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Discussion in 'Other Racing' started by WCH, Jul 12, 2004.

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  1. WCH

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    #1 WCH, Jul 12, 2004
    Has anyone else here read the new Brock Yates book about the 1955 racing season, "Against Death and Time?" I am a Yates fan and enjoyed the book, but found the "faction" approach off-putting; I preferred the facts to the fiction. Also, the book is perhaps the most poorly proofread work I've ever encountered.
     
  2. Erik330

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    #2 Erik330, Jul 13, 2004
    I have not read it but plan to. Yates is a good writer, but every book he has written has been poorly proofread. Remember his Ferrari book?
     
  3. WCH

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    #3 WCH, Jul 13, 2004
    I haven't read his Ferrari book, but plan to pick it up; I've read the Cannonball Run book. The proofreading errors are surprising in the computer era - a simple spell check sweep through the manuscript would have caught most of the errors. Don't mean to nitpick the book, I mentioned it only because it surprised me - maybe it's part of the Yates persona, big fingers on an old manual typewriter, errors in scanning not picked up? ;)
     

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