Thursday, June 10, 2010

More on The Anthropology

OMFG!
I am horrified by the "edited" version of The Anthropology of An American Girl.

I just got the new copy from Amazon and it is totally messed up. The paragraphs have all been rearranged to try and make all the distinct thoughts into distinct paragraphs. Conversations are created out of thoughts and recollections of conversations, song lyrics are completely removed, and some of her most subtle and ,to an editor, unnecessary, metaphors have been REMOVED! Oh the horror!

What has an editor done to this book? Would Tropic Of Cancer have been anywhere near the masterpiece it is if is had been 'fixed' by a modern-day editor?

I am going to have to keep the library book so that I can read the book the way it was intended to be read by the author when she self-published it. I mean I understand she's looking for a wider audience for her book and she definitely deserves it, but I much prefer the OG version.

I am freaking going to have to steal this one from the Flagstaff Public Library or else pony up the $150 for the real version of the book.

I am going to also have to look up and see what Ms. Hilary Thayer Hamann has to say about this new version of her book. How could she have agreed to the rewrite?

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