Death Comes For the Archbishop: unreadable
Although it was published in February 2010 (Cassia Press), it was unreadable as every tenth (or so) word was run together with the next. This formatting problem began immediately in the Prologue and continued throughout the book. Although one could figure out what was being written, it was painful to read. Thankfully, I was able to take it out of the local library as I needed to read it for an upsoming Elderhostel trip. Plan to return it when we return from our travels!!!!
Novel Better Than Publication
While Death Comes for the Archbishop is not a novel I'd place in a "Top Novels" list, I found it an interesting story about interesting people; a story about people who leave their (relative) comfort and spend their lives striving to attain their personal goals in a harsh and alien environment. Less attractive was the particular publication, listed by Amazon as CreateSpace. Perhaps through some artifact of OCR digitalization, there exists about one instance per line of run-together words. Examples like "smoothlywhitewashed" and "thechurch" are some small difficulty, but some proportion such as the line-end hyphenation "dayth-rough" or "torecommend" caused me to pause in an effort to figure out this unfamiliar word. The publication was about eight dollars cheaper than the next, but it turns out this was a penny-wise purchase.
Are all editors dead?
This book was apparently edited by a robot with 64K RAM. Almost every line has words that are run together. Let me give a random example from page 61:
line 1: "looked at the skyand shook his head." ... "the air wasthick"
line 2: "the snow began tofall--"
line 3: "Thevista of pine trees..."
line 4: "...shorter throughthe vast..."
And I am not exaggerating when I say that every page and almost every line has these idiotic errors. Did anyone at Cassia Press look at this book after it was printed? Embarrassingly incompetent work; or, as they would print it: Embarrassingly imcompetentwork.
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