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Originally Posted by Catlady
It's really simple. Leave the text alone to stand or fall on its merits. If it's a great book, it doesn't need the tinkering. If it's not, if the nonPC-ness and old-fashioned sensibilities are so overwhelming a burden, let it be consigned to the trash heap.
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I think we've hit the main point of disagreement. I don't agree that books should be dropped from consideration because they have a few details that make them unreadable to most readers--or a few details that make them offensive to the only people who care about the story enough to convert it.
If it's agreed that it's not a "great book," but a good book with a few problems, some people would rather it got polished than thrown out.