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My $25 'banned book' turned out to be a censored copy
I bought a vintage copy of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' online for twenty-five bucks, excited to finally read the 'scandalous' version. When it arrived, I realized it was a 1960s reprint from a country that had cut out all the, you know, good parts (the pages were literally glued together in sections). So I paid for a famous banned book and got a heavily edited one instead, which feels like a weird joke. Has anyone else accidentally bought a censored version of something thinking it was the real deal?
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jackson.jenny6mo ago
That "hot dog and just getting the bun" line is perfect. It reminds me of when I bought a used DVD of that old comedy, Superbad. The case looked normal, but someone had swapped the disc with a TV edit version from like, basic cable. All the best jokes were just gone, replaced with these weird silences or dumb clean lines. Totally ruined the movie night.
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lopez.brooke5mo ago
Honestly that TV edit might have been an upgrade. Some of those Superbad jokes are just gross and not even funny. The clean version probably made the story flow better without all the dumb shock humor.
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