Book Blunders

Posted on Mar 31, 2010 in the Blogs category.

Book Blunders

Anyone could make these mistakes. Publishers have even spelled titles and authors two different ways on their covers sometimes. On one book by David Hagberg, the spine read, “Habgerg”. In all the known documents where Shakespeare signed his own name, he spelled it differently on each one. So who’s to judge really?

One of my favorites was from a man who said, “My Daughter needs this book for school, ‘The Hound of Basket Case’ by Conan … Somebody.”

Recently a young lady asked for,”…novels by Nicholas Cage”. Turned out she meant Nicholas Sparks but I had a lot of fun imagining what novels by Nicholas Cage might be like. “Chapter 36: After stuffing the Declaration of Independence into a dead iguana, and hiding it down a hollow tree, I ran off on my trusted hang glider which I decided to name after my first wife Ekaterina…”

A nice older woman asked for books by, “Linda Lovelace” She meant Merline Lovelace. Linda Lovelace was notable as the Watergate insider who secretly fed info to the press – or, was that Mark Felt? Never mind, I don’t know who Linda Lovelace was…

So what’s your favorite Book Blunder??

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