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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 have not seen that, I will have to check it out.
I thought stranger in a strange land would make a great miniseries. I loved that book as a teen. I read it as an adult some years ago and it didn't hit the same way. Still, it could be adapted to an impactful story today. People would learn where grok came from and disassociate it with Musk's racist piece of trash (pisses me off).
The anecdote that I heard about "Stranger..." is the Heinlein made more money from film options than he ever made from book sales. Apparently, David Bowie and dozens of other folks wanted to make the movie, but it never came together.
Enjoy.
To be fair, I don't think it would be easy to market something that faithfully adapts the second half of Stranger.
I've never seen the movie, but apparently Bowie stole a lot of 'Stranger...' for 'The Man Who Fell To earth.'
Movies were a bit wilder back in the day. "Little Big Man" painted Custer as an incompetent psychopath and John Waters' "Female Trouble" ran in main stream movie houses.
Personally, I think a six to eight hour limited series would be the way to go.