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Wrong series number.Reads: Destiny: Child of the Sky (La Symphonie des Siècles #6)
I tried to fix this one:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
but I am unable to get it to clear.
It read, in another language, that it is #6 when on the Book Profile page. It is Book #3 in the Symphony of Ages series. Not sure what the problem is. It reads correctly on this page:
http://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=...
Thank you!
P.S. I wouldn't mind knowing what I'm doing wrong. Thanks!
weird because when you click on the la symphonie des siecles series link, there are only 3 books listed as well
looks like the series got numbered wrong...from what french I can read (which is better than my speaking)...the first three books are the same in the french and the english
Fixed. I went to the link you listed above, clicked on "edit details" and then clicked on the La Symphonie des Siècles series link listed. That showed the three books listed 1, 6 and 4 (!?). I clicked "edit" on that series page and corrected them so they listed 1, 2 and 3 (hopefully the right order!). Please take a look and make sure I've corrected them to be as they should be. :)
Okay, I'm pretty happy. On book #3 it still has the series name in French on the Book Profile page. **shrugs** But I need to learn a little French. ☺ Plus, the number is correct now. Also, I added the remaining books, and put them in the correct order to the one hyperlink page that only had three books listed.Thanks, ladies! You are the best!
Actually, it looks like the Symphony of Ages series was published in French with a different numbering because the books were split into two parts, and then the parts were incorrectly combined so that the French numbers were showing up on the whole books instead of the partial books. I'll sort this out....
this is the wiki link I used to verify - they say that it is a trilogy - http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Symph... - they do say the french edition was broken into 2 volumes...doesn't say if each of those volumes has a different name, or what
Here we go--Symphony of Ages:
http://www.goodreads.com/series/46807...
La symphonie des siècles
http://www.goodreads.com/series/78254...
Looks wonderful, Cait! Thanks! And thank you too, Dee!
You guys have Roxanne St. Claire's "Bullet Catcher" series (http://www.goodreads.com/series/41609...) completely out of order. If you try to go by her website, only the complete novels come up in order, but it does not tell where the novellas are placed in the series. You have two of them placed incorrectly in the series and almost all of the books after #2 are numbered wrong. The correct order becomes obvious if you read the series. Here is the correct order for those books:1. "Kill Me Twice"
2. "Thrill Me to Death"
3. the novella in "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
4. "Take Me Tonight"
5. the novella in "What You Can't See"
6. "First You Run"
7. "Then You Hide"
8. "Now You Die"
9. "Hunt Her Down"
10. "Make Her Pay"
11. the novella in "Guns and Roses"
Nikita wrote: "You guys have Roxanne St. Claire's "Bullet Catcher" series (http://www.goodreads.com/series/41609...) completely out of order..."Huh. The series page says "according to the author's website", but it gives a page which no longer exists and it contradicts the information which is currently on her website. I'll change the series page to match the website.
Cait wrote: "I'll change the series page to match the website."As I said, there are three novellas that fit into the order and which are why your Bullet Catcher numbers are wrong. If you look at the page on the website (http://www.roxannestclaire.com/romant...) it numbers only the novels and does not put the novellas into the order. If your numbers don't include the novellas in their proper place the readers end up with the frustrating realization (which I just experienced twice in my reading through the books over the last week) that by following the numbers you apply to the books, they have missed things because they missed the novellas in their attempts to read the series in order.
As I said, in reading the series, which I have just done, there are references to the other books which clearly help you see the order in which they go in the series. I understand that you are not going to read the series to get this information which is why I provided the correct order above. If you doubt that order, you can feel free to contact Roxanne herself, at her twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/roxannestclaire) or by e-mail (roxannestc@cfl.rr.com) to verify it. She's a really nice person who responds to all of her e-mail. If you'd like a shortcut to verifying it because you don't want to contact the author for some reason, you can simply look at the original publication dates for each book. They correspond perfectly to the same order I got from reading the details in the books. In order to solve a problem caused by the incorrect placement of the novellas into the series, it does no good to then look at a source that fails to tell where they go at all.
1. "Kill Me Twice" (Oct 2005)
2. "Thrill Me to Death" (Aug 2006)
3. the novella in "I'll Be Home for Christmas" (Oct 2006)
4. "Take Me Tonight" (Apr 2007)
5. the novella in "What You Can't See" (Jan 2008)
6. "First You Run" (March 2008)
7. "Then You Hide" (June 2008)
8. "Now You Die" (Sept 2008)
9. "Hunt Her Down" (Sept 2009)
10. "Make Her Pay" (October 2009)
11. the novella in "Guns and Roses" (Feb 2012)
Nikita, I already renumbered the series in the order you've given now:http://www.goodreads.com/series/41609...
We use partial numbers to indicate short stories or novellas in a series, so there are 8 novels numbered 1-8 with the novellas in sequence at 2.5, 3.5, and 8.5 as you indicated.
Cait wrote: "We use partial numbers to indicate short stories or novellas in a series..."Aha! Thank you for the info and for your speedy renumbering! And I hope that people who use the series numbers you guys provide for books appreciate it too. I know I gave thanks several times to whoever did Patterson's "Alex Cross" series on this website. Without that person's help the 18-book series would have been much more confusing.
Have a very nice night.
Click on the name of the series. On the series page, under the "20 works, 17 primary works" and any description, there is an edit link. This will allow you to edit the series numbering and rearrange the order of books.
I went ahead and did this one.