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To Ride Pegasus 9780345916440 Books

I am sick that I paid good money for such a terrible mess. I had the original paperbacks years ago, but lost them during a move. I was excited about re-reading old favorites on my Kindle.

It's not just the enormous number of misspelled words. Nor is it the horrible lack of apostrophes and periods and most punctuation.

It's that on nearly every page, and often several times per page, unrelated sentences are joined together and very obviously are NOT supposed to be. "Sentences are merged randomlyTheres a dog in the yardLets go said the IRS officer" That's a paraphrased example. And it's FREQUENT. And it's annoying. Who "edited" this? because you need to fire them. NOW.

Worst of all: The storyline is broken and badly jumbled. It's like someone printed a few sentences on an index card, then continued until the whole book was on hundreds of index cards.

And then somebody threw them all up in the air. During a tornado.

And then grabbed them into a stack, and printed as the Kindle version.

In 20 minutes of valiant struggling, the story jerked from Darrow in the hospital, without transition to a test of Ralph before businessmen, abruptly and in the same paragraph going to the landlord Frank, jumps to the Police Commissioner, then to the middle of something about the IRS, to immediately bouncing back to Frank and the housing problem - I want my money back. This is not acceptable. Poor Anne must be rolling over in her grave.

Who created this crappy version? Fire them. And give me back my money.


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To Ride Pegasus 9780345916440 Books Reviews

I love the stories in this book and that's why I wanted a kindle copy. However, as other reviewers have noted, this copy is awful. It is full of misspellings and errors. If you are like me and these issues make it hard to focus on the story, DON"T BUY THIS VERSION.

Like I said before, I love Anne McCaffrey's writings and this is an especially good set of stories.
This great story has many many typos. Every 3 pages has a typo on it.
Examples 'comuit' instead of 'comunit' 'zoom' instead of 'room' 'Dai op Owen' instead of 'Daffyd op Owen'
'out' instead of 'cut'. There are many more errors that I corrected as I read or glossed over as nonsense.

The errors interrupt the flow of the story and make for frustration rather than entertainment.

This is one of my favorite authors. I may not buy any more of her books on because of the error rate. The price seems too high for careless work.
I read this when I was much younger, and it doesn't really hold up. The premise is great, the story is still interesting, but on re-reading, I couldn't get past how wildly sexist it is. It has all of McCaffrey's usual strengths--vivid descriptions, world-building, practical attention to detail--and weaknesses; the people don't act quite like people. Writing with an underlying agenda about how men and women should relate to each other always comes across as failure to create believable, sympathetic characters.
Since I loved McCaffrey's Pern series greatly, this book was quite a let down. She doesn't seem to have the same enthusiasm for this triplet, not the characters, not their goals, not the action, not even the description of the the people and places. Definitely not the love, in fact, I don't think McCaffrey felt much love for this story and it comes through loud and clearly. At the beginning, she is careful about creating main characters with personality but in a means of showing time passing by bringing in replacement characters (since no one lives forever), the initial characters completely disappear abruptly for the rest of the book, once once was there even a reference to the founder. I also found the crises rather unbelievable and unrealistic. At this time, I am not planning to read the two books remaining in the triplet, maybe in the future when I have nothing else to read I may do so then.
Agree with previous reviewers who said this edition is full of errors. Whoever did the conversion to format evidently turned on autocorrect and dispensed with an actual editor - typos abound, from characters names to basic words that anyone could see from context cannot possibly be right. Even at $1.99 I feel like I overpaid for this shoddy effort. It is still readable, but just barely and with great frustration.
I am sick that I paid good money for such a terrible mess. I had the original paperbacks years ago, but lost them during a move. I was excited about re-reading old favorites on my .

It's not just the enormous number of misspelled words. Nor is it the horrible lack of apostrophes and periods and most punctuation.

It's that on nearly every page, and often several times per page, unrelated sentences are joined together and very obviously are NOT supposed to be. "Sentences are merged randomlyTheres a dog in the yardLets go said the IRS officer" That's a paraphrased example. And it's FREQUENT. And it's annoying. Who "edited" this? because you need to fire them. NOW.

Worst of all The storyline is broken and badly jumbled. It's like someone printed a few sentences on an index card, then continued until the whole book was on hundreds of index cards.

And then somebody threw them all up in the air. During a tornado.

And then grabbed them into a stack, and printed as the version.

In 20 minutes of valiant struggling, the story jerked from Darrow in the hospital, without transition to a test of Ralph before businessmen, abruptly and in the same paragraph going to the landlord Frank, jumps to the Police Commissioner, then to the middle of something about the IRS, to immediately bouncing back to Frank and the housing problem - I want my money back. This is not acceptable. Poor Anne must be rolling over in her grave.

Who created this crappy version? Fire them. And give me back my money.