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Originally Posted by issybird
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.
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Absolutely. The books were dumbed down. The page count was cut; the books were forced into a straitjacket of 180 pages, 20 chapters each; the character development was lost. Some titles were completely rewritten--e.g.,
The Secret at Shadow Ranch (which in the rewritten version is
The Secret of Shadow Ranch). Nancy goes from a rule-breaking and independent rebel to a respectful do-gooder.
I read only a few Nancys as a child; some of them were revisions and some originals, though I did not know that at the time. When I looked at them again as an adult, the ones I remember enjoying all turned out to be originals. (
The Clue in the Jewel Box was my favorite!)