There are few things more annoying than losing a book you are half way through, which happens to be the third and final book in a series.
OK their are a lot of things more annoying (like losing a limb I suppose), but it's aggravating none the less.
I mean the book wasn't brilliant, but it was entertaining and I would like to finish it. Ah well, that's a walk past the book store on the way home I guess.
Gah.
1. razorhead
I once bought a brilliant book from an airport stationers for a read on holiday. I got to the last couple of chapters, only to find they were for a completely different book. The printers had inserted a whole chunk of another book in place of the one i’d bought. It also took me a few pages of confusion before I’d figured it out.
2. Adrian
There was 150 pages repeated and hence missing in Terry Pratchett’s “Small Gods”. Didn’t actually affect the story that much though.
3. Gordon
I don’t think I’ve ever had anything like that in a book… but then I do tend to speed read and if it’s an odd page or so I may not notice (you know, those pages where the author takes an age to describe the golden fields of …. blah blah… skip… blah… skip.. ohh a good bit again..).
Mind you I think I’d notice a big chunk… think..
4. Sara
Want to read a strange book? Try House of Leaves. Inside is basically two stories in one (one main story, and another by footnotes), try pages and pages with just one or two words on them, crooked typing… now THAT’S a good read! (By the way.. the book is actually totally interesting in case you wondered)
5. Chris
My copy of Bill Bryson’s A Short History Of Nearly Everything is missing about 75 pages from the middle of the chapter on the biology of evolution. It’s clearly a conspiracy masterminded by the intelligent design lobby to keep me from hearing the evil satanic lies about evolution that were originally there.