Well, he asked for it.

The electric tea-kettle being put on the stove is the one that leapt (with the aid of a board-member) into my brain first. I'll find the page number when I get home from work, if someone hasn't beat me to it.

chapter 30 ".RU"
page 243

"She opens the Luggage Label and removes her iMac and phone."

Inverness Street and not aberdeen street!

The only one i noticed was
p.67: Frank Geary (should be Gehry)

Originally posted by Ron Drummond here

pg. 221
"Segment 78 is still a hot topic"
should read
"Segment 135 is still a hot topic"

pg. 227
"The body language she knows from uncounted viewings of seventy-eight segments of footage"
should read
"The body language she knows from uncounted viewings of 135 segments of footage"

There's "Cypress" instead of "Cyprus" somewhere - will post the page no later.

And someone posted a reference to "kissed his sleeping bag", which should be "kissed his sleeping back" (near the end of the book). That one still cracks me up...

Although it's not a typo, Cayce's musing about a "Vauxhall Wyburn" jars a bit given she's meant to be acutely sensitive to branding (there's no such model). And I know I originally said I didn't care about it - I'm quite happy to be inconsistent.

Page 46, a bit beneath the middle of the page, new paragraph:

'Damien's kettle starts to whistle. She takes it off the burner and fills the pot.'

Page 46, a bit beneath the middle of the page, new paragraph:

Damien's kettle starts to whistle. She takes it off the burner and fills the pot.

I may as well whip out the typos. They're not exactly compositional errors, but this isn't exactly the Advance Reader Copy either. A Putnam editor needs to be shot in the street for this.

p 233

"Cloudy now and a light drizzles sets in."

p 250

"Ngemi places his fingtips on the counter, as if laying claim to something."

p 311

Typeface error. "When the boy from the counter sorts it for her, she writes:" Should be in the regular serif font, and the email should begin in the bold sans-serif.


I hate to see a professionally finished book, so damned unfinished.

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Drive, damn you. Just drive.

You can place electric kettles upon stove-tops, just don't expect to be able to use it both ways.

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Originally posted by tigerstripes:
Page 46, a bit beneath the middle of the page, new paragraph:

Damien's kettle starts to whistle. She takes it off the burner and fills the pot.

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Cayce is "Case" on p. 117.

And how come I didn't get the "sleeping bag" typo in my copy? Dangnabit.

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Originally posted by Gromit:

Although it's not a typo, Cayce's musing about a "Vauxhall Wyburn" jars a bit given she's meant to be acutely sensitive to branding (there's no such model). And I know I originally said I didn't care about it - I'm quite happy to be inconsistent.

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I assume it should be 'Wyvern' which is a Vauxhall model from the 1950's.

Don't have the book with me, but I remember being surprised at a reference to Poole as a 'city'. (Hope I remember that correctly...)

It's actually a town.

I know it's not strictly proof-reading and sorry to be a kettle-nag, but the extra switch on the kettle plug gets to me. I've never seen a UK plug with a switch on.

OK, a very minor one and it may just be down to the way Cayce sees the world but if you look for two per cent milk in a UK shop you won't find it, and you'll get strange looks if you ask for it. The mirror-world equivalent is called "semi-skimmed" which (I think) averages at about 1.7%. But then, it may just be the terminology Cayce likes to use.

Didn't I find a shitload of typographical errors in PR-otaku? Feel free to comb it.

Now, will I ever finish the Themes sections?

line 3: "Four hours difference"
shouldn't be 5 hours between New York and London?

page 239 of uk h/c "... why she mustn't offer money, though surely Bigend would provide: Once paid, Baranov would then feel that he was giving his own money to the dealer he hates."

I can't find any previous reference to that above... but;

page 245 of uk h/c "If you had offered Hobbs the amount of Greenaway's price, in cash, he might have well refused you. He could no more pay Greenaway's price, with his own money, than I could. ..."

Or did William Gibson ask his online Discussion Board to edit the paperback edition of "Pattern Recognition" for him, and no one on the board blinked.

It's like, "Oh, yeah. We'll do that for ya Bill. No problemo."

Is this a first for an author ?

Will he credit you guys in the paperback ?

And WG, I guess you're not a net virgin anymore if you trust the board to assist you.

.........gotta go. I know I can find something to contribute.