Title: Therapeutic
Product review: I found this calming and therapeutic. I've suffered semi-colon and "and" anxiety for years; perhaps to some extent due to translocations within the English-speaking world. My library contains Fowler's "English Usage", Strunk and White, the American Psychological Association Style Manual, the Chicago Manual of Style, and probably more besides if I ever get around to organizing it.The insidious trouble from reading the others is that they love to impose what that guy who was married to Margaret Mead called the "double-bind." (Bates, I think.) They tell you that they're not prescriptive, and that it's alright to do your own thing, but leave you feeling guilty about it if you do. I completely became unable to write "however" after reading Fowler, and it's a terribly useful word. Truss is firm and opinionated but somehow liberating. This is the first time in my life I've written a page containing four sets of quotation marks without worrying and I FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT.
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