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Greedy Apostrophe: A Cautionary Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 178 ratings — published 2007
Finnegans Wake (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 13,872 ratings — published 1939
If It Makes You Happy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 94,842 ratings — published 2025
Carpenter's Gothic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 2,423 ratings — published 1985
Pies in the Oven (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.93 — 42 ratings — published 1996
ZIMBLE ZAMBLE ZUMBLE (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published 2002
2015 on Goodreads (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.23 — 769 ratings — published 2015
Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 891 ratings — published 1911
Bottom's Dream (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 126 ratings — published 1970
Adventures in 'Pataphysics: Collected Works I (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 152 ratings — published 2001
“To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.”
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“Note that the apostrophe in fuck's sake is necessary because fuck in this instance is a noun; therefore the word fuck is a possessive noun that takes an apostrophe.”
― Cursing with Style: A Dicktionary of Expletives
― Cursing with Style: A Dicktionary of Expletives