Auuuuuuggggghhhhh! (Not a review)

[james_davis_nicoll]

Of all the 20 page bits to be missing, why did it have to be 20 of the last 21 pages in the book, the ones that resolve the current crisis?!!!!!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Could be worse - if it was 20 pages of infodump, that would be anti-Murphy's Law, which always scares me, as I know that Murphy will _really_ get me later.
:-)

Errol

[mawombat.livejournal.com]

Sounds a little bit like the central character's problem in "if on a winter's night a traveler" by italo calvino.

[zeborah]

I was halfway through Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and just starting to really enjoy it (as opposed to enjoying it apart from when I couldn't stand any of the characters which was often) I discovered that the blasted printers/binders/whatever had missed out one signature and duplicated another. I was cut off mid-word. Fortunately the nice bookshop I bought it from happily exchanged it for another copy, which had all the signatures intact, even though I no longer had the receipt.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Um ... if this ever happens to you on one of my books and you require immediate gratification, email me and I'll get it sorted out by return of email.

I take it you moaned at your regular source?

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Ack!

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

At least it mattered. I've read books where removing any particular 20 page section would have had minimal impact on the reading experience, thanks to multiple redundancy in event revelation.

On the other end of things, I got a mystery once where the page where the detective explains all was missing. I had to work out who did it by who didn't get dialogue after that page.