Bone Island Mambo (Alex Rutledge Series #3) (2001) - Plot & Excerpts
Read the E-version with a red pen in hand.Frankly, I enjoyed the story. It would be easy to dis-believe many of the actions of full-time Key West inhabitants, but their actions ring true to real life. Corcoran suffers the same problem that Carl Hiassen suffers; the raw material for characters is almost TOO good. You can't make this s$@t up!Now... The e-version of this book is rife with errors! I'd estimate that one sentence in ten lacks a period at the end. This is NOT an e e cummings sort of attention getter. This is either bad editing, or some screw-up in converting the book to a kindle format. Wasn't this in electronic format to start with? Do writers use typewriters any more?Another editing problem: "Marnie" vs "Mamie!" They're used interchangeably in the text. Is there an extra character I'm missing? Is it just typesetting? Lord knows Corcoran has enough Conch characters in here to fill a bar at lunch hour. We don't need crappy editing adding in a ghost!Most amusing is the interjection, about 19 times (do a search), of "die." In context (and I'll imitate die book here) die use of diese typo distracts me from die plot of die book. Now... "die" is die German definite article, feminine singular nominative form, meaning "the" in English. What in die hell is it doing here? Do they edit diese things at all?That's my rant. Pretty good book. Really bad Kindle e-book product. I'll try more Tom Corcoran, but I'll be watching for more crappy product. Makes me feel like being an e-reader makes me a second class citizen! I'll betcha no hard-cover edition hit the shelves looking like something never seen by a copy editor.
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