Admittedly it can boil down to the authors themselves not proof-reading their work, even I make mistakes. But then I come back to it in ten minutes and can see them straight away.
For example, Stephenie Meyer in Twilight says that Carlisle is 'more handsomer' - Handsomer isn't even a word!!! Why did nobody question this as it simply does not make sense.
But the worst that I just came across (and the reason for this post) is in the new book in the Artemis Fowl series: The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer. Now I love these books and even though I'm too old for them now, they still excite and enthral me and I was really disappointed when I read the sentence "Their progress down the feeder rail seemed maddeningly slow down the feeder rail". What's maddening is how simple a mistake this is and infuriating in how someone could miss this. Aren't books meant to be double proof-read to escape problems like these? Even if it's a friend, or the postman - somebody!
Read Fifty Shades Of Grey. There is nothing to rival that for bad writing AND bad editing. I can't manage to read it for long as I reach a bit of terrible writing and throw the book at the wall. No amount of sexy sexy sex scenes are worth the pain of the writing..
ReplyDeleteI wanted to highlight her mistakes, post it to the publisher with a simple note stating, 'Fire your editor.' Plus the random and unnecessary thesaurus words...why? O.o It's ridiculous.
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