Dragaera

TLoCB typos [no spoilers]

Sun Aug 3 20:08:04 PDT 2003

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:33:38PM -0500, Matthew Hunter
(matthew at infodancer.org) said:
> On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:28:40PM -0400, Alexx S Kay
> <alexx at TheWorld.com> wrote:
> > Well, I've finished my first read-through of the new one.  Although I usually
> > save note-taking behavior for subsequent passes, I do try and note typos the
> > first time through, as they are harder to see with each re-read.
> > 
> > Page 223, about half-way down the page, on the right margin, "my" should
> > actually be "may".
> > 
> > Page 249, about 3/4 of the way down, straddling two lines, I suspect that
> > the phrase "choose not acknowledge" should actually read "choose not to 
> > acknowledge".  The form as printed is both archaic and awkward, but Paarfi 
> > being who he is, that may have been intentional.
> 
> Page 308.  
> 
> "How, you have done a Seeing?"
> "Exactly.  Thirty hours from now, all we be clear."
> 
> Should be "will" instead of "we", most likely.

Mostly, my Inner Editor helpfully corrects such things somewhere on
the way from my retina to my frontal lobe.  Which I suppose I
shouldn't complain too much about, since it helps my enjoyment of
books.  But I did see:

Page 9, "First" should be "Fourth".  Unless the book is going backward
in time, which it appears not to be doing.

-- 
Jim Toth                                            jtoth at megrez.org
"And remember, it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that certain je
ne sais quois" -- Peter Schickele