Light read, British Humor, enjoyed.

A lot of fun and a very entertaining book. I've also recently discovered some recordings of her radio shows, which are very enjoyable as well.

With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed: Despite the laboriously long title, this is actually quite a tight story. A tiny but long-lived gardening magazine is finally being closed for good, and its last few employees are coping in their own unique ways. It's one of those screwball comedies, where all the characters and plots all wind up in one place by the end, tied up through myriad coincidences. A fun book.

Tennyson's Gift: I got through 50 pages of this one before giving up. I could tell it was trying to be funny but either it wasn't or I just didn't get the joke.

Going Loco: A comic study of identity theft, sort of. But not in the modern sense: in the way of a person doing things for you until slowly they become you. It usually shows up in horror, so as a comedy it's very strange and a little dark. I'm not sure how I felt about it. I mean, it had its moments, but in general it just felt a little...off. But then, it could be that I'm just too American to appreciate it.

Making the Cat Laugh: A selection of humorous, largely autobiographical essays. The best part of the book by far.

Cute collection of novels. Truss' humor is adorably British.

WITH ONE LOUSY PACKET OF SEED and GOING LOCO are hilarious and perfectly crafted; TENNYSON'S GIFT and the columns a bit less to my taste. So good.

Very enjoyable collection of 3 short novels and a collection of articles she wrote about the
Single life. Classic British farces. I really had some great laughs. Frustrations of blocked authors. Interactions between Lewis Carroll and Alfred Tennyson, a woman whose life is completely taken over by her cleaning lady.

Perfection.

The first novel in this collection is fun! I'm not very far along, but enjoying it!

She's laugh-out-loud funny, that's for sure. First read her "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" - serious but a good turn of phrase. These books, & then the columns, are lighter, but entertaining. Makes you want to be a single woman living in London ...

I love East, Shoots & Leaves. So I was really excited to find this Lynne Truss Treasury. But unfortunately, I don't think Truss's fiction is as compelling as her grammar manifesto. All three of her novels were too bizarre for me, and they weren't redeemed by very likable characters. Her columns were a bit better, and I related to her cat-lady stories, but since I didn't follow her as a columnist, the collection seemed out of context and disjointed to me.

Lynne Truss' humor is intelligent, witty, and clever. The short stories are well-written in this collection, but I really enjoyed the column portion of the book myself, probably because I can relate to a lot of the situations she finds herself in being a single professional who lives alone. I don't have cats myself (and in fact, have a strong distaste toward them), but I found the columns dealing with her and her cats particularly hilarious.

I only read the first comic novel in this collection, titled With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed. I liked it quite a bit--she's sort of a latter-day Wodehouse. Had to move on because my next book came in at the library, but I'd love to read more of her stuff some day soon. Looks as if her columns are quite funny.