Monday, December 15, 2008

H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction

AUTHOR: H.P. Lovecraft
PUBLISHER: Barnes and Noble
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-13: 978-1-4351-0793-9
p. 6: A he should be the.
... and the falling stones of he walls, the overgrown vegetation in the parks ...
p. 11: A where should be were.
These where now fixed upon me, piercing my soul with their hatred, and rooting me to the spot whereon I stood.
p. 12: A rend should be end.
At the farther rend of the apartment was an opening leading out into one of the many wild ravines of the dark hillside forest.
p. 23: A navel should be naval.
... our vessel was made a legitimate prize, whilst we of her crew were treated with all the fairness and consideration due us as navel prisoners.
p. 26: A period is missing.
... for one of the creatures was shewn in the act of killing a whale represented as but little larger than himself I remarked, as I say, their grotesqueness and strange sizes ...
p. 26: A measures should be measured.
... the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measures sounds.
p. 39: A period should be inside a set of quotes, which should be double instead of single.
... shrieking fiendishly that he would 'jump high in the air and burn his way through anything that stopped him'.
p. 46: A write should be writhe.
... while in and out of deep treasure-vaults write poison serpents and scaly things without a name.
p. 51: A form should be from.
Sheehan, now recovering form his astonishment, advanced and laid a heavy hand on the old waif's shoulder.
p. 53: A not should be now.
It was so old, he added, that no one could not be expected to recognise it.
p. 57: A were should be was.
To seek to describe it were useless--for it was such that no description is possible.
p. 73: An of is missing.
In ordered terraces rose the green banks, adorned here and there with bowers vines and sweet blossoms ...
p. 80: A comma is unnecessary. A could should be cloud.
Again I called down, "Warren, are you there?," and in answer heard the thing which has brought this could over my mind.
p. 81: A fold should be folk.
... but there are other things which frighten the older and more curious fold who sometimes steal up to the house to peer in through the dusty panes. These folk say ...
p. 82: An ages should be aged.
... for ages sea-captains are notably stubborn and perverse.
p. 82: A to should be two.
Still, he was very old and very feeble, and there were to visitors.
p. 82: An experiences should be experienced.
Messers. Ricci and Silva were experiences in the art of making unwilling persons voluble ...
p. 83: A wee should be were.
... for his colleagues wee not there at all ...
p. 83: A mangles should be mangled.
... horribly slashed as with many cutlasses, and horribly mangles as by the tread of many cruel boot-heels ...
p. 83: A but should be But. A he should be He.
but in this idle village gossip, the Terrible Old Man took no interest at all. he was by nature reserved ...
p. 107: A he is unnecessary.
Oral accounts of the mysterious and secluded wife he had been numerous ...
p. 114: The word uncannily is divided.
When it grew dark they traveled more softly, till soon they were flying uncan nily as if in the air.
p. 124: An ever should be never.
In such houses have dwelt generations of strange people, whose like the world has ever seen.
p. 130: A space is missing.
I followed his glance,and beheld just above us on the loose plaster of the ancient ceiling a large irregular spot ...

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

New Moon

AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: 18th printing, first edition paperback
ISBN-10: 0-316-02496-1
p. 339: A the should be they (or possibly she).
... But I met Sam Uley and his fiancee, Emily. The seemed pretty nice to me.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

The Omnivore's Dilemma

AUTHOR: Michael Pollan
PUBLISHER: The Penguin Press
YEAR: 2006
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 1-59420-082-3
p. 30: A has should be have.
The plant's unusual sexual arrangements, so amenable to human intervention, has allowed it to adapt ...
p. 54: A represents should be represent.
But though those subsidy checks go to the farmer (and represents nearly half of net farm income today), what the Treasury is really subsidizing are the buyers of all that cheap corn.
p. 86: A comma is missing.
... citric and lactic acid; glucose, fructose, and maltodextrin; ethanol (for alcoholic beverages as well as cars) sorbitol, mannitol, and xantham gum ...
p. 201: An of is missing.
Since it can be accumulated and traded, grain is a form wealth.
p. 210: A feeds should be feed.
The chicken feed not only feeds the broilers, but, transformed into chicken crap, feeds the grass that feeds the cows that, as I was about to see, feeds the pigs and the laying hens.
p. 258: A stick should be sticker.
"Eat your view!" is a bumper stick often seen in Europe these days ...
p. 269: A crill should be krill.
Conventional nutritional wisdom holds that salmon is automatically better for us than beef, but that judgment assumes the beef has been grain-fed and the salmon crill-fed ...
p. 319: A spec should be speck.
It is true that farms like this are but a spec on the monolith of modern animal agriculture ...
p. 323: A Was should be was.
"An animal's blood flowed like human blood, but its species was undying and each lion was Lion, each ox Was Ox."
p. 355: A thought should be though.
The bullet was too smashed up to easily identify its caliber, thought it occurred to me a forensics expert could probably determine whether it had really come from my rifle ...
p. 415: A subject and verb should be a possessive noun and object.
Though he declined to taste the boar, Isaac contributed to this book ... has been more precious than he can know.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Breaking Dawn

AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-10: 978-0-316-06792-8
p. 179: A to is missing.
" ... How could we know that a human was able conceive a child with one of us--"
p. 290: An a is missing.
I took deep breath, trying to calm myself.
p. 316: A blond should be blonde.
That blond vampire you hate so much--I totally get her perspective.
p. 319: A blond should be blonde.
I understand why your blond vampire is so cold --in the figurative sense.

EDITION: 12th printing, first edition hardback
p. 293: A to is missing.
I ignored her, going to sit on the floor next the sofa while she was still telling me what to do.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Among the Thugs

AUTHOR: Bill Buford
PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company
YEAR: 1992
EDITION: first printing, first American edition hardback
ISBN: 0-393-03381-3
p. 304: An as is missing.
Just I was wondering if it would be worth the risk of joining them, I looked back down at the police and saw that they were charging up the hill ...

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Kitchen Confidential

AUTHOR: Anthony Bourdain
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury
YEAR: 2000
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 1-58234-082-X
p. 73: The hyphen falls in the wrong place in a sentence break.
... these were the dar-
edevils, innovators and desperados.
p.115: A sentence starts with an unnecessary single quote.
'He was kind of charming, totally untrustworthy, conspiratorial, possessing mysterious juice with the ownership, able to operate completely outside the normal chain of command.
p. 137: A sentence is missing a semi-colon.
Bars close at 1 A.M. they start flashing the lights for last call at twelve-thirty.
p. 168: An I is missing.
In a subsequent meeting--and there would be many, as designing the new menu was a painstaking and tortuous affair--was informed that though I would be executive chef ...
p. 169: A though should be thought.
Good at the politics and shifting alliances of a big, essentially Italian business, good at the kind of stuff I though I'd always been good at.
p. 170: A failed should be fail.
He never said he'd do a thing for me and then failed to do it.
p. 261: An a is missing.
And if this isn't rich enough meal for you ...
p. 268: A pouring should be poring.
The bar was packed with monomaniacal wine aficionados, pouring over the 1,400-strong wine list like Talmudic scholars ...
p. 270: A close quote is missing.
'Beef bourguignon, he said right away.
p. 280: A bons most should be bon mots.
I was to cook a meal evocative of my earlier work of fiction for the benefit of the press, provide a few bons most at a press conference ...
p. 286: Possible stylistic decision. The word palates is repeated in an odd manner.
... as if any time now he'd find something too much for our barbarian palates and crude, unsophisticated palates.

Friday, July 4, 2008

The Road

AUTHOR: Cormac McCarthy
PUBLISHER: Vintage International
YEAR: 2006
EDITION: first printing, first edition paperback
ISBN: 978-0-307-38789-9
p. 228: A bench should be beach.
A moment of panic before he saw him walking along the bench downshore with the pistol hanging in his hand, his head down.
p. 250: A space is missing between two sentences.
You have to stay near, he said.You have to be quick.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Eclipse

AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
YEAR: 2007
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-10: 0-316-16020-2
p. 204: An East and South shouldn't be capitalized.
"The trail went East, then South, and disappeared on a side road. Had a car waiting."
p. 598: A worse should be worst.
"The worse part is knowing what would have been."
p. 599: A sentence is missing a period.
"If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic ..."

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

World War Z

AUTHOR: Max Brooks
PUBLISHER: Three Rivers Press
YEAR: 2006
EDITION: first printing, first edition paperback
ISBN: 978-0-307-34661-2
p.34 A stike should be strike.
... and if there was even the slightest chance that dead bodies were being reanimated as ravenous killing machines, you dig and dig until you stike the absolute truth.
p. 228: An it's should be its.
It is the "magic hour" for energy-independent buildings like the Malpica, that time of the day when it's photovoltaic windows capture the setting sun with their almost imperceptible magenta hue.
p. 296: A last rights should be last rites.
I had come to the field hospital to give last rights to the infected.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Stranger in a Strange Land

AUTHOR: Robert A. Heinlein
PUBLISHER: Ace
YEAR: 1987
EDITION: 10th printing, third edition paperback
ISBN: 0-441-79034-8
p. 113: Sentence missing a quotation mark at the beginning.
I am glad," Smith answered soberly.
p. 126: Sentence has unnecessary quotation mark at the beginning.
"Duke grudged a grin. "I wouldn't take a chance on my ex-mother-in-law."
p. 309: Lowercase l should be an uppercase L at start of sentence.
let's get out of this dreary fog.
p. 337: There's an unnecessary comma.
The Nest is built to hold eighty-one--'three-filled,'--but Michael groks much waiting before we need a bigger nest ...
p. 395: A new paragraph is missing an indent.
"I grok you speak rightly, Jubal," Jill said slowly ...
p. 406: A brith should be birth.
"Take the holy brith scene here--the rear wall is beginning to look curved ... "
p. 427: A character name should be capitalized.
"This is NWNW New World Networks' mobile newshound on the spot while it's hot--your newscaster, happy Holliday. ..."
p. 427: An open quote is missing.
"What do you think of the girls here on Earth?" ... Gee!"

Sunday, March 30, 2008

A Field Guide to High School

AUTHOR: Marissa Walsh
PUBLISHER: Delacorte Press
YEAR: 2007
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN: 978-0-385-90427-8
p. 92: A freshmen should be freshman.
They will try to date freshmen girls.

Monday, March 24, 2008

Twilight

AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown and Company
YEAR: 2006
EDITION: fourth printing, first edition paperback
ISBN: 0-316-01584-9
p. 142: A moats should be motes.
I ate breakfast cheerily, watching the dust moats stirring in the sunlight that streamed in the back window.
p. 466: A umidity should be humidity.
"It's always sunny, and the umidity really isn't that bad."

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Maddigan's Fantasia

AUTHOR: Margaret Mahy
PUBLISHER: Margaret K. McElderry Books
YEAR: 2007
EDITION: first printing, first edition hardback
ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-1812-7
p. 26: Extra space and wrong-facing quote mark.
"Listen you lot! " she was shouting.
p. 116: Extra space and wrong-facing quote mark.
"Look! Along here! Follow Timon. "

Saturday, January 19, 2008

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

AUTHOR: Sherman Alexie
PUBLISHER: HarperPerennial
YEAR: 1994
ISBN: 0-06-097624-1
p. 137: An Im should be I'm.
"Im your horse in the night," Samuel sang that Gal Costa song. He sang, "I'm your horse in the night."

Sunday, January 6, 2008

The Stone Light

AUTHOR: Kai Meyer (translated by Elizabeth D. Crawford)
PUBLISHER: Margaret K. McElderry Books
YEAR: 2007
EDITION: first printing, first U.S. edition hardback
ISBN: 978-0-689-87789-6
p. 183: A diffferent should be different.
"They all look completely diffferent," she said, fascinated.