- Hardcover: 394 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T) (January 1983)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0395322111
- ISBN-13: 978-0395322116
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 3.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 612 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,411,988 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Worst editing I've ever seen in a mass-market publication, Nov 27 2011
By J. Pilgrim - Published on Amazon.com
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I have been eagerly awaiting this series in Kindle format and now that I've got it I wish the publisher had waited a little longer and gotten the job done right. Typographical problems like "96 THE NONBORN KING" appearing in the middle of a paragraph, bad hyphenations, and mis-spellings are ruining the experience of an otherwise very enjoyable series of books. I read these in the mass-market paperback editions back in the 80's and there was nothing like this in those editions.I hate to give this one star when the story, including all the books in the series, deserves a 4 or 5, but Amazon really needs to step up here. These typos and mis-spellings are present in the first two books of this series, The Many Colored Land and The Golden Torc, as well. Unfortunately "torc" is mis-spelled as "tore" more often than not inside the books.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Shame on publisher!, Jan 25 2012
By Zachary Braverman - Published on Amazon.com
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I hate giving this book 1 star, because it deserves 5. Heck, it deserves 10. The book is a classic.But, the incredible number of spelling (most egregious of which is "tore" over and over again for "torc") and punctuation errors (many periods are absent) make it painful to read. Obviously the publisher just automated the process of character recognition, then gave the result to Amazon to feel WITHOUT A SINGLE MINUTE OF QUALITY CONTROL. If a human being had spend a single minute looking at this book, they would have realized how many errors it had.
Thank you, Julian May, for writing an excellent book.
Shame on you, publishers, for having no quality control whatsoever.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
excellent story, Poor editing, May 6 2012
By Momo - Published on Amazon.com
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This is an excellent story, one of the true classic series. I found that this book became very difficult to read due to the constant misspelled words. I had to puzzle out some items just from context in the paragraph. this books needs to be retracted and some proof reading done.
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