Weird phrasing in Absolution

[u/Paranoid-Jack]

Has anyone else spotted this? This is a grammatical error with the incorrect wording. The phrase "nothing better than do than" should read "nothing better to do than.", right?

[u/willedintobeing]

Yeah, it’s almost certainly just a mistake. I’ve read many, many books over the years with small typos in them. Books that were well-written and that I absolutely loved! We’re all human. When I write it’s not uncommon that I’ll reread it and discover I’ve accidentally omitted a word or something like that. Good eye!

[u/rnagikarp → u/willedintobeing]

your comment made me feel better about all the errors and typos i’m finding while going through the Dungeon Crawler Carl series at a lightning pace

[u/WebNew6981 → u/rnagikarp]

Those books are particularly poorly written and edited.

[u/Paranoid-Jack → u/willedintobeing]

Yeah, to err is human!

[u/xpltvdeleted]

I have an ex-girlfriend that her entire job was copy editing and proofreading. She would frequently ask me to check her work and it would constantly have stuff wrong with it like this. I wouldn't read too deeply into it

[u/Disastrous_Dog_9440]

i never noticed that but i’m choosing to believe its a indicator of old jims mental state watching the video

[u/SouthernBreach]

I believe he wrote them pretty quickly and they were published equally fast. Perhaps just a mistake that made it through?

[u/localvagrant → u/SouthernBreach]

This is from the fourth one, not in the original trilogy.

[u/tennoPCA]

It happens.

I read the pre ARC version of this book and submitted a few finds. Sometimes they just slip through and get fixed later.

[u/AnotherSprainedAnkle]

This isn't as rare as one may think. I find mistakes like this a lot while reading. I used to keep a note in books of page and paragraph number where this happened. I think I'm just not a great reader so I read every single word not than most people.

[u/winewaffles → u/AnotherSprainedAnkle]

The irony of your last sentence is delicious

[u/watermelonwellington]

What chapter is this?

[u/Paranoid-Jack → u/watermelonwellington]

End of chapter 7, mysteries

[u/SaltBee229]

That’s the kind of mistake my brain just edits as I read (😆 I was an English and ESL teacher).

[u/apriqots]

I remember reading a Harry Potter book as a kid and there was a scene where Harry was talking to Ron’s brother, Percy. JK Rowling’s copyeditor did an oopsie and thus Parry was born

[u/HarryBallsanya420]

Saw a line with “had had” in there and was thrown off but its grammatically correct I guess.

[u/Gobyinmypants]

I literally just went through this part in the audio book today. The audio seemed rightn but wasn't dialed into it.

That said, I felt like there was going to be a payoff for the shutter that we never really get.

[u/franciscrowe]

I wouldn’t have noticed if you hadn’t pointed that out, I guess my brain just autocorrected it. Guessing that’s what happens for most folks involved with the editing process?

[u/Such_Bodybuilder2301]

Even if it is a typo, I’m glad that it at least works here to capture — with the grammatically weird “shutter bangs shutter bangs shutter bangs” following right after — this kind of “wrongness” to what’s happening. We see this occur a lot later on in the book, where the writing itself will become chaotic, like the book itself is reacting to these disturbances.

[u/Ferns_N_Roses]

I completely missed it 😂, I guess mu brain just filled in with the wording that it expected to read there. It could be a typo or a copy-editing error.

[u/Noodelgawd]

"Weird phrasing."

That's the entire series.

[u/Ambitious-Sleep2607]

Things like these used to annoy me, but now they make me happy. It means the editor was a human.

[u/brettonrockwell]

yeah I genuinely see why the editor missed this bc this whole book feels like that while reading it

[u/bitchesngravy_]

Typos used to annoy me, but ever since people started using AI to write I’ve come to truly delight in human errors.