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Originally Posted by tompe
Scam? It is very good re-mixing. And an example of what we could have much more of if copyright did not hinder the creative work to flow.
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You are right, "remix" is a much more polite word. I was making a value judgement which others may disagree with that, having read it as well as the original classic, the actual creative effort put into the zombie remix was minimal - a very casual and quick slapping in of the concept of zombies amongst the original text. And the truth is that I was excited about it when it first came out and thought there was lots of scope to really have fun with zombies in the book but that's not what I saw, all I saw was a very systematic search and replace at regular intervals with very few creative additions. That doesn't mean that I didn't think it wasn't a smart way to make a buck, quite the contrary, in that way I thought it was brilliant and ingenious but a talented literary effort? Not so much.
I take for example other "remixes" such as The Story of Edgar Sawtelle or A Thousand Acres - they took original works and reshaped them into other really excellent literary works with lots of original creative effort. The zombie/sea-monster/? series is a great marketing tool but not, in my opinion, great or even good literature (the original classic excepted of course).
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Mel