November 17th, 2009
- ISBN13: 9780440203520
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
From student essays to newspaper headlines, here is a fabulous collection of linguistic goofs and mixed-up metaphors that have done everything from rewriting history to announcing the ability of a soft drink to resurrect the dead! Dell.
Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
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5 Comments
great book by the father of high stakes poker pro howard lederer
Rating: 5 / 5
As an English teacher and a linguist by hobby, I was excited to recieve this for a long plane ride. Thank goodness I couldn’t wait and started reading early. It would have been really sad to have dragged Anguished English overseas instead of something that’s actually entertaining. This book is somewhat interesting, and has at least two pages worth of excerpts humorous enough to share with a class, but I feel that for so little real humor, I wasted my money buying an entire book. Now I must confess, I’ve only read half the book (trying to find the stamina to continue), so I just might find a few more funny pages, but so far I’m disappointed, and if I weren’t a teacher, I wouldn’t finish or keep the book at all. It’s all right, but it’s simply not the side-splittingly funny book I was led to expect.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book is mostly about errors made by the author’s students when he was a teacher. I was a teacher myself, so I guess I can crank out a turkey like this and get paid for the dumb things my students had written. This book is filled with the common errors you would expect from students in any grade level (or from the average person who was educated through the American public school system). Besides students, the author uses other sources to fill the pages, but nothing of historical importance.
I ordered this book because it seemed interesting. Within minutes of getting it, I was wondering if it would be worth the effort to return a $6 book.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book was as disappointing as the author’s other books I have tried to read. I seem to be continuously fooled by what these books seem to be, or what they cold have been, and am brought up short by what they actually are. In this case, a pedantic jaunt through junk e-mail type one-liners. I hold a college degree, studied English and creative writing, and am not illiterate, as another reviewer claims those who dislike this book must be. Perhaps my expectations are too high…a book should be entertaining?
Rating: 1 / 5
We bought this book for our 12 year old son. After reading the first few pages together he went on to finish the book in a couple of days and then re-read it another time or two( laughing all the way). Ben now quotes from the book at regular appropriate (and inappropriate) times and plans to read the rest of this series just as fast as we can order the books.
Rating: 5 / 5
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