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There's a snobbery here worth examining. An abridgement that gets someone through a book they'd otherwise never open — is that a loss or a win?
Doorstops
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Nishant Kumar
Started the club
Six hundred pages and up. Long books, shared stamina, and collective complaining. We read the ones you keep meaning to. This is a Chaptra house club — set up and moderated by us to get the conversation going. Open to everyone; jump in anywhere.
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Abridged editions: vandalism or mercy?
Started by Nishant Kumar 1 reply1 views
House view: mercy, with one condition — that it says so on the cover. The objection isn't to shortening a book, it's to someone believing they've read it when they've read something else.