The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMerr

[Splync]

I'm working my way through this book now. Am about halfway through the book. It has been years since I first read these books; so, I'm not positive; however, I am not noticing any sort of changes or updates by the author. Once thing I have noticed which is bugging the hell out of me is that whoever proofread this book left a very obvious misspelling. Every time it is supposed to say "Cypress Trees", it instead says "Cypress Knees". I have noticed this error many times so far leading me to believe they used a program to proofread instead of an actual person as this feels like an "auto-correct" mistake. Cannot believe this was missed as trees is a pretty common word in this book. Just one more thing for me to be annoyed about in regards to this edition.

Maybe the author really wanted to update the text to say Cypress Knees. Anything can happen in Area X, right?!

At least that's what I'm holding onto... :-/

[sholloman81]

Maybe the author really wanted to update the text to say Cypress Knees. Anything can happen in Area X, right?!

At least that's what I'm holding onto... :-/

That's really funny!

[DanFranklin]

Cypress knees is actually correct! Lol. Threw me for a loop too, but it's the intended terminology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_knee

[sholloman81]

Cypress knees is actually correct! Lol. Threw me for a loop too, but it's the intended terminology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_knee

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You rock Dan! Felt like a complete misspelling. Shows how dumb I am!!! Thanks for this post!

[Sock Monkey]

Holy biscuits! I just received the "Have you moved" email stating that the Southern Reach lettered will be shipping in the next month! After 6 (!) years, it may actually be happening! Looking forward to this!

[sholloman81]

Holy biscuits! I just received the "Have you moved" email stating that the Southern Reach lettered will be shipping in the next month! After 6 (!) years, it may actually be happening! Looking forward to this!

Congrats! Always nice to cross-off those extra-old pre-orders! I hope that it ended up much nicer than the LE as that book is still very much a sore spot for me.

[Sock Monkey]

Congrats! Always nice to cross-off those extra-old pre-orders! I hope that it ended up much nicer than the LE as that book is still very much a sore spot for me.

I am trying to hold out a little bit of hope that the lettered will be worth the added wait and cost. At $500, it's a pretty pricey lettered for Cemetery Dance, especially in the context of the lettered edition of Usher's Passing was offered six months later at half the cost of Southern Reach. I guess we'll see in about 4-6 weeks!

[Sock Monkey]

Got my shipping notice today!

[Sock Monkey]

Got the lettered and just posted pictures and thoughts in the "Latest Purchase" thread!