[Joques]

I just went back to my old email complaint to Random House back in 2010 for the last GAP book: "This Day All Gods Die". Some of you might find this humorous, others depressing. I only got a rote reply: "Thank you, we will forward this to our proofreading team". But as far as I know, the files were never updated. At least not until after I had given up on them.

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"Now for the wealth of errors. Like I said, I only started about 200
pages into it, and even then there are bound to be lots of errors I
didn't catch. Esp. the use of itallics seems very fishy in places.

P239: Example of a sentence that makes no sense - some words have been
accidentally deleted or something:
"I got the impression he's willing to cover our asses as well as his
own" of a singularity grenade makes ut innocent."

P241: Same kind of error:
"But when UMCPDA welded Angus, Warden had in decision by staking
everything on the people she knew best."

P245: Same kind of error:
"Then Marc Bator."
This should be somethign to do with Marc Vestabule and Suka Bator, but
words have disappeared in editing.

P246: Same kind of error:
"my actions with civilians." law," he admitted to his crew"

P256: "then fell my forces" should be "tell my forces"

P266: "You don't Speak for this ship." Very common error:
Inappropriate capitals in the middle of a sentence.

P291: "Abdullah disdained the courtesy of Waiting for. Len to call on
him." Inappropriate capital and punctuation.

Are you dismayed by the state of this text yet? Don't worry, there's
tons more to come.

P308: "What,failed?" Inappr. comma.

P315: "Why didn't you take (tare of it" This one is a doozy.
Parenthesis instead of the letter "c".

P320: "UMCP director] He did this to you." Inappr. square parenthesis
and lacking punctuation.

P330: "if he could have borne it." Here, "it" is italicized instead of "borne".

P334: "her dishes are occulted." Should most likely be "occluded".

P342: "Weil come up with an answer." This error is very prevalent.
"Weil" instead of "We'll". There are numerous occurrences. I will
refrain from repeating all of them. This is after all not my job, and
I don't get paid for it.

P349: "die inside himself And he'd promised" Lacking punctuation.

P370: "You haven't earned the right to be so tucking self-righteous"
Should be fucking. I think there are more of this error.

P412: "Captain Vertigus may hot have" Should be "not".

P422: "I'm the UMCP PR director." For consistency's sake should be
UMCPPR without space.

P424: "mounted it,and aimed his bulk" Lacking space. And possibly inappr. comma?

P429: "why she'd let Morn take command" inappr. carriage return after "Morn".

P434: "The sheep were faking too long." Should be "taking".

P436: "I don't mean to in trade." Should be intrude.

P436: "Hannish shouted at His back" Inappr. capitals.

P443: "practically in sane" should be insane.

P448: "Calm Horizons', beyond" Should be "Calm Horizons".

P450: "she needed TO hear" inappr. capitals

P454: "If he knew what he Was doing." Inappr. capitals.

... Ok, that's about a fourth of the errors that I've detected. No
doubt there are many more. I'll leave it there, for now. I hope to
hear from you with a message that this one, and "Chaos and Order",
will be updated with new proofreading and rereleased."