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Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:19 pm
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It bothers me when I'm reading a PUBLISHED novel and I find grammar mistakes. Usually I take a pencil and underline the mistake. I don't know why, but it makes me feel better, I suppose. For instance, today I was reading The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. About 80 pages into the book I read this sentence:
Quote: "You must of been a manicurist at one time" Must HAVE! There is the possibility that it was a vernacular (am I using this word the right way?) thing, as it was someone speaking at the time. However, even when speaking, "must've" sounds the same as "must of". (I am still reading the book, however. It's very good so far, and it was just one mistake).
And, of course, I am was reading the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. I was reading the fifth or sixth book (I can't quite remember) and I kept finding tiny errors, such as where commas could have been, but weren't, and so on. I stopped reading. (Of course, this was also due to the fact that Richard Rahl and Kahlan had both turned into huge Mary-Sues/Gary-Stus.)
Hopefully I put this in the correct sub-forum.
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Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:58 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 1:08 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:13 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:57 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:31 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:56 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:49 am
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(LD)Croaks God! You people seem to think that grammar and punctuation is everything! I mean, come on! If your reading a good book that you like then why would it matter if there was a spelling mistake or a comma or period missing? Can't you look past that and enjoy the book without being a grammar Nazi? I've read more then a hundred books! And I've found mistakes and errors in almost all of them, it doesn't bother me, because I can see past a mistake and enjoy the book for what it is, a piece of art. If everything was perfect then this wouldn't be Earth, nothing can ever be perfect in this place, EVER!. It shouldn't ruin the book just because of a shitty editing job. Authors put their time and lives into these and you should be able to realize that nobody is perfect and mistakes shouldn't burn a hole in a book. Ugh. . .
I would think that if someone is PUBLISHING a book, and thus getting PAID to edit/write this book, then they can at least attempt to have proper punctuation and spelling. I'm not saying that I won't read a book just because of one error, but if there are a lot of errors, it detracts from the actual plot of the novel, and makes me question the author's/editior's credibility.
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 10:49 am
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:54 pm
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Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:40 pm
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You've written a real book? Really? Show me. And your taking this knowledge from real life experience? YOU'RE THIRTEEN! You think editing your own book is worth s**t? You think editing short stories for a friend is worth said s**t? Editing anything a book, poem, short story or even an essay is very hard and taxing work! Believe me, my father is a lawyer. He has to write and edit extremely important legal documents. Do you think I don't know what it takes to edit or write something? No matter who writes something it's always gonna have mistakes and you can't edit your own work! At least not for the final edit, you have editors do that. And editors don't make a whole lot of money, they have to get by just like everyone else. Tell me, what is the name of your book? How long is it? I'm writing a book too, but I'm not dumb enough to completely edit it myself because I'm not qualified, you have to go to college to even get close to makeing a book grammatically correct. The English language is an incredibly complicated language, one of the most complicated languages in the world! It's up there with Japanese. English is basically impossible to completely master.
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:36 am
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:05 pm
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Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:47 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 4:38 pm
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