Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss

Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Lynne Truss

出版社

Gotham

出版时间

2004-04-01

ISBN

9781592400874

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

"Eats, Shoots & Leaves" has sold over 3 million copies world-wide. This illustrated version for children shows how the humble comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely. You might want to eat a huge hot dog, but a huge, hot dog would run away pretty quickly if you tried to take a bite out of him. 'Children Drive Slowly' on a road-sign doesn't quite sum up what kids do in their spare time. And we all know now that the comma in 'Eats shoots and leaves' is a crucial one. Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons illuminate the hilarious confusion that one mere dot with a tail can cause, in this follow-up to the number one best-seller "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" - which this time features lively and subversive pictures by one of America's leading illustrators. This picture book is sure to elicit gales of laughter and better punctuation from all who read it.

LYNNE TRUSS is the author of the New York Times bestsellerTalk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door, and The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels . Eats, Shoots & Leaves, for which she won Britain’s Book of the Year Award, has sold over three million copies worldwide. Truss is a regular hos...

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用户评论
The punctuation marks hv a long history 2 tell. Funny & informative. But the author looks like a panda herself -- a skinned one, though. ^_^
行文幽默风趣,对标点用法有一些很有意义的评论,但是没有太多实践指导作用。
现在想来,这本书里那个经典的笑话,是不是该算冷笑话呢?有空应该再翻一遍~
作者屁話真多,又沒什麼乾貨
中學的時候不知從哪裡找來讀過,學到了寫一些snobbish的文章為樂www
没意思
Ryan's recommendation for THE PANDA'S JOKE Giving up after 2 chapters…This rubbish tells everything but the right way to use punctuation. Great job. : )
可怕!远离这些杞人忧天、自我标榜的老古板,格外重要!
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