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Title: The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed by Karen Elizabeth Gordon ISBN: 0-395-62883-0 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Loona is with us again!
Comment: From the author of "The Deluxe Transitive Vampire" and "Torn Wings and Faux Pas" comes another humorous reference for remembering and learning proper punctuation. This edition is a revised edition of "The Well-Tempered Sentence" and adds guidelines for dealing with those pesky apostrophes, slashes, and italics.
Although I love reading about the escapades of Loona and have recommended this book to others, this book is not for everyone. If large or uncommon words frighten you, then you will be frightened by this book. Even if I tell students that once you are used to the language, this book is great, many don't want to take the time to acclimatize themselves. This is a shame because this is a great book.
If only more grammar books were a treat to read! I would highly recommend adding this book to your reference collection or taking the time to refresh your punctuation skills.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best little punctuation handbook in the universe!
Comment: I first purchased this wonderfully entertaining handbook in the mid 1980s when I had my own word processing business. This little book is worth its weight in gold and then some. I can always count on finding the correct usage in this book where other reference books have failed or have skirted over an issue entirely. An excellent reference book, The Well-Tempered Sentence is a delightful read as well. It's a must have for any reference library! Once you read this book, you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll never be without it, and you'll recommend it to strangers in the street (or at least your friends and associates).
Rating: 2
Summary: I hate this book
Comment: The author attempts to be witty, but just ends up being unclear. This sentence is supposed to be an example of comma use:
The disconsolate child picked up the rubber remnants of his glorious red balloon and felt, in the flabby skin of such pathos, a darkness in the depths of his rubber soul.
Here's another:
The oleaginous hors d'oeuvres were followed by beakers of vodka, remorse, and cold soup.
Here's a very classy example of the use of quotation marks:
The tampon ad read: "First she was a woman - then she was a teenager."
I was puzzled that the author chose to explain that in Spanish the question mark comes before the sentence, inverted, and also right end up at the end. In the section about the exclaimation point she also explained about the use of the explaination point in Spanish. I have no idea why. The rest of the book is about English.
I also hate the fact that the back page of this book is an ad for another one of her books.
I did learn a couple new things about punctuation from the book, but it was a very winding path getting there. This book has all the pathos of a bunch of oleaginous hors d'oeuvres.
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Title: The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon by Karen Elizabeth Gordon ISBN: 0395689902 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale ISBN: 0767903099 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 20 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English by Patricia T. O'Conner ISBN: 1573226254 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Torn Wings and Faux Pas: A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly Guide Through the Writer's Labyrinth by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Rikki Ducornet ISBN: 0679442421 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print--and How to Avoid Them by Bill Walsh ISBN: 0809225352 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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