Roald Dahl

[alfinyalcabo]

The snowflakes are re-writing his books to appease the woke culture. FFS whatever next ..
Seems like a ploy by the publishers to me to make more money. Phookin ridiculous IMO.

[Norder]

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they read their suppressed print.....then go relax with a video game.






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" theres no earthly way of knowing, which direction we are going... "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB401RfGMlM

[kritichris]

They tried it with Enid Blyton's books a few years ago but it backfired when sales dropped.

[sinkov]

Nothing surprises me any more, but how is this allowed to happen ? If I go into a bookshop and buy a book by Dahl, isn't that what I should get ? If it turns out that some of it has been written by a publishing company jobsworth, shouldn't I be able to sue them under the Trades Descriptions Act ? After all, if I went to my local Porsche dealer and bought a brand new 911, only to find out when I got it home it had a Ford Focus engine......well it wouldn't happen would it, surely with any purchase you're legally entitled to get what it says on the tin, so why not with a book ?

I have no idea, just another day in the lunatic asylum.

[outwoodclaret]

Nothing surprises me any more, but how is this allowed to happen ? If I go into a bookshop and buy a book by Dahl, isn't that what I should get ? If it turns out that some of it has been written by a publishing company jobsworth, shouldn't I be able to sue them under the Trades Descriptions Act ? After all, if I went to my local Porsche dealer and bought a brand new 911, only to find out when I got it home it had a Ford Focus engine......well it wouldn't happen would it, surely with any purchase you're legally entitled to get what it says on the tin, so why not with a book ?

I have no idea, just another day in the lunatic asylum.

I posted this on another thread sinkov.

“We were obviously working on posts at the same time. I trawled back to the old cancel culture thread and just as I put up the post yours appeared too. Wokes deserve both barrels anyway. You cannot, cannot rewrite an author’s words.”

What they are doing with Dahl’s work is misrepresentation.

[Swissclaret]

In a world where MP’s can declare that a woman can have a p*nis, anything is possible.

Hopefully people will vote with their cash and refuse to buy this rubbish.

[kritichris]

A playwrite went into a pub, the landlord said "Shakespeare, you're bard."

[The Bedlington Terrier]

The books of this ilk were written for a different period in time. If I gave my grandkids "Five go off to Kirrin Island" they'd tell me not to be so ridiculous. Why try to airbrush history?

[sinkov]

If the publisher's don't like what Dahl writes, then instead of censoring/re-writing him, withdraw his books, don't sell them at all, problem solved. But they won't do that, that will cost them money. So they don't like what he writes but they'll take the money it can bring them in. There must be a word to describe this sort of faux morality but I can't think what it is.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

If the publisher's don't like what Dahl writes, then instead of censoring/re-writing him, withdraw his books, don't sell them at all, problem solved. But they won't do that, that will cost them money. So they don't like what he writes but they'll take the money it can bring them in. There must be a word to describe this sort of faux morality but I can't think what it is.

It's bonkers gone bonkers mon ami, there is an historical context to maintain and preserve in these quite classic texts which were written to mirror the mood of the day. FFS!