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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $24.95
Manufacturer: Pantheon
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Description
Playful and practical, this is the style book you can't wait to use, a guide that addresses classic questions of English usage with wit and the blackest of humor. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Karen Elizabeth Gordon is no ordinary grammarian, and her works (including The New Well-Tempered Sentence, Torn Wings and Faux Pas, and The Disheveled Dictionary)--are no ordinary books of grammar. A special edition of the 1984 classic, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is populated by a wickedly decadent cast of gargoyles, mastodons, murderous debutantes, and, yes, vampires (both transitive and otherwise), who cavort and consort in order to illustrate basic principles of grammar. The sentences are intoxicating--"How he loved to dangle his participles, brush his forelock off his forehead with his foreleg, and gaze into the aqueous depths"--but the rules and their explanations are as sound as any you might find in Strunk and White. Outlining the building blocks of the English language, from parts of speech to phrases and clauses, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire goes on to exorcise such grammatical demons as passive voice, fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences. At last, a handbook of grammar you will actually want to read. In the words of Gordon's preface, "Howling, exploding, crackling, flickering with new life-forms, and drunk on fresh blood (some of mine is certainly missing), this deluxe edition reminds us on every page that words, too, have hoofs and wings to transport us far and deep."
Reviews
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-08-11
Summary: "Great book"
An excellent means to teach and understand grammar for those who are morbid or a little dark humored.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-07-13
Summary: "Quirky"
This is probably one of the most quirky grammar guides that I've ever read, but I really liked it. I think that book is really interesting with all of the pretty pictures and funny sentence examples.
After reading this book many times, it has greatly improved my grammar because it was the only grammar book that I had ever read cover to cover. Some pars were a little lacking, but the whimsical feeling of the book won me over.
Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2009-12-03
Summary: "The Transitive Vampire Has No Clothes"
If nothing else The Transitive Vampire proves that if you want to sell books, a great title with a misleading premise beats a work of integrity with a mediocre title any day of the week.
Credit though must be given to author Gordon for more or less inventing the gimmick: that is, implying the study of English grammar might actually be fun, not to mention kind of hip and sexy. The problem? The contrivance is a fraud. It's like claiming to have invented a perpetual motion machine. For let's be real folks--unless you are a major English geek (supposedly the book is mostly not intended for these people)--no matter how you slice it, studying grammar is a dead bore. Emphasis on dead. Like a vampire.
Case in point. I did a "Surprise Me!" search. The first result (bottom of page 33): "A word that completes the meaning of a verb is the complement of the verb. Complements are either direct objects, indirect objects, or subjective or objective complements." zzzzzzzzz. It gets worse. You see, no matter how many vampires you surround this stuff with, grammar just ain't fun or hip or cool or sexy or interesting or anything of the sort. It just isn't.
Now to those lauded graphics. It may be all you need to know that the graphics are the main thing most people take away from this handbook. Geeks included. The recipe: insert old gothic line drawings from the public domain (this means it cost the author nothing), sprinkle them in a fun and sexy way throughout, and just don't mind that mostly they have nothing to do with the accompanying text. Or worse when the picture and the text seemed to be related but they're really not. Or are they? It's all so much fun! Almost as much fun as wrapping your mind around subjective and objective complements. And just in case your brain isn't twisting enough, Ms. Gordon will provide you with a semi-incoherent sentence example to sink your fangs into. (The one at the bottom of p.33 does not disappoint.)
"A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed." Whatever that means. A hipper-than-thou subtitle that manages even to outhip the superhip main title. Again, great concept. However, within the context of that concept -- that Karen Elizabeth Gordon has created a compelling, sexy, alternative adventure into the world of English grammar -- the result is rather a blood-sucking mess.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2009-05-08
Summary: "entertaining, but not necessarily useful"
In case you couldn't figure it out from the title, this is a short prescriptive grammar of English. Its gimmick is that the examples have a silly gothic horror theme ("How wicked to behold you," "The girl squatting under the bridge is a debutante"), and the text is interspersed with old woodcuts, which have absolutely no correlation with the text, or, often, with their own captions.
The 1993 edition adds an index, which makes it much more useful than the original 1984 version.
The level of the book is extremely basic. There is no discussion of the subjunctive, for example. There is also no room made for nuance: nothing about British versus American usage, house styles, levels of formality, or issues on which good writers can disagree (split infinitives, prepositions with nothing after them).
The best thing about the book is that it's entertaining. The examples are strange and charming, and reading them is like eating bonbons. I plowed through the book in an hour, enjoying every minute of it. Unfortunately I didn't learn anything from the book that I didn't already know, and I don't think it's going to be particularly useful to me as a reference.
Readers who want a grammar book for self-instruction will probably not want to use this book, since it lacks exercises. Readers whose native language is not English will probably have trouble following it, since the sophisticated style and vocabulary are mismatched to the basic level at which it discusses grammar. It might be a good choice for a bright teenager whose high school doesn't teach English grammar effectively.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-04-16
Summary: "Go sell your Strunk & White"
I used to use this book in the mid 90s, working as a writing tutor when I was an undergrad. The thing I loved about Vampire, as opposed to Strunk & White's classic Elements of Style, is that Gordon actually appreciates that language can be clear AND beautiful. Strunk's mandates always seemed to me to be the rules of someone who didn't really like the language, but really did love rules. As a result, Strunk & White ignored the power that 'unnecessary' words can have.