December Books 12) Gateway 13) Eats Shoots and Leaves
12) Gateway by Frederik Pohl. As good as I remembered it as being. Wrote full review for my website.
13) Eats Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss. An occasionally entertaining rant against contemporary (lack of) punctuation. I think it's all a bit exaggerated myself; language is dynamic, not static, and I doubt that the level of literacy in general has deteriorated much in recent decades; what has happened is that more people are writing, so you are more likely to encounter people with poor writing style than would have been the case fifteen years ago.
13) Eats Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss. An occasionally entertaining rant against contemporary (lack of) punctuation. I think it's all a bit exaggerated myself; language is dynamic, not static, and I doubt that the level of literacy in general has deteriorated much in recent decades; what has happened is that more people are writing, so you are more likely to encounter people with poor writing style than would have been the case fifteen years ago.