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Curmudgeoness

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30. Actually, the parts left out were for another reason.

Thu Jul 26, 2012, 05:29 PM

Jul 2012

There is a preface to the uncut version where King explains that the publishers did a mathematical formula to determine how many pages he could have to keep the cost of the book where they wanted it. They asked if he wanted to do the cuts or should they. He chose to do it himself but still felt that it left some characters more shallow than he had wanted. He did say that there was one part that he did leave out of this version too because it did seem to go on too long.

So you can see that I visited the library and got the uncut version today.

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Are you reading the uncut version? AngryOldDem Jul 2012 #22

Sadly, no. Curmudgeoness Jul 2012 #26

Actually, I enjoyed the first version better. AngryOldDem Jul 2012 #27

Thanks for the info... mvccd1000 Jul 2012 #28

Actually, the parts left out were for another reason. Curmudgeoness Jul 2012 #30

Correct. AngryOldDem Jul 2012 #35

I won't give up my original copy, but Curmudgeoness Jul 2012 #36

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