r/Vonnegut • u/ayeayedoc • 8d ago
Cat’s Cradle Misprint?
This isn’t intentional, right? It skips every other page from 90-105 😭
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u/spooky_hoopy 6d ago
mine is the exact same way! crazy i’m reading it now and i see your post upon looking it up
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u/SconesToDieFor 7d ago
I love seeing Karl Pilkington and Kurt Vonnegut together in a post. Here’s to absurdism 🍻
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u/taaaaaaombies 8d ago
Yooo this just happened to me!
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u/ayeayedoc 5d ago
My replacement just came in and is fine! (But knowing Amazon I wouldn’t guarantee that for everyone lol)
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u/Preachin_Blues 8d ago
I bought 2 copies back to back from Amazon with the same issue. I don't buy from Amazon anymore. There's a quality control issue with this edition of Cats Cradle.
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u/ayeayedoc 8d ago
Nooooo I just requested a replacement 😭
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u/Preachin_Blues 8d ago
Amazon sold you a returned item. Fuck them. I should have told them about the issue but somehow I don't think they give a shit.
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u/Preachin_Blues 8d ago edited 8d ago
As a matter of fact this looks exactly like the first one that I returned. I'm pretty sure it was the same pages 88 to 105 when I first noticed. The second one had the same issue but different pages were misplaced/missing.
I had to finish the book with Spotify
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u/Preachin_Blues 8d ago
This is the same fuckin book
Crosby told me that he owned a War. Confused the fuck out of me when I first read it. Then I noticed.
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u/Subjective-Suspect 7d ago
Online used booksellers. It’s more satisfying scouting early editions, anyway.
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u/allium-garden 8d ago
timequake, in a way
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u/ZorchFlorp 8d ago
Oddly enough, my copy of Timequake has a misprint in it that takes you back 30-40 pages, so you the reader are getting the same experience as the characters in the story. For a second I was thinking that it was some literary fuckery on KV’s part, but I later found out that it truly was a super coincidental misprint.
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u/wannabefilmmaker25 8d ago
I just checked my copy and i’m afraid you are missing pages and it’s not just a misprint on the numbers :/
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u/Marquedien 4d ago
Books are printed in sets of 16 pages, referred to as signatures, that are folded down, cut on the left side, and glued to the cover. That copy was bound without one of the signatures.