Great book, shoddy production.
357364
I have just finished reading the Kindle edition of "Last Words" and it's brilliant and funny and well worth reading. However, I was struck by how awful the copy editing and production is. The book is so full of typos it's like reading a blog or something. Words are run together, and many proper names are uncapitalized. The title of chapter 18 is written as "BWING, DOING, GETTING", for instance (it's correctly written as "BEING", not "BWING", in the TOC). The photo at the head of Chapter 15, identified as "George and Patrick Carlin", is in fact a photo of Carlin performing, repeated from the previous chapter. And so on. Really, this is shockingly bad. I hope the print edition is better.

Still, great book!
1472541
I enjoyed the book, but the recorded version was spoiled for me by innumerable mispronunciations and misplaced emphases in sentences. Borges has a lively and dramatic reading style; too bad she made so many errors.
4143152
This is a great book, spoiled by very poor reproduction. The illustrations look like thumbnail resolution drawings, blown up to full size, resulting in most of them being rendered almost useless. In my copy, all of the page numbers are cut off, making it a challenge to find things from the index.

In spite of all of this, the information in the book is priceless if you want to understand your KT100..... If only the illustrations were readable.
4136011
I've been listening to the audiobooks for A Song of Ice and Fire and the first three books were wonderful as read by Mr. Dotrice!  However, this is the book in which I decided to write a review.  I was disappointed in the audiobook production quality.  Roy Dotrice does a terrific job of reading the book, but he fowls up many of the character voices that had been established since the first book!  Jaime's lost his accent.  Arya sounds like an old woman.  Samwell had sounded perfect to his description, but now sounds like a big idiot (he's a coward, not stupid).  Petyr went from a cunning whisper to sounding like a Baratheon!  Some of the voices slip back into their old sound once in awhile.  Not only did the voices get changed but the pronunciations are inconsistent compared to the first books or even within chapters.  Brienne becomes bree-ann or bri-een at random.  Petyr was once Pet-ire is now the commonly accepted Peter (I like pet-ire better).

I know a lot of people are blaming Dotrice for this (he's 90 as I write this) but really this is the fault of his production crew.  Dotrice still uses a wide range of character voices and reads the narrative with his excellent voice.  The production team should have been spot checking his work and making sure it was consistent (with pronunciations) and helping Dotrice to reference his previous voices.  Keep in mind A Feast For Crows came out 5 years after A Storm of Swords so I can't blame Dotrice for forgetting some voices.  It's a real shame because I had fallen in love with the characters to the point where I could tell who was talking based solely on the voice Mr. Dotrice was using.  Consistency should always be maintained in audiobook format and this one falls flat.
3968785
This review covers only the Gateway Movie Classics edition, softcover, 1999.

What a thrill to revisit this gripping story that I enjoyed in childhood so much. Good writing, excellent story-telling, if you're not too squeamish to tolerate late 19th century colonialist literature.

But skip this edition. Mainly because of the numerous typos scattered inanely through the book...periods dropped into the middle of sentences, rogue exclamation points, and words inaccurately transcribed as though an original text had been OCR scanned without any professional quality checking. Inexusable in a professional publication. And, frankly, I don't think the movie is all that great, so the cover photo of a film version Quatermain doesn't do much for me.

Get another edition!
3410577
Napoleon Hill is a genius, and Think & Grow Rich is a fantastic book... this review is not a reflection of the original book... but unfortunately, this version is sloppily published and filled with typos.

It appears that the publisher copied and pasted then rushed this thing to print without even giving it a "once over."

Do yourself a favor. READ THIS BOOK... but find a version that does the original justice.
3673889
The content is amazing, so many pages of great stuff. There must be an issue with the binding, this is my 2nd copy and both are warped.
2799838
The information contained in this book is excellent. The pictures are wonderful to look at. However, there are a lot of grammatical errors within the text, which dimishes the book overall. I don't like being distracted while i am reading because commas are left out, hyphens are misused, words running together, using terminology like "much married", just to name a few. The editors/proof readers have done an injustice to the authors. Kensington books are expensive, which is fine because the content is good quality, but not when there are so many errors.
1352974
I love this book, and the entire series.  I had read them a couple times over twenty years ago, and wanted to read them again, so I pulled out my old paperbacks, but they were falling apart with age, so I decided to get the Kindle versions.  I just finished the first two novels, and I was quite surprised to find many spelling and punctuation errors, such as "intinctively" for "instinctively," "Penny" for "Perry," no punctuation after the titles "Mr" and Mrs" and errant capitalizations and misspellings throughout, misplaced indentations, etc.  I actually went back and checked the printed version to see if it could have possibly always been that way but no, the Kindle version just had incredibly shoddy proofreading, which I find odd in this day of computerized spell-check.  Sigh.  I love the Kindle, but this is preposterous treatment of a beautiful, classic work of fiction by a Nobel Prize winning author.
3369680
I think the most disappointing part of this book was the incredibly poor production quality. I believe the first surprise was unique to my book, but the cover is on upside-down. At first I just thought the dust jacket was on upside-down, but the graphics on the hardcovers and the writing on the spine are upside-down in relation to the print inside the book. I could let that go considering I'd rarely ever see that, but I'd KNOW, and it was just the first sign. The other, more unforgivable, production sins are related to the binding. "Cheap" and "flimsy" would be insults to cheap and flimsy things. Every time I turned a page I could hear the glue cracking and the threads from the sewing were very clearly visible from top to bottom (or bottom to top depending on how you look at the cover <grin>). So, if you're looking for a book that isn't about to fall apart, look elsewhere.

Now the recipes: Some of the recipes in this book look really good. The Pecan Brownies from the cover are simple and beautiful, using ingredients you probably have on hand. However, the very next recipe (Swedish Cheesecake) uses liquid rennet which I'm thinking most people don't keep on hand. Most American cooks would even be hard-pressed to figure out where to GET liquid rennet. The pictures are beautiful and actually of things you want to see. Roux is obviously a phenomenal artist, and this book shows that artistry well, but most of the recipes are far too involved or frou-frou for most cooks. Unless your passion is esoteric dessert cookery, the vast majority of these recipes probably won't be ones you make often if ever.
1137247
The content is, of course, excellent, and deserves 5 stars.  The editing, however, is shoddy and annoying.  It's a pity Fitch couldn't see a professional copy of his classic work before he died.
There are misspelled words: "ideed" vs. "indeed," p 13; "pressence" vs. "presence," p 55;  "centure" vs. "century," p247; "Sienna" vs. "Siena," p 329, and others).  Wrong dates are given: "...completely reconstructed to an assumed date of 1976" vs. 1776, p 275.  Different information is given regarding the same process: ("flourescent dyes had to be added," p 338 vs. "had to be stamped with a metal die," p 342).  LeMoyne is referred to as "LeMoyne" and as "Lemoyne," pp 17 & 18; Anne Cunningham is referred to as both "Anne" and "Ann," pp ix, x, 89, 90.  Comma and semicolon use is weak, the use of italics with foreign words is inconsistent.
459784
Great recipes, and pics, but workmanship of the book is shabby. My binding glue is already detached, and the thread Staples holding the pages don't support the pages well. I feel like the pages become detached and tear off at binding.
1971833
This book is definitely worth reading, but the printing of the two books I bought as gifts was a botched job.  I had to return the books and look for another company.
4701557
This is a great book!!  Unfortunately, I have a copy of the 2013 Gresham Publishing edition, which is probably the sloppiest, most carelessly printed book I've ever read.  Hopefully this publisher has done a better job with it, starting with not having a computer spell-check being the only "proof reading" done before printing.
4389997
I would give this book 4 stars for content and zero stars for production quality of the Kindle version. The kindle version is missing the ends of many chapters. The chapters in this book usually build to a conclusion, so missing the ends is especially frustrating. The ends are actually much more important than the rest of the chapter. Sometimes instead of being missing, the end has two pages of superimposed print. Ultimately I figured out that by using the smallest font size the ends of chapters would go OK. However, that print size gives me a headache. I would not have bought the book if I had been warned that I had to either read it in the tiniest print size or do without the ends of the chapters. I've read at least 50 other Kindle books, and none had any missing pieces.

I hate writing a negative review, especially based largely on production quality instead of book contents. I do so hoping the author or publisher will take note and fix the problem. In that case, I'll happily remove this review.
2325844
I was highly anticipating the publication of this new version of the greatest book in the world. The OT editor, Dr. Collins, gave us a preview of the work and it sounded incredibly exciting and fresh. The content seems to uphold the promises made.
However, I have one huge beef: it is a horrendous piece of typographical slop. Simply open up to the poetic books and you will see what I mean: widows, rivers, pig bristles, some of the most obvious and glaring mistakes in typography are commonplace on every page.
Further, the width of the columns and the setting of the line length were not seriously considered. This has lead to the abundance of "hangers" that imply some specific meaning of the single words. It is misleading. I asked one of the editors of Ecclesiastes if this was due to some emphasis in the Hebrew and he said, "nope."
The choice of typefaces looks like a last minute, deadline decision: Goudy's Berkeley for text and Frutiger for column notes, etc. Slapdash. No text figures, no smallcaps.
All in all, it is a mess. Had the publishers taken serious time and done some research the form of this book could have matched the fabulous content. As it is, it sits as another sad testimony to "Christian" marketing- get it out now, make your dollars now. I am saving my money and waiting for a dressing that fits the substance of the most unique book in the world.
2109711
Great story, poor quality book. This series is marvelous. A modern day adaptation of the classic story, in graphic novel form. Unfortunately, this product is poor in quality- the pages are not bound properly. Upon receipt, pages were falling out of the book due to bad binding.