Kent,
When I was reading Caught Stealing I picked up the ERA error
you mentioned and I think one or two other similar mistakes
(glossed over the caught stealing one), and no, it didn't
bother me. Caught Stealing at it's heart is a really fun
book, very fast-paced, kind of Quentin Tarantinoish in it's
style and violence, and a terrific read, and I'd suggest
giving it more of a shot. What will stop me dead in reading a
book is bad writing, an obvious plot, smugness on the
writer's part, poorly drawn characters, etc.
--Dave Z.
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "T. Kent Morgan"
<tkmorgan@...> wrote:
>
> Joy wrote in reply to my post about the mistakes on
page 7 of
Huston's
> Caught Stealing turning me off.
>
> "No, Kent, you aren't the only one. It happens to me
all the time.
When I
> trip over dumb mistakes in newspapers, I often send
off a letter
to the
> editor, but in books, it's too much trouble to
figure out where to
complain.
> My excuse is that I copyedit for a
living."
>
> Joy, I also edited as a major part of my job in
educational
communications
> and know how mistakes can still be made. Taking the
oopposite
position, I
> co-wrote a twice weekly sports column in a daily
paper for four
years and
> always dreaded my first look at the "finished"
product, i.e., what
those
> editors did to it and got wrong. In the case of
Caught Stealing,
my biggest
> problem was the author writing the baseball passage
about caught
stealing,
> the book's title, and not knowing what the term
meant. At least I
don't
> think he would have written it the way he did if he
did know.
>
> Kent Morgan
>
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