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books!!!!!!
Apr. 20th, 2012 09:14 pmI got my copies of The Wooden Horse and its companion volume The Tunnel today. I've been dying to read The Wooden Horse in its proper edition for grown-ups, and I've already noticed one change (when Peter daydreams about bathtubs he pictures one big enough for two, a detail inexpicably left out of my other "for young people" edition).
But you can imagine my dismay when my new copy of The Tunnel turned out to be, yes you guessed it, an edition "specially revised and edited by the author for young people." *headdesk* I've e-mailed the bookseller gently chiding them for not including this damned important information in their description and asking if they have a copy of the real book I can buy (in addition to the one I already have, as I don't want to go through the hassle of trying to return a book internationally).
But in the mean time, the bowdlerized version is probably still plenty homoerotic, if TWH is anything to go by.
But you can imagine my dismay when my new copy of The Tunnel turned out to be, yes you guessed it, an edition "specially revised and edited by the author for young people." *headdesk* I've e-mailed the bookseller gently chiding them for not including this damned important information in their description and asking if they have a copy of the real book I can buy (in addition to the one I already have, as I don't want to go through the hassle of trying to return a book internationally).
But in the mean time, the bowdlerized version is probably still plenty homoerotic, if TWH is anything to go by.
