In a new edition of the 1964 Miss Marple novel A Caribbean Mystery, the amateur detective’s musing that a West Indian hotel worker smiling at her has “such lovely white teeth” has been removed, with similar references to “beautiful teeth” also taken out.
The same book described a prominent female character as having “a torso of black marble such as a sculptor would have enjoyed”, a description absent from the edited version.
Jesus you can't even DESCRIBE black people apparently. That's ridiculous.
That article says they started doing this in 2020, better get older copies.
They know people don't want this shit, that's why they hide it when they're doing it. I wonder how many other books we will find out have been stealth edited.
At least that one is an outright "you cannot use that word at all" censor. I don't agree with the bullshit around it, but it makes sense from the angle of society itself banning use of that word (sometimes kinda whenever they feel like it).
The rest of these are just made up sensibilities that no one would even think to remove until they did it.
Authors need to put clauses in their wills and contracts to either prevent this or enact a poison pill where the original works go into the public domain (companies and heirs lose their rights).
Jesus you can't even DESCRIBE black people apparently. That's ridiculous.
The free world.
Where are the african ceos? I was promised diversity by these publishers, they owe us african ceos!
African CEOs would unironically do a better job.
SJW: Mr. CEO, I'm offended by some passages we're publishing.
CEO: Don't be silly.
SJW: But I'm offended!
CEO: NO SILLY!
A good time to get the originals. I'm not that much of a fan of Ms. Marple but I'll have to get the series now.
That article says they started doing this in 2020, better get older copies.
They know people don't want this shit, that's why they hide it when they're doing it. I wonder how many other books we will find out have been stealth edited.
They got to Ten Little Niggers long before that. Though I think she was still alive and approved that.
At least that one is an outright "you cannot use that word at all" censor. I don't agree with the bullshit around it, but it makes sense from the angle of society itself banning use of that word (sometimes kinda whenever they feel like it).
The rest of these are just made up sensibilities that no one would even think to remove until they did it.
Oh I thought that original title wars ten little Indians because of the song
When I first read it, it was called "And Then There Were None." Two rounds of PC treadmilling.
The book I have is And Then There Were None
Ha! I just remember them reciting that song in the old movie. Then I found the book at a yard sale. She is an all time great with murder mystery.
It’ll be amusing when Orwell, Huxley and Kafka come under the gaze of the censors…
At that point, we’ve reached post irony post truth…
I’m sure they each imagined that might happen - we’ve just sleepwalked into a weird combination-dystopia that takes elements from each of them…
The people doing this shit would be fedposted if there were any justice in this world.
The people doing this are doing it in the hopes that responses like this will help get the product they’re selling in to the news cycle.
I could be eloquent but instead I am choosing to be blunt:
These people will not stop until they are physically forced to stop. If nothing is done to halt this, our entire civilization will burn.
Authors need to put clauses in their wills and contracts to either prevent this or enact a poison pill where the original works go into the public domain (companies and heirs lose their rights).
If prenups don't work, neither will those.
Thankfully I have some of her books from years prior
I have some of them as well but I'm still missing lots of them.
needs to be the other way around
The destruction of literature is not something to be celebrated you absolute fucking psychopath.
Ah yes, 'No bad tactics, only targets'. Book "burning" or destruction by other means is fine if you get to stick it to the
libswxmynz.