Well, there's nothing wrong with resenting an author for personal reasons. :D Art is meant to be subjective. Thanks for the answer anyway. I didn't read The Game yet; I belive the last book about...
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Well, there's nothing wrong with resenting an author for personal reasons. :D Art is meant to be subjective. Thanks for the answer anyway. I didn't read The Game yet; I belive the last book about...
But isn't that exactly the point? Isn't that what we truly are in the end, animals with funny ideas about ourselves? And isn't precisely this desire to reach a certain level of refinment beyond the...
Maybe it's you who should re-read it... Nabokov does appeal to raw human nature in order to build his characters. Actually that comment comes really close to describing why I really appreciate him,...
Look Dark, I just don't think anyone should have the right to tamper with the author's final work. Allowing that implies someone can claim the abridged version is more appropriate in certain...
How ideed...?
You apparently think small scale censorship is good... that it's justified for some people to read an "abridged" version instead of the original. But you oppose Censorship when done...
That's hypocrisy. If you can justify one kind of censorship, you can justify any, given the right circumstances.
Not to mention that the entire concept of "rewriting and changing books for young...
The people responsible should be forced to give refunds and remove the edition from existence by eating each and every copy.
On a more serious note, how much faith can you put in the notes from a...