Book Review

Title : Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Author : Lynne Truss
Yr of Published : 2005



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Lynne Truss is regular host on BBC Radio 4, a Times (London) columnist, and the author of numerous radio comedy dramas. She wrote quite a number of books e.g. "Talk to the Hand" and she is a very critical novelist with a very different and sharp point of view. Her books are also very easy reading.

I got to know her when a classmate did a book review on her bestseller "Eats, Shoots and Leaves". Below is the review written behind...


A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

So punctuation really does matter, even if it is only occasionally a matter of life and death.


Interesting isn't it? How many times have we written :-
1) Valentines Day instead of Valentine's Day
2) The children's books got wet instead of the children's books got wet.
3) Pizza's Hut instead of Pizza Hut without the apostrophe.

Wanna test if u are really good in punctuation? Try the Punctuation Game