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Post by Charlotte on Jan 9, 2014 18:25:33 GMT 1
Have you noticed anything in pony books that does'nt seem to make sense? This seems to be fairly common with the Chalet School books though I've not read enough of them to notice. But in Frenchman's Secret (otherwise a good read) when the lost pipeline is found and tested, it seems odd that the water is poured down from a high field towards the obviously deep ravine, and not the other way round. Even though the possible former presence of a hydraulic ram (pump) is mentioned presumably to draw water from the smallbrook, how was it really going to get up such a steep slope, why does Lindsey fall out of a tree and find it in an odd fragment of drystone wall?
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Post by Claire on Jan 9, 2014 21:26:39 GMT 1
Interesting idea for a post. I'm not very good on such things tho as I'm not very observant and tend to skip over bits in books/speed read. I'm sure there are lots of things, one I can think of straight off is funnily enough also from Monica Edwards. In No Mistaking Corker, the first book about the Thornton family, Dion is younger than Lindsey but in the rest of the Punchbowl series he is older. It wasn't a mistake tho it was done deliberately as the author thought Dion would be too young to take on the mantle of the farm if he was younger than Lindsey. I must say I probably do have a thing about ages and I do notice if ages are out in different books about the same characters.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2014 7:51:05 GMT 1
The mistakes that wind me up the most are incorrect illustrations. Horses the wrong colour on the covers that sort of thing.
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Post by Charlotte on Jan 11, 2014 3:40:40 GMT 1
Interesting idea for a post. I'm not very good on such things tho as I'm not very observant and tend to skip over bits in books/speed read. I'm sure there are lots of things, one I can think of straight off is funnily enough also from Monica Edwards. In No Mistaking Corker, the first book about the Thornton family, Dion is younger than Lindsey but in the rest of the Punchbowl series he is older. It wasn't a mistake tho it was done deliberately as the author thought Dion would be too young to take on the mantle of the farm if he was younger than Lindsey. I must say I probably do have a thing about ages and I do notice if ages are out in different books about the same characters. It was'nt my idea, the mistakes theme is well-known at the CS forum. Unlike me, many over there have seemingly encyclopaedic knowledge of the books so notice errors. They also do quite a lot of fairly highbrow/serious literary discussion. My experience with pony books is'nt huge either, mostly only read MEDW/some by PT sisters.
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Post by cally on Feb 9, 2014 2:10:58 GMT 1
The worst mistake I've come across- to my mind, anyway, was in a book I can't for the life of me remember just now: basically the children had borrowed a saddle from someone and broke the tree and were without a saddle, and then the writer later described them as riding in a saddle- no explanation of where it came from. It's NOT 'For Want of a Saddle', I just flicked through that, and it's not 'Ponies in the Valley' and now I'm going to spend all day looking for the blooming book!!!
AH! Found it and I was wrong- I think: there may be another book where a saddle materialises from nowhere, but the book I had in mind was Patricia Leitch's 'A Pony of Our Own'. Jean and Stuart Donaldson buy Kirsty and only have a bridle, then Sandy gets invited to go down to a farm with her older brother Roland's girlfriend for a weekend and suddenly she has a bridle AND a saddle! If only life were that simple! Such a silly error- she made a point of stating about their bareback riding so why 'forget' and have a saddle appear from nowhere?
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Post by kunuma on Feb 10, 2014 15:30:03 GMT 1
With me it's the ponies and dogs getting wrongly described that winds me up - in the last = and not at all good - of the Augusta and Christine books, one of Christine's horses changes sex. Another odd thing is where Jill is acquiring the vet's horses in a STable for Jill, and she sends them off to the farrier to be clipped!!! a) Since when did farriers clip horses, and b)it was the wrong time of year!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2014 19:32:45 GMT 1
One I had recently, and now can't remember which book as per usual, was a whole sentence in the wrong place. Poor proof reading!
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Post by Claire on Feb 10, 2014 23:48:11 GMT 1
One of the worst mistakes was in a book by Eleanor Jones (will have to check as cant remember which one) where the author completely mixed up 2 of the characters in one section.
I recall someone telling me there was also quite a lot of horsy bloopers in the Stacy Gregg pony rivals books, including the priceless statement that grey was one of the rarest colours for an Arab!
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Post by maggie on Feb 15, 2014 7:39:00 GMT 1
There were quite a few in the Pony Club Rivals books, Claire, which is a shame because they were a fun read.
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Post by Charlotte on Feb 17, 2014 4:14:51 GMT 1
When reading old hardback pony or other books there are quite often just typos, not surprising perhaps as there were no spellcheckers then.
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