Errors in Desperation
- The "Eat Em and Smile" album is said to be a Van Halen album, when it in fact is a David Lee Roth album, produced shortly after he left the group.
- In Part I: Chapter 1, subchapter 2 in the book Mary Jackson's hair is described as being short. But throughout the rest of the book it is described as being long.
- In Part I: Chapter 5, subchapter 2 where David visits Brian at the hospital he notices that Brian lies with his eyes open. But later when Brian's mother phones him to tell him that Brian is awake, it sounds as if it is a sensation, that Brian has opened his eyes. Brian's mother is confused by this and so is Brian's doctor Dr. Waslewski, when he sees Brian open his eyes.
- In Part II: Chapter 3, subchapter 5 it says that one of the Kamikaze-vultures shattered the passenger window in the truck, so it became milky. But in Part II: Chapter 4, subchapter 2 Steve looks out through that same window when he tries to find a place to park the truck. Later in Part V: Chapter1, subchapter 1 it says that Steve looked into the mirror outside the passenger window, which would be impossible.
- Stephen King seems to be unable to keep track of how many people he has brought together in the old cinema. Although there are eight people in the cinema, he continues to write that there are only seven.
- Mary Jackson complained that she had to 'go pee', but when quizzed by Tom Billingsley, she replied that it was OK, she had good kidneys. Most people know that urine is stored in the BLADDER and that kidneys produce the urine, not STORE it.
- On page 150, Part 1, Chapter 5, Subchapter 3: "... had he ever smoked pot, had he ever in his life converted the six-ten split..." That last part of the sentence about the six-ten split looks like a bowling reference. If it is, then it is a mistake. The six and ten pins, when positioned properly on the pin deck, are situated close together, and are not considered a split, but a rather easy spare. I believe that King was refering to the seven-ten split, which is the most difficult in bowling. (Error found by Jeff D. Thanks)
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