{"id":4057,"date":"2010-12-17T08:09:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T13:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2010-12-17T08:10:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T13:10:37","slug":"watered-down-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4057","title":{"rendered":"Watered down bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have, all my life, tried to find original, unexpurgated books; the readers digest condensed versions usually don&#8217;t do it for me. <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, there are some books that are just too fucking long. &#8220;Shogun&#8221; would be seven pages without the history lesson, &#8220;The Stand&#8221; would be fifty pages without the cocaine King jammed up his nose while he was writing it. <\/p>\n<p>One of the books most difficult to find undamaged is The Count of Monte Cristo. And there are good reasons; the book has been hacked up to try to sell it to a younger or possibly more repressed audience. You won&#8217;t find the drug use, the treachery, the rape and torture in the commonly available versions, and the book loses a great deal of it&#8217;s literary validity because of that. Read the kindle version, if you&#8217;ve never had a chance to read it unfucked-with, and you&#8217;ll agree: What was an awesome book after it had been hacked to pieces is nothing short of monumental in it&#8217;s original form. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, and its free. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have, all my life, tried to find original, unexpurgated books; the readers digest condensed versions usually don&#8217;t do it for me. Yeah, there are some books that are just too fucking long. &#8220;Shogun&#8221; would be seven pages without the history lesson, &#8220;The Stand&#8221; would be fifty pages without the cocaine King jammed up his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}