a snob about grammar, and he may have written it as a crotchety old man, but his treatment lacks the outright meanness of Ms. Truss's book.]]>
author: Lynne Truss
name: Kevin
average rating: 3.87
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Speaking as a grammar perfectionist, "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" is an interesting but very broad take on English and American punctuation usage. It is a very quick read, most of the important points are made, and it is, for the most part, enjoyable. However, to be honest, Lynn Truss comes across as a bit of a bitch. If I had one criticism of the book itself, it wasn't any of the factual information contained in it, but the parts where Lynn tried in inject a bit of herself or relate a personal story. Particularly egregious is her treatment of a one-time pen pal from Detroit, which I have to say was the thing that really turned me off to her "personality". Look, I know if you're going to write a "zero tolerance approach to punctuation", you're going to come off as a bit of a snob no matter what you do. And for the grammar snobs who read it, there's a certain degree of pleasure you're going to get by someone else validating your snobbery. In and of itself, that's fine; that's the raison d'etre of the book.

But I think this book is mainly for people who are pretty clueless about grammar, or poseurs who think they're hardcore grammar snobs, but really aren't. (And yes, I realise what that makes me sound like.) If you want to read a good book that takes the subject seriously, pick up The King's English : A Guide to Modern Usage. Kingsley Amis might be a snob about grammar, and he may have written it as a crotchety old man, but his treatment lacks the outright meanness of Ms. Truss's book.
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author: Michael Van Walleghen
name: Kevin
average rating: 5.00
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]]> 19319813 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:20:06 -0700
author: Mark Haddon
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average rating: 3.74
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]]> 19319800 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:19:43 -0700
author: Yann Martel
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> 18359563 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:17:56 -0700
author: Stephen Dobyns
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> 18359555 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:17:07 -0700
author: Sharon Olds
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> 18359498 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:14:25 -0700
author: Tony Hillerman
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> 18359483 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:13:44 -0700
author: Nick Hornby
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average rating: 3.89
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author: Nick Hornby
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average rating: 2.90
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author: Nick Hornby
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author: Ruth Reichl
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average rating: 3.58
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author: Ruth Reichl
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> 15172468 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:46:55 -0800
author: Kingsley Amis
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average rating: 4.03
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author: Max Brooks
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average rating: 3.99
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author: Vern
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average rating: 4.62
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rating: 4
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]]> 10559521 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:55:49 -0800
author: Bill Bryson
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average rating: 4.33
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]]> 10559319 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:52:41 -0800
author: E.M. Forster
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average rating: 3.53
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]]> 10558920 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:45:24 -0800
author: Dave Eggers
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average rating: 3.52
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author: Tony Hawks
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average rating: 3.60
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author: Tony Hawks
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author: Anthony Bourdain
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author: Dave Eggers
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]]> 9556628 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:47:09 -0800
author: Frank Portman
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]]> 9549526 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:49:34 -0800
author: Jack Kerouac
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> 9549516 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:49:10 -0800
author: Robert Frank
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average rating: 4.81
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author: Jack Kerouac
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author: Jack Kerouac
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> 9549481 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:47:13 -0800
author: Jon Stewart
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average rating: 4.14
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]]> 2895484 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:55:46 -0800
author: Rob Sheffield
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average rating: 3.75
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I wasn't prepared for how sad the book was going to be, but it is uplifting at the same time. I never write these reviews, but I do recommend this book to anyone who cares to read it. I think it helps a lot if you're a music fan, and it reminded me of a lot of bands I used to love, but forgot I loved. Two thumbs up, five stars. All that.
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author: Anthony Swofford
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average rating: 3.58
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]]> 7746051 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:23:05 -0700
author: Scott O'Connor
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> 7746005 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:22:06 -0700
author: Naomi Kijima
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average rating: 3.38
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]]> 7745932 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:20:54 -0700
author: J.K. Rowling
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average rating: 4.18
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author: J.K. Rowling
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author: J.K. Rowling
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author: J.K. Rowling
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author: J.K. Rowling
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author: J.K. Rowling
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author: J.K. Rowling
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author: J.K. Rowling
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author: Nick Hornby
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author: Jeffrey Eugenides
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author: David Roberts
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average rating: 3.65
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author: Miranda July
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author: Bruce Campbell
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]]> 2745136 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:27:44 -0700
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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]]> 2745130 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:27:23 -0700
author: Bill Bryson
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> 2741150 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:06:22 -0700
author: Tom Coyne
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