| THE TRUTH (with Jokes) Al Franken New York: Dutton, 2005 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-525-94906-0 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-525-94906-2 | 336p. | HC/BWI | $25.95 | |
| Page 2: | "Consigned to their own personal hells by their failings as human beings, Franken mercifully leaves them be." |
| Dangling participle: S/B re-written. |
| Page 2: | "Here, Franken has taken a single stem cell—the English language—and grown from it a fully functional kidney with which to purify the blood of the body politic." |
| Metaphor fault: S/B fixed. |
| Page 28: | "After my last book, some of younger and/or less bright readers complained that they couldn't tell when I was joking..." |
| Missing word: S/B "some of my younger". |
| Page 96: | "...McCain-Feingold, regulating CO2 emissions..." |
| A production error: S/B "CO2". |
| Page 100: | "...paragraphs laden with dependent clauses, abstruse qualifications, , and exotic punctuation, like semicolons; em-dashes—and even the occasional interbang." |
| Spelling: S/B "interrobang". (What?!)1 |
| Page 108: | "Was Dick Cheney trying to gut our military? No. The Cold War had ended, and there was this thing called the "peace dividend." Cheney was just doing what Zell Miller would have done if he had been defense secretary, which is to choose which weapons systems would be most useful in the post-Cold War world, and get rid of the others." |
| Wording: I would write "which weapons systems would not be useful in the post-Cold War world, and get rid of them." |
| Page 119: | "The group Catholic Charities, which does heroic work, has been getting money from the federal government for over a hundred years— almost as long as there have been Catholics." |
| Wording: S/B "almost as long as there have been Catholics in America". (And it still may be historically inaccurate.) |
| Page 124: | Because of policies like those, in the eight Clinton years [...], abortions went down every single year." |
| Wording: S/B "the number of abortions went down". (What we got goin' down, baby?) |
| Page 154: | ...but after years building his life around the care of his irreversibly unconscious wife, he had begun [...] to begin dating again." |
| Wording: S/B "he had [...] begun dating". |
| Page 250: | Quote by weapons expert: "It would be like invading the U.S. in order to get rid of WMD and not securing Los Alamos." |
| Poor example: S/B "the Pantex plant". |
| Page 294: | "Although you didn't hear it on television, anyone who read the coffee grinds could see that the Democrats were getting their act together." |
| S/B "read the coffee grounds". |
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