Friday, 16 October 2009

Typos in international books (2)

Toby Young, media slut, must be a very annoying person to know in real life, but I enjoyed his first book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. (Roger Ebert's review of the film version also acts as a nice intro to what Toby does.)

I picked up the paperback of the sequel, The Sound of No Hands Clapping, at the Penguin sale. It's published by Abacus and this paragraph occurs close to the very end:



Noticing that he'd left his email address at the end of the book, I wrote to him pointing out the typo. He replied:

Thanks. Good spot. Not sure there will be any more editions, but if there are I'll be sure to correct it.

What is the typo that I spotted?
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8 comments:

  1. nurulazreenazlan16 October 2009 at 19:10

    'for someone who's last gig....'

    who's - whose ?


    is i the correct one? =p

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  2. Amir Muhammad16 October 2009 at 19:11

    Bagus!

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  3. Anonymous16 October 2009 at 21:40

    And it should be "nerve-wracking" instead of "nerve-racking", I think, but I could be wrong?

    Munira

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  4. Amir Muhammad17 October 2009 at 00:42

    either one is fine, apparently!

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  5. Wan Nordin Wan Hussin17 October 2009 at 19:50

    And all this while I've been using nerve wrecking. Silly me.

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  6. louisebah18 October 2009 at 22:56

    i guessed who's! :) yay me:)

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  7. Anonymous19 October 2009 at 11:13

    grammar nazi

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  8. Anonymous6 November 2009 at 12:39

    Paulo Coelho's highly successful book, The Alchemist, has a typo on the BACK COVER of one of its edition.

    Lim-May Zhee also got!

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