yahoo groups (another wonderful waste of time)

[derien]

Finished reading "Going Postal" this morning, and went to the Yahoo group "The Mended Drum" to rant a little more about the excessive number of proofreading errors in my copy, but even though the shell of the group comes up, when I hit the link to read messages I get "invalid group".  I hope it's just a temporary thing.  Holmes Slash comes up fine.  Of course now there's cox_and_co which is all the same people so we really don't need Holmes Slash anymore, but I do refuse to let go of my old ways. 

Anyway, I liked "Going Postal" a lot - and I totally loved the nod to The Lone Gunmen - The Smoking GNU.  But the proofreading errors were rather distracting - chunks of sentences missing, words swapped.  I would like to know if I got a faulty run of the printing or something.  I had a hard time stopping myself from marking it up, and then I wondered if I should, and send it back.  "Send me a new copy when you get this worked out."  It's just wrong to spend beaucoup bucks for a hardcover, because you intend to have it for a while and re-read it, and find it's screwed up like that. 

Sorry, I should not be so cranky.  I think I need to have my shower and breakfast.

Comments

[katmaxwell.livejournal.com]

Nah, you should be so cranky. If you find enough errors in a book that it actually detracts from the story, there's definitely something wrong. :(

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

I'd complain if I were you. Especially if it's grave errors like that. For a paperback I wouldn't go through the trouble, but for something you intend to keep? Definitely.

[laurenthemself]

I also heart the Lone Gunmen nod, but the errors sound like a right pain in the arse and I think you should complain.