100 Words or Less (Plus some formatting comments)
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By JRubino
Déjà vu! That’s my reaction to Underworld, and unfortunately it’s not good.
About 100 pages into the novel the slow burning realization finally hits home: I’ve read this before.
Maybe a dozen years ago, I read this novel and do not remember any characters, plot, image, scene, or dialogue. Only when rereading certain sections did I begin to admit “Oh yeah, this sounds vaguely naggingly familiar.” Nothing specific. Simply a general feeling I’ve been bored by all this before.
What a sad commentary on a book to remember nothing about it. Or is that a reflection on me?
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There are some minor bugs that pop up within the ebook I downloaded. Examples:
1. “Pd” instead of “I’d”
2. misplaced hyphenization, like “move-ment” in the middle of a sentence
3. misplaced line breaks, truncating a sentence before the edge of the paragraph
The reason for these mistakes is that each page was scanned from an original paper-printed copy. However, good this text scanning has become, it’s not perfect. Thus, whatever formatting the original book had, it is kept. And sometimes, it misrecognizes certain words.
Yeah, it doesn’t really affect the novel, per se. But it’s sloppy. It's hard to ignore. It shows a laziness. A lack of quality. It rips you out of the story. And frankly, it’s unprofessional.