James Bond Books Edited To Avoid Offense To Modern Audiences – Report
Ian Fleming's James Bond series is being altered in advance of the 70th anniversary of their original publication
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.”
Also if you are that sensitive that you can't handle a James Bond book [I've read them] then the problem is with you and not the books.
What's next, removing any references to the holocaust in Anne Frank's diary. Just a chick who loves attics bah.
Also if you are that sensitive that you can't handle a James Bond book [I've read them] then the problem is with you and not the books.
What's next, removing any references to the holocaust in Anne Frank's diary. Just a chick who loves attics bah.
I'll never understand this. There ok with the violence, murder and maiming in these books, but a few bad words that might offend some people and this is where we draw the line?
Whoopi Goldberg slams re-editing books to avoid offending modern audiences: 'Ya'll have got to stop this'
Whoopi Goldberg came out against the re-editing of classic books to avoid offending modern audiences during "The View" and argued it was "how kids learn."
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It's not as though the Bond books are anything other than trash to begin with. I read them back when they were actually new and best sellers and they were shit then. The movie franchise gave the books an undue extended life of fame. The books themselves are he-man adventure pulp. Most of Fleming's contempories in the genre didn't sell as well and certainly didn't get the movie deals and are long forgotten with other worthless pulp books.
Censorship, what a load of horse shit. Leave the books, all books as originally written by the author. If the language, content etc. bothers you, do not read the book. Its is as simple as that.
I was happy to see the black spots vanish from my beat mags when I was younger LOL..until then I thought pussies where deep dark black holes
I was happy to see the black spots vanish from my beat mags when I was younger LOL..until then I thought pussies where deep dark black holes
Quite the times that we live in....
Nothing has changed after watching those tweets. She's still a bigot.
I wonder if we have ever had a country/society who started banning books, names, etc.? I am curious to see if everything turned out well.
I’ve read five of Ian Flemings James Bond books, there ok but I’m a big fan…the movies are way better.
Ok, but all books are not equal. Betcha there were 100's of pulp detective novels published in the 1920's that used the n-word in its most derogative sense and portrayed women as simpering, fainting, brainless playthings. They also said stuff about Jews and Asians that would be unheard of today - or 30 years ago. These have no redeeming intellectual or artistic value. They're probably all 80 years out of print and got recycled for papier mache around 1940.
You might make a case that shit Hemingway wrote about Blacks and Jews should stay in because he actually wrote books with some enduring value and they should be read as originally written. Ditto Fitzgerald or Lawrence.
James Bond beefcake "gunplay and fucking" books aren't Hemingway. Sorry you had to hear it from me. They're 1960's genre crap. The only thing Fleming had going for him is that he sold the movie rights and the crappy books got transformed into a movie franchise.
Why are explicit pornographic books, allowed in public school libraries? Seems hypocritical to me??
I can't find the right word now but I think that re-writing books, tearing down statutes of bad people etc does a disservice to the future of our civilization. We need to have these examples of where and how society used to be to see how we are progressing.
Just my opinion.
Just my opinion.
So you never saw James Bond in a theatre, rented it on VHS or DVD or whatever medium, because you thought they were "racist and crude"?[/QUOTE]
It will all be captured in history and immortalized on the internet though. Including the tearing down of statues and why they were done with video evidence of protests etc.,
So, a drawing of 2 guys in bed together is "porn"?
That's what you actually believe?
