I first heard about this book on NPR (as usual). Although I thought the joke was a bit weak, I liked the concept of the book. The book was not like a reference book on punctuation although it describes several usage rules for some punctuation marks; it was more like a collection of essays on several punctuation marks that Ms. Truss felt like talking about.

It was easy to go through (and the book wasn’t that long), and although I could have really learned everything about punctuation mark usages, I really didn’t care that much. I was more into the narratives. And I did learn a few new things: I never realized that there was a missing apostrophe in Two Weeks Notice.

I recommend it to anyone mildly anal about a few things. :p