Eats, Shoots & Leaves vs The Devil's Dictionary: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Reference, English language, Humor
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens. We all had the…
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The Devil's Dictionary
The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic's Word…
The verdict
- Readers rate The Devil's Dictionary highest: The Devil's Dictionary 4.0 · Eats, Shoots & Leaves 3.8.
- The Devil's Dictionary has the widest readership — 11185 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Eats, Shoots & Leaves | The Devil's Dictionary | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 4.0 (11185) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (194) | 4.2 (16) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (78) | 4.0 (30) |
Reception
| Eats, Shoots & Leaves | The Devil's Dictionary | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 194 | 11185 |
| Editions | 13 | 312 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 15575 |
| Reading it now | — | 1353 |
| Written reviews | — | 767 |
| Wikipedia attention | 2938 | 3926 |
| Pages | 209 | 145 |