Got this as a Christmas present and it is almost unreadable in parts. The book has been produced to a high quality and cost a good bit but seems like it's had no editing at all.
If anyone has read any of the other books from carpbooksonline I'd be interested to hear how well they read?
I'm not expecting fishermen to produce a chapter for a book with no errors in it but I would expect someone to edit it when the book cost £30.
The pictures are often in places that makes no sense at alll. Like giving you the photo of a fish two pages before it gets caught.
If anyone has read any of the other books from carpbooksonline I'd be interested to hear how well they read?
I'm not expecting fishermen to produce a chapter for a book with no errors in it but I would expect someone to edit it when the book cost £30.
The pictures are often in places that makes no sense at alll. Like giving you the photo of a fish two pages before it gets caught.
In reply to Post #1
The Big Carp Hunters and Legends series are the same. Interesting content but coherent they are not. Pictures of fish appear 3 or 4 pages before the story about them. It's not the author, I agree it is the editing, or apparent lack of. These are published under the Bountyhunter Publications banner but are also from Rob Maylins
The Big Carp Hunters and Legends series are the same. Interesting content but coherent they are not. Pictures of fish appear 3 or 4 pages before the story about them. It's not the author, I agree it is the editing, or apparent lack of. These are published under the Bountyhunter Publications banner but are also from Rob Maylins
In reply to Post #2
Thank you. I'll give them a wide berth then, I can't hack it
Thank you. I'll give them a wide berth then, I can't hack it
In reply to Post #2
i tried to read the 'legends' book by Pete Springate, I gave up, zero editing or proof reading, repeated pages, what a joke
i tried to read the 'legends' book by Pete Springate, I gave up, zero editing or proof reading, repeated pages, what a joke
In reply to Post #1
Doubt he has any friends.
Doubt he has any friends.
In reply to Post #1
That's because (allegedly) all the content has just been copied and pasted from other sources. Ask yourself how Rob has managed to pump out so many of these books (Urban Carping, River Carping, OTBT etc) in such quick succession....
That's because (allegedly) all the content has just been copied and pasted from other sources. Ask yourself how Rob has managed to pump out so many of these books (Urban Carping, River Carping, OTBT etc) in such quick succession....
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I read Pete Springate's Legends book but it was awful. I think it's the only fishing book I've ever thrown in the bin and that says something for a hoarder like me. It was just a transcript of conversations that was full of can't remembers and think so's. A lot of the photo's left a lot to be desired. That said, most professional anglers these days are essentially photo journalists and the output is of a high quality. To be fair to Pete, he was just a guy that worked and went fishing and writing articles or books wasn't really a thought at the time. I'm afraid Rob Maylin was just milking a market and it was just a money making exercise.
I read Pete Springate's Legends book but it was awful. I think it's the only fishing book I've ever thrown in the bin and that says something for a hoarder like me. It was just a transcript of conversations that was full of can't remembers and think so's. A lot of the photo's left a lot to be desired. That said, most professional anglers these days are essentially photo journalists and the output is of a high quality. To be fair to Pete, he was just a guy that worked and went fishing and writing articles or books wasn't really a thought at the time. I'm afraid Rob Maylin was just milking a market and it was just a money making exercise.
In reply to Post #7
Pete didn't contribute to that book or receive any money for it .
Pete didn't contribute to that book or receive any money for it .
In reply to Post #8
Either way, it read like a 5yr old wrote it with spelling to match. The lack of proof reading was very evident, the lack of spellchecker was very evident and the lack of any editing or production care was very evident
Either way, it read like a 5yr old wrote it with spelling to match. The lack of proof reading was very evident, the lack of spellchecker was very evident and the lack of any editing or production care was very evident
I've read some of Rob Maylins books in the long distant past, Basil's Bush etc and that was a good read.
I think that modern writers or compilers are trying to produce things compared to late and greats.
You have books, articles written by anglers like Rod Hutchinson, Chris Yates, Ken T, Bill Cottam and they draw you in.
Hutchy said himself he was an angler who writes, not a writer who fishes, Chris Yates is a poetic writer who fishes. The two styles may be at polar opposites, somebody who struggled to find the right words, compared to the right words playing across the page.
Tim Paisley, some of his books may be hard reading, but that was his thoughts on bait and rigs, not his session or capture writing.
Peter Springate, his Yeoveney section in Carp Fever on the 2 big fish was a good read, his Mary article in CarpWorld was a good read.
Everyone thinks that they can write, edit or proof read, the truth is that few can, and angling is a specialist market that very few big publishers care to go into, so that leaves anglers, and many of us can hardly string 2 words together without an f
I think that modern writers or compilers are trying to produce things compared to late and greats.
You have books, articles written by anglers like Rod Hutchinson, Chris Yates, Ken T, Bill Cottam and they draw you in.
Hutchy said himself he was an angler who writes, not a writer who fishes, Chris Yates is a poetic writer who fishes. The two styles may be at polar opposites, somebody who struggled to find the right words, compared to the right words playing across the page.
Tim Paisley, some of his books may be hard reading, but that was his thoughts on bait and rigs, not his session or capture writing.
Peter Springate, his Yeoveney section in Carp Fever on the 2 big fish was a good read, his Mary article in CarpWorld was a good read.
Everyone thinks that they can write, edit or proof read, the truth is that few can, and angling is a specialist market that very few big publishers care to go into, so that leaves anglers, and many of us can hardly string 2 words together without an f
In reply to Post #10
agree mate about the literacy and gramma amongst anglers, but that does not excuse the shoddy proof reading, layout and spelling in some books that anglers are supposed to put up with?
agree mate about the literacy and gramma amongst anglers, but that does not excuse the shoddy proof reading, layout and spelling in some books that anglers are supposed to put up with?