I read them all last year and a lot like the Oz books I really like them up to a point and then they drop off hard. For ASoUE it was everything after the Hostile Hospital and for Oz it was everything after book 3

That’s true. Even though he acts like a completely new person I could argue that I didn’t create his brain - Is a doctor responsible for the crimes that a patient performs post-resuscitation?

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How can you read the novel without sympathising with Frankenstein? The whole story is about how he tries to do something huge and then everyone he loves gets brutally murdered

He did not 'let her hang' what are you talking about

It’s given

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Thing is, I didn’t treat my monster like crap, society does. The only thing you could argue I did do is let him escape to society in a vulnerable state

Please sir a crumb of oppression

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A private company publishing edited versions of fictional books is not the same as a totalitarian government seeking to alter peoples perception of reality by altering historical documents.

Consider the following: people are not being forced to read the new versions, the old versions are not being banned or outlawed by any government, this is just one publisher, the edits are minor and don't fundamentally change the stories, the books are fictional anyway so never represented the "truth" about anything to begin with.

So no... its not even remotely the same thing.

we assigned ‘expert’ roles like psychologist and biologist. im probably going to bribe the psychologist

To put it simply: You missed the entire point of the series.

i don't think you appreciate what Orwell probably had in mind.

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North Korea has the closest thing to IRL "Ministry of Truth"

this is the kind of truth their ministry provides

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_North_Korea

Paintings on the walls of the Sinchon Museum of American War Atrocities depict alleged atrocities carried out by American soldiers during the Korean War.

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South Korea is often depicted as a place of dangerous racial contamination.[27]

North Korean propaganda often invokes Koreans as the purest of races, with a mystical bond with the natural beauty of the landscape

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Romance is often depicted in stories as being triggered solely by the person's model citizenship, as when a beautiful woman is unattractive until a man learns she volunteered to work at a potato farm .[34]

Haven’t read these books since middle school but I loved them so much I’m naming my newborn to be Violet.

Was thinking of re-reading to refresh, but based on your stand point maybe not… lol

In the book, I was overwhelmed by the physical and mental exertion of my experiment so I took a nap. Just as a pregnant woman is probably not able-bodied as soon as she gives birth, would it also be negligence on her part if she fell asleep while her baby escaped?

not sure I understand...

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you're suggesting that this

>destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered.

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is equivalent to this?

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Augustus Gloop now ‘enormous’ instead of ‘fat’

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it's not false, the book is not rewritten, (a word is being replaced - with a synonym), Augustus is still a "big boy", is still named Agustus... and no dates have changed.

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are they vastly different than the version you remember?

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Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/18/roald-dahl-books-rewritten-to-remove-language-deemed-offensive

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In The Twits, Mrs Twit is no longer “ugly and beastly” but just “beastly”.

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In The Witches, a paragraph explaining that witches are bald beneath their wigs ends with the new line: “There are plenty of other reasons why women might wear wigs and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.”

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> but personally I can't ignore their similarity in light of the recent events

i don't put the Ministry of Truth in the same league as using a different word for fat.

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It gets crazier if you keep reading the series. Olaf starts to make more sense and your start to empathize with him and the kids start making questionable choices and start seeming to be more like the bad guys. There is evil, there are people that make no sense, and everyone thinks their bad choices are justified. It is unfortunate, but sometimes so is life.

You can - and that would also be correct. Whether it is useful to anyone is another question

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That is just a result of how you choose to catergorize things. I could also just as easily say that all stories fall into only two categories, stories about hippos and stories that arent about hippos.

It has a very quiet, semi-tragic conclusion that I appreciate a lot more as an adult than I did as a kid.

Chess has only 6 types of pieces with absolutely no variations among the same pieces. Each piece has only ever has a limited number of possible paths, 27 at max but on average only 11. Yet after only 5 turns for both players there are 69,352,859,712,417 possible outcomes.