This Is Not A Review Of Thomas Bernhard’s The Lime Works

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1. I enjoyed this video immensely, and his point (that the machine is broken) is well put. However, though I hesitate to appear to be without humor, or even Amazon’s champion (god forbid!), as an employee of a book publisher (albeit one much smaller than the Vintage/Random House/Penguin machine–though I have proudly helped produce a book or two that have recently been discussed on this very site) I feel the need to point out that the trigger for this video (i.e., the misprinted book), unless Vintage’s method of printing their books is radically different from the rest of the publishing industry (certainly a possibility, though unlikely), is entirely the fault of Vintage’s printer. This kind of thing, and other printer errors like it, happens more often that one might guess, and is certainly not the kind of thing that a publisher, to say nothing of a retailer (which includes the average “local bookshop” as well as Amazon), could possibly know about until the end user discovers it and complains about it. Perhaps I’m taking the video too literally, with not enough tongue in cheek, but as someone who’s been on the receiving end of an irate customer’s (or, more often, an irate author’s) tirade, I felt compelled to point out what is perhaps already more obvious to everyone else than I am aware.

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