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What's the weirdest typo/error you've seen in a book?
(lemmy.world)
I’m currently reading “The Number of the Beast” by Robert Heinlein. Book is from the 1980s, and there’s a completely doubled up paragraph in the book! It spans two pages but the image shows enough I think.
I enjoyed it as a teen when I read it. I can see how it's not the best writing, the characters are very static and shallow, but I loved some of the basic ideas. I did think it got a bit weird at the end merging fantasy with everything else.
Its been a LONG time for me, but doesn't it get weird incestous and pedo at the end?
The incest is heavy at then start, and the pedo has kinda maybe been there in his previous writing? He seems to like the “smaller” and more “meek” women in his stories, but I’ve only read a few so far.
Basically it’s a father daughter and two other people who almost had a thing, and they don’t care about flaunting stuff around.
And Deety has stated she wouldn’t have turned her Pop down.
yeah. I try to give him some grace as a scifi writer with him seeing the sexual revolution in the 60s based on the release of the pill and trying to imagine where the trajectory will end in 50, 100 years when you separate sex from reproduction. Still his take was kinda creepy and gross.
I think the worst example of him trying to write women was "I Will Fear No Evil". It is an interesting story as it attempts to reconcile sex and gender written from a cis man in the 1970s, but its pretty messed up. I appreciate that he seems to attempt to bring these ideas into mainstream consciousness, I just wonder if he could have done some more research.
Maybe. A lot of the older classic authors have their downsides in how they write their books, and if anything I remember Heinlein's women were not that great. I liked some of their traits, but they were in the end shallow. Fortunately modern writers have evolves, right? :/
The ending of NotB was so off for me for whatever reason that I can't really remember it. I can remember other books of his pretty well. Must mean something. But it was the initial concept that got things going and some of the early character stuff that I liked.