The text that this essay will be analyzing is the book entitled âEats Shoots & Leavesâ by Lynn Truss. 9 years ago. First published in April of 2004, Eats, Shoots and Leaves spent 25 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list and by October of that year had gone back to press 22 times to bring the total of copies in print to a million. Summary: In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynn Truss presents an entertaining how-to guide for punctuation in the modern age. My favourite story is one about the American chap playing Duncan in Macbeth , listening with appropriate pity ⦠I canât guess how many copies are out there by now. Gotham Books, 2003, 209 pp. Answer Save. You have to see the cover: a panda walking away with a smoking gun. Eats, Shoots & Leaves is not a book about grammar. There are plenty of laughs in this book. Compare it to what? For each set of sentences, there are thumbnails of the illustrations and an explanation of the function of ⦠Barbarella. R.E. Lynne Truss. At the end of the book, there is a two-page, illustrated spread titled Why These Commas Really Do Make A Difference. Relevance. By nature I am what Ms. Truss calls a "stickler," i.e., one acutely sensitive to transgressions of the rules and conventions of ⦠Zoo Season 1 Episode 11: Eats, Shoots and Leaves Summary: When Jackson is injured after a run-in with the rebels in Zambia, the team rushes him to a hospital in ⦠I am not a grammarian. I read it but it was very hard to understand I just want to compare it. So a âperiodâ is a âfull stop,â etc. Eats, shoots and leaves.' Unlikely. When Eats, Shoots & Leaves came out, and people wanted to know the story behind it, I found that I couldnât tell that story without talking about the death of my sister in September 2000. Let me know and I ⦠The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation! EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES. Eats, Shoots & Leaves brings to mind one sort of personal failing I thought I had long since overcome and threatens to provoke its rejuvenation. ISBN 1-592-40087-6 A best-selling book on punctuation? Of course itâs British. Get it? Walton Philosophy UM-Missoula. I need a short summary of each chapter. Summary of each chapter in Eats,Shoots and Leaves? Learning with Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Favorite Answer. After reading Lynne Truss's Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Steven Poole concludes that punctuation should be a help, not a hindrance Steven Poole Sat 13 ⦠But it is in Britain! 1 Answer. Not because I particularly wanted to bare my soul in public, but because her death changed my life and created the conditions for the book to be written. The intended audience of this book is typically anyone who can read or write.