The Nonborn King, Signed Limited Edition (Saga of Pliocene Exile, Volume 3) [Hardcover]

Julian May (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.; First Edition edition (January 1, 1983)
• ISBN-10: 0395322111
• ISBN-13: 978-0395322116
• ASIN: B000GLP4EK
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Customer Reviews

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1.0 out of 5 stars Worst editing I've ever seen in a mass-market publication, November 27, 2011

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J. Pilgrim - See all my reviews

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This review is from: NON BORN KING (The saga of Pliocene exile) (Kindle Edition)

I have been eagerly awaiting this series in Kindle format and now that I've got it I wish the publisher had waited a little longer and gotten the job done right. Typographical problems like "96 THE NONBORN KING" appearing in the middle of a paragraph, bad hyphenations, and mis-spellings are ruining the experience of an otherwise very enjoyable series of books. I read these in the mass-market paperback editions back in the 80's and there was nothing like this in those editions.

I hate to give this one star when the story, including all the books in the series, deserves a 4 or 5, but Amazon really needs to step up here. These typos and mis-spellings are present in the first two books of this series, The Many Colored Land and The Golden Torc, as well. Unfortunately "torc" is mis-spelled as "tore" more often than not inside the books.

1.0 out of 5 stars Shame on publisher!, January 25, 2012

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Zachary Braverman (Kyoto Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NON BORN KING (The saga of Pliocene exile) (Kindle Edition)

I hate giving this book 1 star, because it deserves 5. Heck, it deserves 10. The book is a classic.

But, the incredible number of spelling (most egregious of which is "tore" over and over again for "torc") and punctuation errors (many periods are absent) make it painful to read. Obviously the publisher just automated the process of character recognition, then gave the result to Amazon to feel WITHOUT A SINGLE MINUTE OF QUALITY CONTROL. If a human being had spend a single minute looking at this book, they would have realized how many errors it had.

Thank you, Julian May, for writing an excellent book.

Shame on you, publishers, for having no quality control whatsoever.