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!"