Customer Reviews

The Curse of Capistrano (Dodo Press)

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This printing of "The Curse of Capistrano" is the most expensive, and is of terrible quality. I don't mean the story itself--the story is a classic with cultural significance. You may like it or not.

But the quality of the printed material in this edition is AWFUL! There is not a paragraph without a typo or scanning error. Spelling errors run throughout. The text was obviously scanned by a text interpretter into Microsoft Word. Somebody ran a spellcheck, and that's all the proofreading it got. Common scanning errors are throughout, like "die" for "the", or a sudden period where there shouldn't be one. The tilde is almost always missing from the Spanish word "Senor" (I can't put it here, either!), but it's there enough times to let you know that they knew it should be there.

Also, the style is straight out of Microsoft Word. Paragraphs are not indented, but are double-spaced apart (like this review). It makes reading a bit uncomfortable.

Any of these errors are, in my opinion, forgivable when not too frequent. But they are WAY too frequent.

The most unforgivable error, however, is that the beginning of Chapter 2 OMITS A PAGE AND A HALF OF TEXT! Chapter two starts in the middle of a sentence! The entire introduction of Don Diego (a central character), and the nature of his friendship with Sergeant Gonzales (another central character), is missing! I looked up the story (which is available online for free at [...]), and was able to read the missing page and a half.

This error, combined with the others, makes this a chore to read. And I have no confidence that the rest of the story is intact. I would recommend reading this story online, or downloading it as a PDF and saving the $17 you would spend on this attrocity.

Great story, but too many typos. There were so many typos I couldn't possibly count them. It made for difficult reading. I suggest that you find a copy of this book that is published by a company with a competent editing department.

this is a great book with lots of action and an intriguing storyline. Captain is marvellously stupid, and zorro is a true hero! yaay!