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Smashwords book reviews by vincent ross
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Jon-29
on Oct. 15, 2013
I would have liked to finish reading the story.. looked quite interesting, and I believe it probably tells a good tale. However, I was unable to get past the typo/spelling errors. One reviewer called it a "few typo's"... a "few" typos is what I found on the first two pages. A multitude of typos would be more accurate to describe the entire book... and they seriously detract/distract when trying to read it. "Typo's" is being generous... since it is probably not a typo when the author spells inhabitants as "inhabitance" numerous times. basest not basis wastelands not wastland calm not clam These typos I found in two minutes of scanning back over what I had read, and there were numerous others Then there are sentences which are rather disjointed sounding, and one has to pause to figure out what was meant... "“Very good” the Commandant smiled as he rubbed the stump of his leg. “But it does not victory yet”.".... wut? Apparently a good story line, but it breaks the rhythm of the reading. Once or twice is one thing, but not when it is once or twice per page. I suggest finding a good proof-reader and stop relying on spell-check. Spell-check does not know when the word is supposed to be "calm" rather than the properly spelled name of a mollusk, nor does it know when the word "they" should have been "the".. And do not even get me started on the punctuation. Proper use of a comma is important. It is the difference between "Let's Eat, Grandpa!" and "Lets eat Grandpa!". A few typos? I found one of these errors in virtually every other sentence. All of these errors and more were in the first 6 pages alone... I got no further than that.