Hatrack River Forum: Alas! I'm so vexed!

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Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

I'm currently reading Gene Wolfe's short story collection Storeys From the Old Hotel. I really enjoy it. This morning, I found myself deeply entrenched in "In Looking Glass Castle," and especially satisfied that I figured out a main plot element very early on. Ha ha! Look at me, super short story brilliance woman!

I turn the page, the tension mounting. She just received a gift of a fish in a china bowl from the man secretly living in her house! What shall happen? I glance at the next page and note, amusedly, that the story title at the top of the page is mistakenly that of an earlier story, "The Green Rabbit from S'Rian." Ha ha! How droll! What a goofy error on behalf of the...

Oh no! My current heroine is not supposed to be giving orders to the timesman aft! This really is "The Green Rabbit from S'Rian!" And there it was, after page 174 came page 15. And that wasn't the worst of it: the duplicate pages continued, all the way until page 46 (v.2.0), and when the regularly scheduled book resumed, it was with page 207, well into a new story!

I shall never know what happens to the heroine of "In Looking Glass Castle" and her mysterious verboten man friend! Alas!

Posted by IvyGirl (Member # 6252) on :

[Frown]

I'm sorry, Annie. That stinks. Is there a way for you get another copy that might have it correctly? Or is it that way in all the books of it?

Ivygirl

[ September 09, 2004, 05:49 PM: Message edited by: IvyGirl ]

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

I find it humorous that a book with "looking glass" in the title has duplicate pages.

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

I've had a hard time finding any Gene Wolfe books locally. The library has the best selection, and of course it doesn't have this particular one. I got this copy in Missoula.

On a related note, has anyone ever read Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler?

Posted by Mintieman (Member # 4620) on :

Haha, I have indeed read If on a winter night a traveler and this does reminds me of it. Delightful book btw

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

I think I shall go try to find my copy of it to take my mind off of my malaise. Either that, or I'll take to reading Borges again. That stuff's like an antiseptic for your brain.