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I'm sorry for the bad quality. However we really did as what you said. To make things clear, could you please give me name of jobs with bad quality? If possible, the errors with picture. Only told us what's problem is no enough, The more pictures you can send to us, the more clearly we can understand what's the problem.

This shows up multiple times in Weaver at the beginning of Part 3.

I wasn't able to make sense of why this shows up several times, apparently separated from the story. I get the feeling it's an indication of wobbles in the timestream, but I don't see any other references to it in the book.

Here's a link and some screenshots showing what I'm talking about.

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  • That link, plus the one you commented in Richard's answer, are just linking to the book's Amazon page (rather than a page of text). Might just be my browser being stupid, but I thought I'd let you know in case you pasted the wrong link :)
    – Mac Cooper
    Commented Mar 26, 2015 at 20:22
  • When I follow it, I end up at Google Books, and it shows the text of the book...
    – Almo
    Commented Mar 26, 2015 at 20:28
  • Dunno why I said Amazon, I meant Google XD but no text, on any browser. But it must be me then, just wanted to check you did have the right link :)
    – Mac Cooper
    Commented Mar 26, 2015 at 20:43
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    @Almo I see the same thing you do when I click the link. Richard's answer is probably correct, or at least close to the truth - it is evidence of some kind of miscommunication between the editor and publisher, although this makes it very puzzling that the person responsible for the error uses broken English. An editor would presumably know proper grammar and sentence structure.
    – Wad Cheber
    Commented Jul 19, 2015 at 6:45
  • @Almo - Were you reading a hard copy (as in, a physical book), or an eBook version?
    – Wad Cheber
    Commented Jul 19, 2015 at 6:47

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Rather amusingly, this 'rogue paragraph' appears to be a comment from the book's editor that has somehow crept into the ebook version.

As you can see here, in the google books version the paragraph doesn't appear.

The air in the farmhouse kitchen was a mass of cigarette smoke and steamy cooking smells.

‘I’m telling you you’re not going out again dressed like a bloody little tart.’

'What are you going to do, Dad, thump me again?’ Sitting at the kitchen table, Ernst sighed.

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    I see it in Google books: books.google.ca/…
    – Almo
    Commented Mar 26, 2015 at 19:58
  • I see it too. If you google the first couple of sentences (and put them in quotation marks), the only results you get are Google books and some sites that are devoted to hosting free copies of books.
    – Wad Cheber
    Commented Jul 19, 2015 at 6:42
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    It's not in the dead-tree version of the book. The second example was very easy to locate. In my copy there is no extra text between "I'm telling you [...] bloody little tart." and "What are you going to do, Dad, thump me again?"
    – user45485
    Commented Jul 19, 2015 at 16:53

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