--- On Mon, 8/11/08, BookBitch <BookBitch@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On the other hand, I think it really unfair to listen to an
> abridged version of any book and then complain about the
> plot, the characters, or anything else that doesn't feel
> quite right. Most abridged audiobooks have big enough
> holes that you can drive a truck through them. It really
> is doing the author - who has no control over the process,
> may I add, (unless the author's name is JK Rowling) a
> disservice.
>
Interesting, Stacy. I wonder who makes the decisions where to abridge the storyline. The audiobook companies must use their own editors, but it'd be a tough call to know what stays, and what goes. Kind of like the Readers' Digest Condensed Books (are those titles still around?).
Ed
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