Who edits these things??

[Stormy]

Okay so I am happily plodding along reading The World According to Clarkson Vol.2 when I got thrown a curveball. The sentence I read at the end of one page reads "They look at the gun, the car and the jet engine as" only to be continued on the next page as "her lap, does Hamlet reply: 'Do you think I meant country matters?'" I remembered reading that bit some 30 odd pages before and after flicking a fair way forward, I find pages 181-226 are reprinted in full before I can get to what comes next. :blink:

I often find errors in books like typos, grammatical errors, punctuation marks missing or patchy typeface but this is the first time I've come across something like this. I wonder if every single copy is like this....or just the more recent batch?? :dk:

[kezabelle]

I had a best seller years ago that was missing 50 odd pages - apparently a whole batch went out that way!

[Stormy]

Kez, I turned the page yet again and now I've gone from 228 straight to 277. :blink:

So now I'll never know why Jeremy was getting boycotted for getting an honorary degree from Oxford :P

[Patricia]

Send them an email Kay and let them know that there continuity leaves alot to be desired ..LMAO

Isn't it funny how often you do find errors in books though, makes you wonder what the editing people are really doing :hehe:

[Barbara]

You know, I have never come across that :O I'd send them an email & see what happens

[mel35]

Send them an email Kay and let them know that there continuity leaves alot to be desired ..LMAO

Isn't it funny how often you do find errors in books though, makes you wonder what the editing people are really doing :hehe:

I'm constantly finding errors in books and wonder the same thing. Newspapers are getting really bad too.

[Stormy]

I briefly considered emailing Jeremy Clarkson himself to see whether he would send me the forty pages I'm missing....surely he'd have them kicking around his house somewhere. :hehe:

Penguin was the publisher in Australia....I might email them and see if I can get a job - obviously their current copy editor is asleep at the wheel! LMAO

[Naomi]

I have a copy of The Last Battle (Narnia series) that has that problem, it's a fairly old edition though. More recently I bought Harry Potter 4 in hard back when it was a new release and the entire book was upside down inside the cover :blink: I tried to ignore it and just read it but you'd be surprised how annoying it is so I returned it to the store and exchanged it for another one. The funniest thing was - they said, "Oh yes we've had a whole lot of them like that" AND THEY PUT IT BACK ON THE SHELF!! LMAO Although I guess with something like HP which must be an enormous run, they aren't going to check every copy.

[kezabelle]

They'll be collector's editions before you know it Naomi - and I had ehard that with a batch of HP books. :)

[miss kiki]

i bought a stephen king book that was like that..it was missing the last 5 pages or so and even 5 pages can do such a difference! i should have brought it back, but i didn't. DF's dad has the same book, so i think i borrowed it from him to read the last couple pages! :hehe: