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Originally Posted by Catlady
Wondering if you read the same version of Nancy Drew both when you were a child and when you were an adult. The originals from the thirties are great fun; the revisions from the late fifties and sixties, not so much. The sanitizing of the stories to eliminate racism and class distinctions was so heavy-handed that it sucked out all the flavor and charm--Nancy became a much less interesting character, as did the people around her.
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And that's not all they did. The books were made shorter and the sentence structure and vocabulary were made simpler. The books were eviscerated and are unreadable in the later version, IMO. Unfortunately, the ebooks are the "new" version.