Mistakes Within Books You've Read?

In the book The Great Gatsby it says that the man's irises were wide when he meant to say pupils.

In one of the Vampire Kisses books, it said that Trevor has green eyes and a few pages later it said he had blue eyes.

In The Dead Zone there's many spelling errors.

Also, at the start of the book he lost an eye but then when he's older and comes out of the coma he jokes about growing a third eye but he only has one?

And I don't know if it was done purposley but a whole paragraph in italics had no capitals for start of sentences or people's names.

If you want to find mistakes in books, read the House of Night series. You'll find mistakes on every page. >.>

Bittersweet Kiss:

If you want to find mistakes in books, read the House of Night series. You'll find mistakes on every page. >.>

I've noticed that. :| I love those books but it get annoying when there's a mistake on every other page.

So I bought the leather-bound Complete Works of William Shakespeare at Barnes and Noble, and was reading it. Well I was in the middle of Romeo and Juliet and I come to this part, and it says "Julia". I was like "What the heck, they put Julia instead of Juliet".

Then I looked on B&N's website to see if anyone saw it, nope, just me. Lol.

I was reading HP7 today and found the first mistake ever that I've noticed in J.K.'s books. She accidentally wrote "they" instead of "the." Hardly anything though. I wanted to tear out pages of P.C. Cast's House of Night series. Every page had a mistake. Drove me up the walls.

Jasper Ridley's Bloody Mary's Martyrs has numerous typos and misspellings.

My cop of David Copperfield spells Dora's last name wrong on the back cover and had numerous typos throughout. Drove me crazy.

In my copy of A Clash of Kings in Tyrion (2) Petyr's name changed to Petry and Peter at two different points

I found about four typos in the version of Crime and Punishment that we read in AP English last year

DarkestStorm:

So I bought the leather-bound Complete Works of William Shakespeare at Barnes and Noble, and was reading it. Well I was in the middle of Romeo and Juliet and I come to this part, and it says "Julia". I was like "What the heck, they put Julia instead of Juliet".

Then I looked on B&N's website to see if anyone saw it, nope, just me. Lol.

In a lot of Shakespeare's plays he has different spellings for different names, and it's always when it's said by someone else. I'm beginning to think it may possibly have a purpose, like how someone might say the name...

fat lamb:

If you want to find mistakes in books, read the House of Night series. You'll find mistakes on every page. >.>

You actually read through an entire House Of Night?
I actually feel sorry for you. I have no problem with PC Cast, but Kristin Cast should have her hands tied to her sides at all times. I wrote better than that when I was twelve.

Anyway, I really like Kailin Gow, but her books are full of typos and mistakes. Like at one part the character of Delano is refered to as the Pixie King, then several chapters later everyone is all, "GASP. YOU'RE THE PIXIE KING?"

I think it's in Stephenie Meyer's New Moon where Bella starts comparing hers and Edward's relationship to Romeo and Juliet, and she mentions "Rosalind" a couple of times. Except, Rosalind is from the play As You Like It. It's ROSALINE that's in R+J.

Her editor should be smacked.

In Holly Black's book ''Valient'' she has a character named Lolly as in ''Lollypop'', but throughout the book you will find that the name is spelled both as ''Lolly'' and ''Lolli'' which I thought was weird that an editor didn't catch that.

Also I was listening to William S. Burroughs read his short story ''From Here To Eternity'', and when I read it in the book the sentences went in a different order!

Also, my brother bought a book on Warner Brothers movies, and they wrote ''Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone'' which I have actually found in a lot of different books.

^ You mean that the movie and the book is not called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone? Because...it is, actually. Tis not a mistake at all. Apparently the name had to be changed for American audiences, as is a lot from the books themselves because apparently America readers couldn't pick up on a lot of the British words and such in the novels. Apparently.

(I grew up with 'Philosopher's Stone' and thought the movie had it all wrong when it was called the 'Sorcerer's Stone,' it doesn't make sense).

Spaceboy.Is.Relative:

Also, my brother bought a book on Warner Brothers movies, and they wrote ''Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone'' which I have actually found in a lot of different books.

Like the person above me mentioned, this isn't a mistake. Philosopher's Stone is the actual title; the stone itself wasn't made up by JK Rowling. The legend of the stone, its properties, and Nicholas Flamel has been around for hundreds of years. It was changed to make it more appealing to American audiences who had never heard of it.

GoshDarnFashionista
Whiskey Hands

I thought that Nicolas Flamel's Philosopher's Stone was common knowlege?
My thought was that J K Rowling had sort of re-written history for the book.
Thank you guys for clearing that up, I mean I feel like a dim wit for not knowing that, but thanks, haha.

I'm nearly finished reading Mademoiselle Boleyn by Robin Maxwell and found one simple little typo, a misplacement of "the" or something like that.

I also recently finished another of Kailin Gow's books, the second Frost book, and like the first there are mistakes in almost every chapter. I love her writing to pieces, but how hard is it to get a better editor? I feel as though she doesn't check her own work before sending it off. Or that she writes a few paragraphs, then goes back and checks it, writes a few more and reads over everything again, etc. I know I personally used to make crazy typos when I wrote like that, because you read it correctly in your head and don't realize with your eyes that you've messed it up.

I read Alyson Noel's Evermore a few weeks ago, and it was full of grammatical errors. There were a few misspellings in there as well, but not many.

The most amusing error was one which led me to believe that the main character's dead dog was a hermaphrodite.