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Post by Coco Chef on Jan 21, 2007 12:29:28 GMT -5
I've just noticed something odd about my TAA book.
It literally goes Chapters 1, 2 and 3, then chapter 8, and then 4, 5 and 6, and then 3 again, followed by the rest of Chapter 8.
Do you reckon this might be a very serious printing error?
It does mean I miss out on what happens in Chapter 7.
So, in order of the book it goes:
Chapter 1, 2, 3, 8, 4, 5, 6, 3, and then the rest of Chapter 8. Meaning there is no 7 at all...
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Post by Dante on Jan 21, 2007 12:56:57 GMT -5
It's obviously a printing error, and if you miss a whole chapter and have the sequence of several others confused, then I should say it's serious. I think I had a book that did something similar, once, cut away part of a chapter and put it somewhere else. If it's that bad, I'd have thought you could turn it in for a replacement. Here's an old misprints and mistakes thread we had once. I'd forgotten about it, but one thing that arguably goes there is the fact that every British copy of the first print run of The End missed out some illustrations. Chapter 7 of TAA was the Baudelaires' first S.O.R.E. session, conducted while the Quagmires watched them from the open back door of the auditorium.
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Post by Dear Dairy on Jan 21, 2007 18:22:21 GMT -5
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Post by Coco Chef on Jan 22, 2007 14:48:06 GMT -5
Thank you, for posting the links. They have been extremely helpful.
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Post by jacob4000 on Jan 22, 2007 18:16:44 GMT -5
It also means you missed chapters 9-13 as well.
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Post by Coco Chef on Jan 23, 2007 11:04:07 GMT -5
There are 13 chapters?
In my version, in the rest of Chapter 8, it winds up with Duncan and Isadora getting shoved into the waiting car...
Hmm.. I think this is a very serious printing error, but I'm reluctant to get another one.
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Post by Dante on Jan 23, 2007 11:22:38 GMT -5
You don't even have all the chapters? I assumed that you didn't mention the chapters after Chapter 8 because they were fine. If you want to read the rest of the book, perhaps you could get it out from a library, and Wikipedia's TAA page looks to have a pretty thorough plot summary. Alternatively (unless you think the book will increase in value, as Dear Dairy advised) then a book that badly misprinted I'd have thought could be returned for a replacement without charge.
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Post by Gigi on Jan 27, 2007 18:17:13 GMT -5
Chapters 9-13? That's like a third of the book. How could anyone not notice that it was substantially thinner than the other copies at the store?
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the13end
Reptile Researcher
If nothing's out there, what made that noise?
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Post by the13end on Nov 8, 2007 10:18:55 GMT -5
I know! That's really weird and strange and odd and many other things!
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Post by fordxprefect on Nov 15, 2007 11:47:25 GMT -5
Those printer people really made a bish of it.
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Jan 9, 2008 20:28:49 GMT -5
Woah! That's an oddity...
As much as I'd love to see it, this is a serious misprint and needs to go back. How long ago did you get it?
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Post by melon head. on Jan 25, 2008 17:22:05 GMT -5
My advice is to get another copy, but don't trade it for your current one- imagine how valuble it'll be one day!
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lilmof3
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Post by lilmof3 on Mar 20, 2008 14:30:37 GMT -5
Do you think there could be more to Prufrock Prep? It seems sort of like VFD training. I'm guessing you have no clue what im talking about, and are calling me crazy, but I have evidence. Read the following: Let’s look at the facts. Mr. Remora gave his students storied to take notes on. Day in, and day out. Note taking is a V.F.D skill. Mrs. K dragged to]wo children out by their ankles. This is how V.F.D members take Neophytes from their homes! And then there is Vice-Principle Nero. Throughout the whole book, 240 pages, you never hear anything about the Principle. Perhaps the Principle is in V.F.D. Vice-Principle was probably left in charge so he wouldn’t suspect anything. Then there’s the librarian who said coded-messages. This is definitely a V.F.D trait (Remember The Sebald Code etc.?)! We are sure the librarian is in V.F.D, and that’s she has been there a long time. Is Prufrock Prep more than meets the eye?
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Apr 9, 2008 15:05:09 GMT -5
lilmof3, as interesting as that is, it's quite off-topic.
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Post by anonymousman on Jun 7, 2008 14:08:10 GMT -5
that was one of my favorite books
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