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The first section of this book "The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing" ends with the words ".....port shifts might". No period no end of sentence, nothing. Is this a fault of this edition?
Kathy No, but it's a fault of Mitchell's construction. If he had finished that sentence, I would not have gone looking for the rest of it and then immediate…moreNo, but it's a fault of Mitchell's construction. If he had finished that sentence, I would not have gone looking for the rest of it and then immediately spotted how the book was structured and proceeded to read the second half of Eming's journal before I went on to do the same thing with Frobisher's letters and all the rest, finishing when I got to the middle of the book. Dumb of Mitchell to give the game away so early on, wasn't it?(less)
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Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
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