Abridged Books

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Per Budd, I am required to comment on abridged books.

*Are abridgements a good introduction to long, boring classics, or a blight on literature?* Abridgements are a trip and fall down a flight of stairs that should never be visited.

*If abridgements have their place, what is it?* Their place is in the ESL section of the book store or in an Elementary School Classroom.

*Have you read any abridgements, or will you read any? Why or why not?* I don't care for abridgements. If a person is incapable of reading a story in it's entirety, they should resign theirselves to reading comic books and brief magazine articles and stop butchering perfectly decent literature so that they too can participate in general society and "take part" in conversations in the break room and by the water cooler without appearing to have that glazed look. Much like the dougnuts they ingest for breakfast every morning.