Reader's Digest

External Since: Sep 06, 2004 Posts: 1

I really enjoy the 'condensed' books by Reader's Digest. They take
out the unnecessary boring parts and there are stories by a lot of
different authors. They can be found at all flea marts really cheap
too........Shirley

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External Since: Mar 13, 2004 Posts: 31

In article <29843-413C819A-195 RemoveThis @storefull-3218.bay.webtv.net>, S. R.
Russell <shirleyrrussell RemoveThis @webtv.net> wrote:

> I really enjoy the 'condensed' books by Reader's Digest. They take
> out the unnecessary boring parts and there are stories by a lot of
> different authors. They can be found at all flea marts really cheap
> too........Shirley

For an opposing view point, I see the RD's Condensed Books to be a
paradigm of the dumbing down of America. The problem with abridging
books is that they convert whatever claims the work had to something of
value to being nothing more than a trivial entertainment. Now there's
nothing wrong with trivial entertainment but it's certainly not
literature. If you want to read short stories, there are consideraly
better sources than RD. If all you want is a plot, watch a movie.

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James P. Spencer
Rochester, MN

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