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Fuck up a book for me please
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this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2024
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Could you maybe give some links for the ones who didn't get what you're writing about, like I did?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/books/roald-dahl-books-changes.html
https://bookriot.com/roald-dahl-books-sanitized/
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/roald-dahl-publisher-release-original-versions-after-backlash-2023-02-24/
Yeah, those edits were idiotic, all right, thanks for sharing
But I was more keen to see who celebrated those. Although, I am sure such people probably exist not only in the Dahl Estate
It was possibly on Reddit, but you can imagine the rhetoric. I actually do think it was on Lemmy. I believe I said that the Oompa-Loompas being literal African Pygmies was a bit much, and could remember feeling that way even as a young child. I think even Mr Dahl himself might have come to the same conclusion in later life.
This is okay for people to change their views, I think it's better to add author's or editor's commentary in such a case, not censor the shit out of the book