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Originally Posted by issybird
I'm late, but I want to talk about the slippery slope in the Trixie Belden context.
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My point is that words and situations are an integral part of a book's structure. Once you start tinkering, you create an avalanche of necessary changes to remain coherent and cohesive and it's never entirely successful.
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I read only a few Trixies, but I have read Nancy Drew in both the original and the modernized, sanitized versions. The stereotyping and racism were removed in the great purge, but so were the liveliness, the recklessness, and the excitement, not to mention Nancy's sense of entitlement and utter disregard for the rights of suspected wrongdoers. Of course, Nancy was a Stratemeyer Syndicate creation and they could do what they wanted with their product, but there is not one volume that was improved in the updating.