Oh! an amazon review of the Havana Room after my own heart:
The obvious error is putting future Hall of Famer Cal Ripken, Jr. at second base rather than shortstop. I can't begin to understand how this mistake was made and got past both proofreaders and editors at FSG. You don't even have to be a baseball fan to know what position Ripken excelled at.
At a BARE minimium, LOOK IT UP!
What are those hot shot Manhattan editors being paid for anyway???
The other mistake at page 283 is less obvious but still annoying.
I wonder if this is the LI Sound = the Atlantic. Hmmm, I am going to tell my grandma to ask if one of the errors changed in the paperback version was the baseball one.
haha also: "it's wish fulfillment for downsized, divorced, middle-aged men"
aka like rosemary gives a fuck.
"but the Havanna Room simply blows polar bears."
what what what? Hello new expression I haven't heard before!
"It's disheartenting to know that in the publishing world, connections--and not talent--are everything."
And even that does fuck all!
I also read Kathryn Harrison's Road to Santiago More travel descriptions, less personal reflections, pls k thx bye. This could have been totally fascinating, but it really wasn't.
Posted by rosemary at May 11, 2004 07:46 PMOh oh oh!!! I totally meant to mention that the Price of Motherhood has a glaring error: in the list of powerful black women who are childless, she mentioned Eleanor Holmes Norton, which is WRONG! She has a daughter!!!! Who is about 34, and has Down's. You'd think that this would have been corrected for the paperback edition.
Posted by: Polar Bears! on May 12, 2004 01:02 PM