I'm pretty far in to it now, and I think it is Minear-level shit to
remove Tanith's Remnant NOW
Jesus Christ. Also, v. sad about
Gordon, even if he was Echo!Gordon, because he was, for all intents and purposes, Real!Gordon. He said as much. I *almost* froze it when I thought that
Darquesse was killing Tanith, even if it was Remnant!Tanith.
(And I guess
Darquesse WAS killing Tanith, but then she healed her, too.)
I thought, when the
shunting
was introduced in Kingdom of the Wicked, that it was distracting and irrelevant. NOPE. (I mean, it paid off in Last Stand of Dead Men, with the
new Roarhaven,
but I'm glad to see it's still in play.)
I'd guess I have maybe 1/4 left to go.
Valkyrie just got her tattoo,
and
Alice has been kidnapped
(WHAT THE FUCK DEREK LANDY), and Skulduggery just started his
trials in the netherworlds dealie.
I'm reading pretty fast, because I just want to KNOW.
Gordon
was one of the times I had to just walk away from the book for a little while. Not quite needing the freezer, but close.
So much about
Tanith
in this one broke my heart.
Geez, more like Skulduggery Unpleasant, am I right.
Now I'm really interested in reading them. How many are there? Are they long?
There are 9, and they get longer through the series, the way the Harry Potter books did.
I'm rereading Stephen King's Firestarter, which I read once before about 31 years ago. (Damn, I'm getting old.) I lost my copy so I got the kindle version to read on my iPad. I've noticed some typos that I'm assuming were a result of OCR errors--'car' becomes 'can', no space between an italicized word and the following word--stuff like that.
I've seen other Kindleized old books with many more problems, but for some reason on Firestarter it annoys me more--it's a Stephen King book! From a major publisher!
OK, it's not a big deal, but is this common in digitized old books? Are they skimping on proofreading? Or would it just take took much proofreading to catch all these errors?
It's common in ebooks I've seen.
Yeah, I think they're running their old copy proofs through optical text readers to digitize them and not worrying about it. Just getting digital content out there.
Yeah, I think they're running their old copy proofs through optical text readers to digitize them and not worrying about it. Just getting digital content out there.
That makes sense. A simple spell-check would flag most cases where an italicized word and the following word have no space between them.
That makes sense. A simple spell-check would flag most cases where an italicized word and the following word have no space between them.
That's what bugs me! They tend to charge just as much as they would for a new book, but it's often a slap-dash job! (Though in some ways it bothers me less than the books that have issues with homophones that either an editor didn't catch or that never got edited at all...TAUGHT and TAUT are not the same thing!)
Another annoyance from the OCR job on Firestarter--when an ellipsis starts on the end of a line and ends on the next line.
