On Thu, 8 May 2008 18:26:03 +0000 (UTC), Rhiannon Miller
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>Gene<gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Rhiannon Miller <rhi@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> I read Raymond Feist's Magician first
>>> in the revised version and wondered what all the fuss
>>> was about until I read the original version
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>> Geez, what did he do to ruin it?
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>He added 20,000 extra words, apparently, which his editor
>had insisted be cut from the original. I
That is not what happened with Kerr's DARKSPELL. She did some
rewriting along the lines of tightening things up - removing a
prologue that didn't do much, that sort of editing, and gave a villain
the ending she'd wanted to give him originally but the editor (Lester
Del Ray, IIRC) insisted she off him.
I once read both editions back to back. The revised did not strike me
as suffering from bloat or anything, like the Feist probably did.
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Elaine Thompson <Elaine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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