End of Chapter 25
The website has been receiving a lot of mail (more than 200 emails and private messages now) concerning The Gypsy Morph and the end of Chapter 25—page 285 in the US edition and page 283 in the UK edition.
The chapter ends in mid-thought, with no punctuation.
Terry planned this. It is in the original manuscript and it is in every other book out there. It is not a misprint or typo or error.
I repeat: It is not an error.
For those who want to know exactly what happened to that character, Terry asks you to go back and re-read the last few paragraphs leading up to the last sentence. It should become apparent what happened to that character. If it does not become apparent, feel free to visit the Forum where it is being discussed right now and learn the fate of that character and why the chapter ends as it does: The End of Chapter 25. Cheers!
The chapter ends in mid-thought, with no punctuation.
Terry planned this. It is in the original manuscript and it is in every other book out there. It is not a misprint or typo or error.
I repeat: It is not an error.
For those who want to know exactly what happened to that character, Terry asks you to go back and re-read the last few paragraphs leading up to the last sentence. It should become apparent what happened to that character. If it does not become apparent, feel free to visit the Forum where it is being discussed right now and learn the fate of that character and why the chapter ends as it does: The End of Chapter 25. Cheers!
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posted by Shawn C. Speakman | 7:40 AM
3 Comments:
This planned ending to the chapter did not have Terry's desired effect for me. Though I suspected what would happen, I was thoroughly distracted and shocked by what I thought was a very untimely printing error. I immediately dropped the book and logged on to the internet, determined to locate a posting that contained the end of the chapter. Had there been so little as a dash after the truncated word, I'd have been sitting in shock and dismay at the chapter ending instead - which I believe would have been Terry's intended effect.
I urge Terry and the publisher to change the method used to end this chapter for future publications.
It wasn't mid-thought, it was mid-description. If you wished it not to be distracting not annoy someone, use something such as punctuation. There is no reason to not add punctuation there to let those reading understand what's happening. Absurd!
I think it may just be a convenient excuse for an editing error.
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