To think if you find a book this bad, best just not to read it?

[DemiColon]

I am just flummoxed by the changes Penguin publishing house have made to Roald Dhal's books.

I know not everyone likes them, and I really would very rarely change anything in a book, so that is my general approach, but I am shocked with what they have done with his stories:

"Mrs Twit’s “fearful ugliness” is cut to “ugliness”. The words “black” and “white” have been removed: characters no longer turn “white with fear” and the BFG cannot wear a black cloak.

The Cloud-Men in James and the Giant Peach have become Cloud-People. Matilda reads Jane Austen rather than Rudyard Kipling, and a witch posing as “a cashier in a supermarket” now works as “a top scientist”.

nationalpost.com/news/world/oompa-loompas-no-longer-tiny-sensitivity-readers-take-the-gnarl-out-of-dahl

I think if people don't like them they shouldn't read them. Write new books rather than destroying other writers work.

I did read recently that university students were given a trigger warning prior to reading shakespeare.
You couldn't make it up!
I'm just glad that I still have all my Blyton books from my childhood and the Dahl books from my kids childhood.
World's gone mad!

That's insane.

@WeWereInParis Oh, that's good then. I found the thought of a committee adding a dedication to someone's book really, really annoying.