Uncut version vs. original version

[frisbee]

I didn't realize the cut version was so hard to find as I have had mine since around the time it came out. My 20 year-old daughter and I are both avid readers and are reading books together this summer. We just finished The Stand. It was interesting because I read the uncut version and she read the original version so I was able to kind of compare the two. Personally, I like the uncut version better because it keeps me in the story longer - but I am a SK nut. I think she appreciated reading the original version more.

[cullen fan]

I've only read the uncut version I enjoyed so much that I'm going to reead the uncut version nothing wrong with reading a book the way the writer intended.

[Sundrop]

IMO, the original is the uncut version......
You can't have an edited version without the longer, original version to cut in the first place.

[JohnDalglish]

IMO, the original is the uncut version......
You can't have an edited version without the longer, original version to cut in the first place.

Hi,

I see what you mean and that's true.

But the original PUBLISHED version had the edits that the publlisher insisted on for purely financial reasons.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Sundrop]

Hi,

I see what you mean and that's true.

But the original PUBLISHED version had the edits that the publlisher insisted on for purely financial reasons.

Long days and pleasant nights

Right you are, John. (that didn't taste too awful coming from my mouth) LOL

I do see what y'all mean.

[Checkman]

Shocking how all my favorite scenes were the ones that got axed.

I couldn't agree more. The chapter detailing what happens to some of the other survivors who don't make it more than a few days after the pandemic ends. The chapter with the firefight and the chapter showing the last couple days of modern civilization before the total collapse. That chapter is very Old Testament. I'm speculating here, but I wonder if those chapters were edited because they were considered to be too disturbing in a book with an already very disturbing storyline?

[since75]

I usually read The Stand at least once a year, and had the original 1978 edition until the new one came out, I remember being so excited when I got it until I realized that not only was more story added, but details which I had almost committed to memory had been changed (for no reason I could see) and it made me 'angry'! geesh, was that a run-on sentence or what? Anyway, what with candy bars being changed Payday from MilkyWay, dates being bumped up 15 years or so, car years and makes being changed, music acts changed and performers changed.. Madonna?Madonna?? Why? o why? was my favorite book of all time being changed like that, I wailed. Since I know nothing about the publishing process, it probably had something to do with making it 'fresh' for new readers. I understand that, but it was still upsetting. Yes, I am a spoiled wienie constant reader, but gosh darnit I just loved the original 1978 version so much.

[Atik]

When I first bought my copy of The Stand many years ago.I discovered that it was the uncut edition.I was mad.I read a lot of classical literature before I got into modern fiction.Well anyways in classic literature abridged versions take out of the enjoyment of the book.(some of the time at least to me anyways).So I told myself I would get the original version if I didn't like it.It turned out I didn't like it.I loved it.Though I think though if you already read the original you may not like at as much.
CHeers

[violetgoblin]

I adore the uncut version! The Kid part was awesome (please, please put it in the new movie...who could play The Kid? Any ideas???) and also the part about the 2nd death that occured after the first wave of folks were wiped out...so...chilling. Like how the devout Catholic killed himself by running to death after his family all died from Caption Trip.

[days be strange]

I read the uncut version.It was a beast of a book and well worth it.