Sherlock Holmes Was: [Re: [Sca-cooks] OT: Harry Potter]

[Terry Decker]

Dumas has the same problem.  Most American editions abridge The Three
Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo.  I have an unabridged edition of
the latter from my grandmother's library, 1100+ pages of very fine print.
Compared to the intracacies of the unabridged version, the abridged versions
read like a plot outline of a high school paper.

Bear


>And they wonder why there's so little interest in reading... This is by no
>means new BTW... I was an adult (Well, seventeen) before I found out about
>Holmes' use of "The Seven Percent Solution", his firing his pistol in his
>rooms, and things like that, and I'm in my mid forties. Since then I've
gone
>back and read a LOT of things I read as a child, but in the unabridged
>versions. Good reason to avoid booksales at children's libraries IMO...
>unless you're looking specifically for kids books, and I mean Doctor Suess.
>
>Corwyn