[stylist] Discrepancies in novels

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

There's a book series about a medical examiner who helps solve crimes.
The main character is Kay Scarpetta. The author, Patricia Cornwall or
something like that, has intentional discrepancies throughout the
series. In each book, details from past books would change including
ages of characters and details about their lives and the crimes that
happened. I'm not sure why she has done this, and though my husband and
I initially enjoyed reading them, the constant changing of details was
distracting to the reading process.

Bridgit
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:36:20 -0500
From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
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Subject: Re: [stylist] Discrepancies in Harry Potter
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Many books somehow get past the editors with glaring discrepancies.
Once I 
was reading a book where a brunette all of a sudden had black hair.  I
may 
not catch grammatical errors, but inconsistent details don't usually get

past me and I find them so annoying that I have to stop reading till I
get 
my brain past the irritation.
Barbara