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[trinityofone]

Dear editors of The Road--

Please turn your attention to page 35 of the first American edition, published by Alfred A. Knopf. The first sentence of the second paragraph reads as follows:

"They ate the little mushrooms together with the beans and drank tea and had tinned pears for their desert."

Really? I mean, I know an apocalypse has occurred, but I wasn't aware that that enables one to remake entire geographical features out of canned food products.

DESERT /= DESSERT! Were you guys all asleep that day? Did something about page 35 make you drowsy? What the hell?

And yeah, I know it's a little thing; I just really don't expect to find major typos in major works of literary fiction that I assume the author, proofreaders, editors, etc. have read more than once. It totally yanked me out of the story, guys!

I guess what I'm saying is, if you are having these problems, maybe you should consider hiring some different people. *coughmecough*

Because I, uh--I never make typos. Or at least I feel really ashamed when I do!

Please try to do better next time. I'm sure Mr. McCarthy would appreciate it, too.

Mildly appalled,

Trin

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Seriously, yo. Does anyone else feel, like, really shocked when they come across something that major in a published "literary" work? I mean, I get annoyed when I catch mistakes in some of the trashy sci-fi or fantasy I read, but I should not have to stop 35 pages into The Road to freak out about misspellings. Cannibals, maybe, but I haven't even gotten to them yet.

Alternately, I may just need a lot of therapy and, like, a course of dictionary deprivation.

ETA: Page 89:

"It's okay, he said. We just have to wait. But I think its okay."

You have it right, and then two sentences away, it's WRONG? JESUS CHRIST, PEOPLE! You're totally harshing my post-apocalyptic buzz.

Comments

[inthekeyofd.livejournal.com]

What I freakin' can't stand is when they spell a name wrong..meaning, it's on a DVD or in a book of a movie..it would be good to actually PROOFREAD to make sure that you spell the name of the STAR right. It drives me up one wall and down the other.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

You mean on the DVD of the actual movie that the actor is in? OY. I got angry enough when I read some book that kept talking about "Jennifer Anniston." If I ever saw something like "Friends starring Jennifer Anniston," I would SCREAM.

And don't even get me started on press releases! Those things are RIDDLED with errors. One of my rookie journalism mistakes, back when I was a sophomore in college I think, was to trust a press release for the spelling of Macaulay Culkin's name. It was a release for his own movie and they got it wrong. NEVER trust a press release!

[inthekeyofd.livejournal.com]

Let's see a few examples, David and Joe's names on the Season 1 dvd, Kevin McKidd's name on my Dog Soldiers DVD and in my 300 Art of the Film book..the spelled Gerard---Gerald..I mean, when highlighting a star it would be nice to spell said star's name right??

And Macaulay, that's what he gets for having a name that could be spelled 15 different ways. *smile* that's like that Matthew McCounghneyheyheyheyhey..*smile*