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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.jenny13d 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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Oh man, that's like buying a hot dog and just getting the bun. What a rip-off!
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