AtD (spoilers) Tautologies

Penny Padgett Harper padgett.harper at verizon.net
Tue Nov 28 18:17:34 CST 2006


Ya Sam writes:

>After page 200 I have a very unpleasant feeling that the editing was done in 
>a hurry, (maybe in order to present the book for the National Book Award in 
>time, don't know) therefore some stylistic lapses are a letdown, (e.g. p. 
>213 'Reef found himself' two times in the same paragraph, not to mention all 
>the 'is alls') especially alongside some awesome passages of comsic beauty.

I've also found a couple-three (sorry) typos, which I don't remember seeing in
either GR or M&D.  Vineland has one error that might be a typo (using SFX
as the airport code for San Francisco when it's really SFO).

Penny





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