Abridged Books Protest Thread

[Jordan]

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I loathe, despise and abominate abridged books!!! P’raps we should begin a cyberized protest rally: Down with abridged books and back-cover spoilers!

So, what do you think? Shall we all collaborate on a protest?

Rules I can think of…

1. Keep it tongue in cheek, but serious at the same time. (This ought to be fun!)
2. Write with as much legal-ese (or what sounds like it) as you can muster.

Let’s see what we can come up with!

[Pip]

Sounds glorious. Let us begin!

The only thing good about the abridged version of The Prince and the Pauper is that it has a picture of the guy-who-wears-weird-clothing getting whipped. Despite that, we eventually got rid of the floppy little paperback.

[Alassiel]

I don’t mind some abridged books that much. For example, I have a friend who isn’t a very good reader, so I doubt she will ever read many wonderful classics (like Dickens, LotR, etc.) It would be a shame though for her to miss out on an amazing story simply because the language and style of the book is too hard. It would be nice if there were good abridged books that kept some of the style and flavor of the original.

That being said, I have never found an abridged book that I personally have enjoyed. Most of them are just written in such boring, awful writing. I wish someone would write some good abridged books if they are going to write them at all.

(I’ll post a rant about revealing back cover descriptions later!)

[Pip]

You said it, Alassiel!

What sorta back-cover spoilers have y’all encountered?

[Author]

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