>Abridged Edition Why are abridged editions even produced?

because most of it sucks, so they just give you the good parts...i'd still read the unabridged, but if there is an abridged version be prepared for long, boring, irrelevant, or just plain wrong passages that drone on forever

also, they don't really abridge audiobooks much anymore, they only used to do it so it would fit on two cassettes or whatever

>>9400259
>because most of it sucks,

who decides which bits suck? what a colossal act of arrogance, to take a finished work and claim you knew better than the author, who created it.

>>9400251
Certain books are almost always read abridged. For example, Journey to the West. Apparently for reasons >>9400259 suggests.
>>9400314
Nothing wrong with arrogance.

>>9400373
Undeserved arrogance is another word for stupidity. I'm reminded of this every time Assange opens his mouth.

It's because of school homework, I guess. Kids probably can't be bothered to read a large book just to do an assignment.

because victor hugo is fucking obsessed with the sewer system's every fucking detail like it's his long lost mother whose only chance of being reborn is autistic cataloging of its features and dimensions