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[gaming_again]

Yes, when this trend started I vowed to not spend another penny on a new book and only buy second hand. The publishing houses are traitors to the artform. I spend around £1,000 a year on books.

 

[jason10mm]

It’s a safe bet though that children will have zero chance of ever seeing the originals of any story that has fallen foul of the thought police. School libraries are not going to stock the ‘unabridged’ versions of classic texts; they are more likely to be stuffed with propagandistic books about families with two mummies and grandads going on Pride marches. I could go on about this, but the least problematic route is to get books that are ready-pasteurised.

Not sure if this was your quote directly but I do see some value in an age-appropriate abridged text of an otherwise adult literature work. For example, I had a lot of these as a kid that allowed me to crunch through a lot of the classics well before I was ready to tackle the "real" versions. Plus some of these are translations anyway that always have some changes based on the translator. It's the naked ideology that is the issue IMHO.

Great Illustrated Classics homepage - find the complete series here.

 

[Tams]

Tom Hanks weighing in on the issue:

With such bad behaviour in his novel, the actor-writer also believes it is unnecessary to airbrush classic books for modern audiences.

Novels by Ian Fleming and Agatha Christie have been updated, and Hanks's own publisher Penguin Random House has altered the work of Roald Dahl and PG Wodehouse as part of an effort to remove potentially offensive language.

"I'm of the opinion that we're all grown-ups here. Let's have faith in our own sensibilities as opposed to having somebody decide what we may or may not be offended by," insists Hanks.

"Let me decide what I am offended by and what I'm not offended by. I would be against reading any book from any era that says 'abridged due to modern sensitivities'."

Tom Hanks' debut novel lifts lid on movie industry, and his on-set behaviour

In his only UK interview, the star talks books, Hollywood egos and who should be the next James Bond.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Tams]

I hate vicarious offence.

Not to mention even further degradation of critical thinking.

 

[Spaceman292]

Tom Hanks weighing in on the issue:

http://[URL]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65404525

[/URL]

I love you mister hanks. Hanks a lot.

 

[DeafTourette]

Tom Hanks is correct.

 

[DeafTourette]

I thought you'd be against dystopian practices.

I am. But as said, this isn't new. But we have to stay vigilant on these things and not just when it aligns with our political leanings. Because this has happened before.

 

[IDKFA]

I am. But as said, this isn't new. But we have to stay vigilant on these things and not just when it aligns with our political leanings. Because this has happened before.

Can you provide some examples when this happened before?

 

[DeafTourette]

Can you provide some examples when this happened before?

Look up Bowdlerization...

 

[IDKFA]

Look up Bowdlerization...

Also known as expurgation. Yes. I'm aware of it.

Where is the line drawn? Because it's happened before should we just shrug when it happens now, no matter how insane the changes are?

 

[AJUMP23]

They need to update MEIN KAMPF next, more people need to read the struggles of an Austrian painter, but without all the negative racist stuff.

 

[DeafTourette]

Also known as expurgation. Yes. I'm aware of it.

Where is the line drawn? Because it's happened before should we just shrug when it happens now, no matter how insane the changes are?

No. We stay vigilant. We fight to make sure it doesn't happen again. *I* decide if I'm offended... Not the publisher, not some 3rd party .. DEFINITELY not the gubment!

It's one thing if the AUTHOR wants to change something but ... You know?

 

[IDKFA]

No. We stay vigilant. We fight to make sure it doesn't happen again. *I* decide if I'm offended... Not the publisher, not some 3rd party .. DEFINITELY not the gubment!

It's one thing if the AUTHOR wants to change something but ... You know?

Then we're in agreement.

 

[DeafTourette]

Then we're in agreement.

That's what the poster I quoted was trying to say.

 

[IDKFA]

That's what the poster I quoted was trying to say.

Ah. Apologies for any confusion. Glad we're on the same page (pun not intended)

 

[Fake]

Tom Hanks weighing in on the issue:

Tom Hanks' debut novel lifts lid on movie industry, and his on-set behaviour

In his only UK interview, the star talks books, Hollywood egos and who should be the next James Bond.

www.bbc.co.uk

Tom Hanks proving the guy rules.

 

[HoodWinked]

what if books that were revised have a version of this label but the opposite. where books that were revised for this reason were tagged that its for those with modern sensibilities.