Yay, books! (with a caveat)

[arib]

I was really happy to pre-order a copy of The Rookie, when I saw that it had finally come available. I'm a big fan of Sigler's work, and while I didn't expect to enjoy a fusion of American football and science fiction, The Rookie was a great free audiobook, with an excellent story. I was happy to finally get a chance to buy a print version of the book, and throw the author some well-earned green.

The book is really handsomely packaged, with extra text that wasn't in the audiobook, and a full-color insert mockup of a football magazine from the Galactic Football League.

That said, the book really could have used another proof-read or two. I caught a few grammar and spelling errors that really took me out of the story. (For example- A person who is a citizen of one country that relocates to another country is an expatriate. The author spelled it "ex-patriot," which describes Teddy Bruschi.)

It's definitely not my place to send a grammar-gram to the author or anything, but I hope these things get fixed if the book has a second printing.

(To be fair, Sigler's Infected and his NYT bestseller Contagious were done by a different publisher, and don't have the same problems. They may have had to rush The Rookie to print to meet a deadline or something. *shrug*)

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[nightshade1972.livejournal.com]

I've also noticed an awful lot of spelling/grammar errors in books I've purchased recently. My take on it is what the computer geeks warned us about when word processing software became widely available. To wit, words like to, too, and two won't be caught as a spelling error if the word is spelled correctly, although misused in context. So "ex-patriot" wasn't caught because "patriot" was spelled correctly, even though "expatriate" would have been the proper term. I don't really understand the need for human editors/proofreaders, if so many of them are determined to be that lazy. Although, to be fair, the computer won't catch it either, but that's the point. Since computers can't differentiate between to/too/two, there's got to be a human doing the final check. And if they're too lazy to bother, their bosses should cut *them* a final check.