Saturday, November 26, 2011

Reamde

Author: Neal Stephenson
Publisher: William Morrow
Year: 2011
Edition: first edition hardback, first printing
ISBN: 978-0-06-197796-1
p. 216: There's a unnecessary period and a missing be.
Of course. it was was way more complicated that this made it sound; and it wasn't long before table and tree diagrams had to drawn up to keep it all straight ... .
p. 819: There are stray characters.
"I believe we have that adequately covered."1P
p. 886: There's an unnecessary comma.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord, was a combined army/air force facility, actually rather important to the global war on terror ... .

Sunday, October 2, 2011

The Monstrumologist

AUTHOR: Rick Yancey
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster
YEAR: 2009
EDITION: first edition hardback, third printing
ISBN: 978-1-4169-8448-1
p. 62: There are unnecessary quotation marks.
"We shouldn't stay, any of us! We'll come back when it's light to return her. "'Tis madness in the devil's own dark to—"
p. 251: A space is missing.
There was a great deal of"tidying up" to do after the doctor's frantic foraging from the previous day."

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Home Cooking

AUTHOR: Laurie Colwin
PUBLISHER: Vintage Books
YEAR: 2010
EDITION: first Vintage Books edition, paperback, first printing
ISBN: 978-0-307-47441-4
p. 177: A space is missing.
But nevertheless, I was determined to stuff that creature with afancy mixture of ham, chicken, pistachio nuts, cream, cognac and so forth.

Monday, March 14, 2011

The Winter King

AUTHOR: Bernard Cornwell
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press
YEAR: 1996
EDITION: first U.S. hardback edition, first printing
ISBN:0-312-14447-4
p. 38: An s is missing.
' ... Merlin know that the Gods love this place, and here the sacred mist is thick, but our task is to spread it.'

Friday, January 14, 2011

EDITORS: Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, David Malki !
PUBLISHER: Bearstache Books
YEAR: 2010
EDITION: first offset edition, first printing paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-9821671-2-0

"Cocaine and painkillers" by David Malki !
p. 301: A word is misspelled.
"They blamde it on the exchange rate," Jack said ...

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Wild Cards I

EDITOR: George R. R. Martin
PUBLISHER: Tor
YEAR: 2010
EDITION: first edition, first printing paperback
ISBN: 978-0-7653-2615-7

"Shell Games" by George R. R. Martin
p. 282: A Tack should be Tach.
"Tell me who to ask," Tack said.
p. 282: A Tack should be Tach.
Tack went into his mind.

"Strings" by Stephen Leigh
p. 408: A period is missing.
JEWS. COMMUNISTS YOU'RE ALL THOSE THINGS TO THIS CITY, THIS COUNTRY.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me

EDITOR: Kate Bernheimer
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books
YEAR: 2010
EDITION: first edition, first printing paperback
ISBN: 978-0-14-311784-1

"Bluebeard in Ireland" by John Updike
p. 405: A word is missing.
Or less, Jeaneanne were driving ...
p. 408: A loose should be lose.
"I'll loose my balance."

"Psyche's Dark Night" by Francesca Lia Block
p. 450: There's a stray period or missing capital.
... then he was awake and she was telling him he didn't love her enough. and then, that she didn't want to see him anymore.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

The Road to Wellville

AUTHOR: T. Coragessan Boyle
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books
YEAR: 1994
EDITION: first edition, second printing paperback
ISBN: 0 14 01.6718 8
p. 255: Quotation marks are missing.
She's afflicted, poor woman," Bookbinder put in.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Pretty Monsters

AUTHOR: Kelly Link
PUBLISHER: Viking
YEAR: 2008
EDITION: first edition, first printing hardback
ISBN: 978-0-670-01090-5
p. 164: A months should be month.
He said that he'd be happy to examine her, if she liked, but she probably wouldn't go into labor for another months, at least, and we weren't going to be stuck in here that long.