Book Review Pun-Unciate

Non-Fiction

Pun-Unciate: An Imaginary Look at Our Spoken Word

Heath E. Morrison

2010

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Pages: 100

 

Pun-Unciate: An Imaginary Look at Our Spoken Word is a cute, funny book of creative puns by author Heath E. Morrison. Heath’s love of language is evident in the word play collected in this slim volume.

The puns cover a wide range of topics: work, travel, divorce, food, etc. Most of the puns are laugh out loud funny that are easily deciphered; the reaction immediate. Others require a little more attention and maybe some struggle to get the joke. My favorites tended to be of the one-line zinger persuasion:

 

Dope-a-Mean

Happy pills for mentally and physically abusive people.

 

Firing Squad

This usually consists of a boss and the personnel department.

 

Pro-State

Amateurs cannot live there.

 

The puns that I did not quite get included longer explanations which effectively killed the chuckle for me, but may make someone else respond with a gut holding guffaw.

Morrison incorporates images throughout the book to add visual texture to this pun collection. Some of the puns and images are a bit racy, so this is not a book for young children; however, older teens and adults will get a kick out of the book. To add to the fun, the author includes forty-five blank pages for readers to create their own puns about eating, about relationships, about the weather and so on.

Pun-Unciate is a lively assortment of puns that entertain and challenge one’s perspective on words and their meanings.

Melissa Brown Levine

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