A culture critic has put publishers and film and TV studios on blast for not only using new prints of books to market bad TV and film adaptations, but marking them with “unremovable stamps.”This Substack is reader-supported.
If they altered the cover, BEWARE. The interior content is also up for the latest grab by fat blue-haired Wiccan cat ladies on a mission from Lucifer.
I recall the beginning of this in the 80s with Huckleberry Finn and Tom sawyer being retro-sanitized for the then "modern audience." Compare a 50 year old Finn novel to a modern one.
The Shannara Chronicles stamped Terry Brooks books were a good idea actually. It served as a clear warning of how low the book series was about to sink. It was a rare case where the terrible TV series would actually prove better than the author’s own destruction of his own series.
If they altered the cover, BEWARE. The interior content is also up for the latest grab by fat blue-haired Wiccan cat ladies on a mission from Lucifer.
I recall the beginning of this in the 80s with Huckleberry Finn and Tom sawyer being retro-sanitized for the then "modern audience." Compare a 50 year old Finn novel to a modern one.
The Shannara Chronicles stamped Terry Brooks books were a good idea actually. It served as a clear warning of how low the book series was about to sink. It was a rare case where the terrible TV series would actually prove better than the author’s own destruction of his own series.
100% agree.