Title: Truss, you ain't got it. :(
Product review: A book like this has needed to be written for a while. It's not a definitive guide to punctuation by any means, but it it aims to be a readble, fairly thorough romp through the little squiggles that make language intelligible.It's just such a shame that it had to be written by Lynn Truss, whose voice throughout is spiked with a false sense of bon homie and a very real smarminess. I heard her on the radio recently and she ain't funny in person at all, so why try in print?And another thing, she's pictured posing on the back flap about to add an apostrophe to an advertisement for the film 'Two Weeks Notice'. Why didn't she? I get the sense that all her talk of 'zero tolerance' and ambitions of literary militias are strictly posing as well.
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