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history of the devil! Must have been a message
I got a signed copy of
a few years back for Xmas. In fact, Sheila Munro came to the house to drop it off because the missus had been unable to find a copy in any of the local book stores. Funnily enough there are about 15 pages missing in the middle. (I still have the copy mind you, as it's a bit of a collector's item for me, but I had to find another so I could finish the book.. lol)
Years ago I bought Prince of the Blood and noticed that a set of pages had been replaced with a section from earlier in the book. The publisher sent me a new copy. I always thougt the other one was unique and valuable.
I have this with my edition of The Well of Lost Plots. The cover opens to page 321 then continues to the end of the book. Then I get all the all the front of the book illustrations but the actually story starts at page 33 missing the beginning.
A while ago I began to read Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, but it stops mid-sentence at the end of the first section so it fell from my hand. A quick google revealed that leaving the reader hanging like that was not an error, but it certainly seemed like one at the time...!
When I was in the Merchant Navy as a teenager, I read THE WORLD OF SUZY WONG. Well, almost. The end of the book was missing. I think I'd fallen in love with Suzy Wong by then, and having been to Hong Kong several times, I could relate to that world, so consequently the missing finale was quite a blow to me. I did pick it up years later, but I'd grown up by then and young Suzy no longer appealed to me.
There is no excuse for typo's in books. They surely should be properly edited before print ? I have to manually correct them, regardless who the book belongs to : me, a friend or the library. Maybe that's bad ??? Lol
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Cloud Atlas (other topics)The Well of Lost Plots (other topics)
Prince of the Blood (other topics)
Lives of Mothers & Daughters: Growing Up With Alice Munro (other topics)
Chameleon (other topics)
Really into it a can't put down read
get to last 2 or 3 chapters and realize THAT LAST PRINTED SECTION IS THE FIRST CHAPTERS REPEATED.
It was a second hand book from Amazon so worth postage just over £2 BUT had to order another one to catch what happens
SO thought anyone else had similar problems in past??