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Originally Posted by Xanthe
I got interested in the classics by reading Classics Illustrated comics, and if those weren't abridged versions then I don't know what is. 
I'm of the some-exposure-to-the-books-is-better-than-no-exposure school of thought, regarding children.
For adults, there's no worthy excuse for reading abridged versions, IMHO. |
I read my share of Classics Illustrated comics as well, and I had sharply abridged illustrated books of stories like
Black Beauty. But I consider those a totally different species. They're so blatantly different from the real thing.
I can remember how betrayed I felt when I found out that the copy of
Little Women I'd read and reread as a child was actually an abridgment.