Night Watch misprint?!

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Feb 3, 2011
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Or should I say misbind?!
I have a US copy of Night Watch, printed by Harper Torch, bought in L.A. last year, or maybe the year before, and everything is fine up until page 25, where all of a sudden I find myself reading a book called Innocent As Sin by Elizabeth Lowell. It looks like that book also is on page 25, so page numbers are correct.
Elizabeth Lowell's book then continues all the way up until page 57, where Night Watch suddenly is back again, continuing in the middle of a sentence, like 32 pages aren't missing at all, so I assume it continues on the books real page 57...
Anyone else seen this?
 

Tonyblack

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Hi there and welcome to the site. :)

We have seen this sort of thing before - not sure how it happens or how common. I think I'd be as annoyed as hell if it happened to me mid book. o_O

Maybe you could contact Harper via email.
 

Sir Samuel Vimes

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thedruidess said:
Or should I say misbind?!
I have a US copy of Night Watch, printed by Harper Torch, bought in L.A. last year, or maybe the year before, and everything is fine up until page 25, where all of a sudden I find myself reading a book called Innocent As Sin by Elizabeth Lowell. It looks like that book also is on page 25, so page numbers are correct.
Elizabeth Lowell's book then continues all the way up until page 57, where Night Watch suddenly is back again, continuing in the middle of a sentence, like 32 pages aren't missing at all, so I assume it continues on the books real page 57...
Anyone else seen this?

Who is this Elizabeth Lowell, and why is her book deemed so incendiary as to be hidden in one of TP's masterpieces? :laugh: Also, aren't you supposed to hide illicit material in dull books. :think: I believe that Vetinari does when, in Night Watch, he stitches the camouflage book into 'annecdotes of famous accountants', or something similar? Not sure of the Camouflage author's name in the book - was it Grenville something? He does seem like a Pratchett parady of Abbott Thayer, anyway. At least, he always seemed like that to me. :shifty:
 

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