Comments on: Condensed Classic Literature http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature A Site About Everything and Nothing Thu, 17 May 2012 21:13:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Condensed Classic Literature by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature#comment-16661 Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:10:29 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature#comment-16661 LB, thanks for the comment and welcome to the site - hope you'll return. There's something in what you say, it does allow you to get through more books in fact I'll be brutally honest . . . When it comes to many of the early classics by the likes of Dickens etc then an abbridged version would probably be better ! Best wishes Rod LB,
thanks for the comment and welcome to the site - hope you’ll return.
There’s something in what you say, it does allow you to get through more books in fact I’ll be brutally honest . . .
When it comes to many of the early classics by the likes of Dickens etc then an abbridged version would probably be better !
Best wishes
Rod

]]> Comment on Condensed Classic Literature by: looking back http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature#comment-16657 Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:11:01 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature#comment-16657 I have found myself interested in reading some of the literature I was required to read in college - and didn't. nSomewhat of a regret - yet i was just not in a literary mode ( for lack of a better description ) and would like to go back and read some of those books now - if I have to read the original text I will definitely not make it - or at best maybe read one. If however there werem condensed editions that would suit me fine. I could envision myself reading at least several of the books depending on how long they were. I would like to see them roughly cut in half and slightly larger type than the original versions. I think that there is reason to leave some portions of the books intact and then summerizing portions that are less significant - for example - a portions of a book - example - During the next 28 pages Sarah went about her daily duties as has been described earlier in the book - the only significant happening was when a lost traveler accidently stopped by her house - he was lost - we continue as he knocks on Sarah's door - mid morning - while she is doing a neighbor's laundry which she does to help make ends meet. I have found myself interested in reading some of the literature I was required to read in college - and didn’t. nSomewhat of a regret - yet i was just not in a literary mode ( for lack of a better description ) and would like to go back and read some of those books now - if I have to read the original text I will definitely not make it - or at best maybe read one. If however there werem condensed editions that would suit me fine. I could envision myself reading at least several of the books depending on how long they were. I would like to see them roughly cut in half and slightly larger type than the original versions. I think that there is reason to leave some portions of the books intact and then summerizing portions that are less significant - for example - a portions of a book - example -

During the next 28 pages Sarah went about her daily duties as has been described earlier in the book - the only significant happening was when a lost traveler accidently stopped by her house - he was lost - we continue as he knocks on Sarah’s door - mid morning - while she is doing a neighbor’s laundry which she does to help make ends meet.

]]> Comment on Condensed Classic Literature by: Rod http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature#comment-3551 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:48:39 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature#comment-3551 Dino you raise some interesting and important points. I would hope that the editing would be limited strictly to cutting out extraneous matter. I should not want to see anything actually 'rewritten' as it were. Certainly nothing should be updated, especially in the name of bloody political correctness ! Dino
you raise some interesting and important points.
I would hope that the editing would be limited strictly to cutting out extraneous matter. I should not want to see anything actually ‘rewritten’ as it were.

Certainly nothing should be updated, especially in the name of bloody political correctness !

]]> Comment on Condensed Classic Literature by: the dinosaur http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature#comment-3546 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:10:05 +0000 http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/condensed-classic-literature#comment-3546 I agree that many great works of literature written for previous generations are not palatable to the modern reader and it is a shame if that means they are getting neglected and forgotten, so perhaps a condensed version has a chance of success- however I foresee a danger! In the process of editing there will be a temptation to impose modern interpretation and political correctness, I hate to see history being rewritten as it often is in the present times, it would be shameful for the great voices of the past who talk to us through books to be misquoted too. Whoever edits the book should put their name to it and accept the responsability, the edited version must never be used educationally either or it will overshadow the original in the future. I agree that many great works of literature written for previous generations are not palatable to the modern reader and it is a shame if that means they are getting neglected and forgotten, so perhaps a condensed version has a chance of success- however I foresee a danger! In the process of editing there will be a temptation to impose modern interpretation and political correctness, I hate to see history being rewritten as it often is in the present times, it would be shameful for the great voices of the past who talk to us through books to be misquoted too. Whoever edits the book should put their name to it and accept the responsability, the edited version must never be used educationally either or it will overshadow the original in the future.

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