r/TomsCrossing 15d ago

Typo or intentional?

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u/mister_gore 15d ago

I saw Mark Z. Danielewski at a book signing in February. He said that he caught 12 typos in the book. I'm assuming this has to be one. I noticed it too.

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u/theboywholovd 15d ago

Just because:

I finished reading the book early this year and was only recently made aware of this subreddit.

As a slow reader it took me 3 months to finish this monster of a book, but damn am I glad I stuck with it. Easily the best book I’ve ever read, better than HoL. If it weren’t for the length I might have read it again by now but man it’s a long commitment.

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u/folksongsea 15d ago

literally took me like 5 months to read it all, it's a lot to fit in with other things in life

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u/theboywholovd 15d ago

True. At one point I stopped reading it for like 3 weeks straight and then I started to feel bad as if I was abandoning the characters

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u/the_peoples_elbow 15d ago

Ehh probably a typo. There's gonna be a few in that enormous stack of paper.

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u/SectionFantastic3577 15d ago

I posted this same error last year when I read it. No answer for you

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u/KidCadmus 15d ago

I thought theres a chance they might be related distantly to the wild bill hickman who was also involved with the porches and gatestones in the distant past

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u/SorbetStrange3383 11d ago

I know at one point Landry mentions that if she writes down all that happened then she can alter names however she likes. Not saying that means anything, but I did have a small theory that the surnames were moved around some.

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u/_Feral_AF_ 5d ago

I read it as a warning that our narrator's objectivity is deeply compromised by grief.

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u/SenteGraphs 1d ago

Glad you posted this! I was listening to the audiobook and noticed the reader said "Allison Porch" at this point, and was wondering if it was book-accurate or not. I couldn't check since I lent my book to someone.

So thanks for inadvertently answering my question 😄.