Mistakes in TLD (Help SRD!)

dlbpharmd · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 7:10 pm Post subject: Mistakes in TLD (Help SRD!)

This thread should include any mistakes or gaffes on SRD's part that he could correct for the MMPB release. I'm collecting these in case Romeo or Seareach ever decide to pop in.

TLD, Part II, Chapter 3:

TheFallen · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:59 pm Post subject:

Okay, I can't quote exact location within TLD, but I promise you it's there - because it struck me so forcefully on read-through.

On one occasion in dialogue, Stave uses the contraction "I'm", instead of "I am". This is an editorial/proofreader miss, because SRD would never intentionally have any haruchai speak this colloquially.
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rdhopeca · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 12:13 am Post subject:

I am going to have to reread too....there's a point where someone refers to one of the Forestals incorrectly...and it snapped me right out of reading...

it's a conspiracy to make us read the whole book again!
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DrPaul · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 3:52 am Post subject:

MikeW · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:03 am Post subject:

TheFallen · Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:28 am Post subject:

You might be right, of course, but he only did it the once and early on in TLD - and bear in mind that the "normal" language of the Land's inhabitants isn't the haruchai's first language.

I dunno... it just felt very odd when I read it at the time.
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MikeW · Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 4:02 am Post subject:

You're probably right. My thoughts were based on you reacting "forcefully" to the contraction - since I reacted forcefully to a lot of what Stave did throughout the book, because he was so often acting out of character for the Haruchai.

TheFallen · Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 7:41 am Post subject:

Different sort of reaction. Yes, I agree that Stave is the finest character in the LCs - though I had a sneakingly permanent interest in Esmer as well, so yes, the former's well depicted character development evokes a forceful emotional response.

My reaction to Stave's "I'm" was more of an intellectual one, a reader's "Clang! Hang on a damn second..." Proof-reading miss, I'm next to certain.
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Horrim Carabal · Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2013 3:23 pm Post subject:

Someone should send these three (possible) mistakes to SRD or his publisher so they can be fixed for the next edition.

Seareach · Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2013 11:39 pm Post subject:

Thanks for this thread, dlb.

I'm sure SRD would be grateful for a list of any errors people come across in TLD.

Like dlb has done, please provide quote and also the chapter you found the error in (you can provide a page number if you like, just note UK or US edition, although I think they're exactly the same).

Errors include typographical and also consistency errors, like the example dlb provided.

Romeo and I will compile a list of the errors when you're done and forward them (dlb, feel free to message me when you think it's done).

Cheers. Sea
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Seareach · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 2:00 am Post subject:

Ok, so SRD would appreciate hearing about the errors you've found so please add more if you can (although one hopes there's very few).
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dlbpharmd · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 4:21 pm Post subject:

I need some help confirming the following:

1. Linden was touched by Gibbon/samadhi in TWL.

2. Linden was possessed by moksha at the end of WGW.

3. Linden first encountered turiya when she came to the Land in ROTE. Turiya was in possession of Joan. Linden again encountered him during her first transit through a ceasure, also in ROTE.

Having said that, my question is: At any point in the Chronicles, was Linden touched or possessed by Turiya? I can't think of any occurrence.
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Seareach · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 5:17 am Post subject:

I think it is an error, dlb (in the text, that is). Don't worry. I'll forward it. Smile

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DrPaul · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2013 7:27 am Post subject:

MikeW · Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:53 am Post subject:

Only a typo, but on page 263 (US edition):
"The glittering among the leaves of the ur-Mahrtiir's tree had become a silver penumbra, purer that the brightness of Loric's krill, and more melodious." It should be "than" and not "that."
I know, a tiny thing, but....

DrPaul · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 1:02 am Post subject:

Then, of course, there's the complicated issue of how to reconcile the account of Caerroil Wildwood's passing in TLD with that given in TWL. The easiest way, of course, would simply be to alter or delete the reference to this event in the Soothtell scene in TWL.

dlbpharmd · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 1:16 pm Post subject:

SGuilfoyle1966 · Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2013 4:45 pm Post subject:

lurch · Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2014 6:07 pm Post subject:

chapter 6, pg122..a very awkward sentence suggests a word or two is missing..2nd paragraph begins.." Heading more north than east, the riders rushed down into a wide lowland like an ancient caldera."

Calderas don't rush anywhere.
Perhaps a fix would be..a wide caldera like lowland..or a wide lowland that looked like an ancient caldera...

In any case, as is, its not right. Maybe a grammarian can judge better than I. If it is correct, grammatically, then the author is having fun at " grammar's " expense.
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Savor Dam · Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 1:37 am Post subject:

It is the riders who are rushing, not the landscape. Sentence is fine as it stands, IMHO.
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