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Re: I have the... normal version? Is there a version where he added more stuff? DrJacJacMcScrumptious Send a noteboard - 16/06/2011 02:14:53 AM
ALl of those little vignettes, that little northern town where Shadow stays for a while, they all help to set the mood of the book.

And I'd have to say I preferred the original, leaner version. Which isn't to say don't like the little details, i do, its just i see that the mood would be conserved without every single one.

I like the original, but I will admit that the addition of more vignettes does seem unnecessary.


Mine's the version with Jesus in it in one scene. Which is apparently the extended author's cut. Which I didn't think was overly long at all, but then I enjoy Stephenson and his detours make Gaiman's seem non-existent. And then there's the likes of some classic authors who trump that. It's a stylistic form, some like it, some don't.
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