Fluent and Query Expression — Is there any benefit(s) of one over other?

Question

LINQ is one of the greatest improvements to .NET since generics and it saves me tons of time, and lines of code. However, the fluent syntax seems to come much more natural

Answer 1

I don't get the query syntax at all. There's just no reason for it in my mind. let can be acheived with .Select and anonymous types. I just think things look much more organized with the "punctuation" in there.