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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
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The post I quoted and replied to had you saying, and I paraphrase what I got out of it is this: most old books stay as they been published, maybe minor fixes related to misspelling or changed spelling over time, but some of the variety that get bad press from overreach are few. I am not a mind reader, so you can have meant that the bad press is justified, or that describing it as overreach is wrong.
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From this thread alone:
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I don't think bowdlerization is a good thing. These books are classics.
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I really disliked Lucas' tinkering with the Star Wars movies and do dislike the bowdlerizing of the Dahl books.
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...I will do is continue to remember that some books were written at different times by people who thought differently than I did and while words will never hurt me, if I am bothered I can always read something else instead of demanding a book be rewritten to meet my impossibly high standards.
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Authors should write what they want to write...
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Honestly, most old books that remain in print are not edited. Which is why it makes headlines when greedy rightsholders don't fully understand what they have and decide to edit them.
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And, from my response
to you in the
other thread:
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Not to mention that the rewriting (which, to be clear, I do disagree with) is being done by the rights holders...
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You don't need to be Miss Cleo to see what I am saying.