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any rewrite of Sherlock Holmes to give him and Watson cell phones isn't Holmes, it's a Holmes pastiche. There is, in fact, a huge number of very good (and some bad) Holmes pastiches as it's own literary genre.
I feel the same about writing out objectionable parts of other literature: it stops being the author's work and becomes a pastiche, and ought to be labeled as such.
If Muckraker is indeed clearly labeling his edited versions, and documenting the edits he makes, that is a good thing. I probably wouldn't buy them anyway, because I'm like that.
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