I prefer the movie as well. Not only did key characters not die but I didn’t have to go through endless eighties lists of media. That was maddening in the book.

This hasn’t been the case for decades?

I mean, when I served deployments in the military, porn was banned but since the majority of care packages sent via MWR (Morale, Welfare, Recreation) were housewives “donating” the old romance novels, it was the most porn we could legally get. There were so many romance novels sent, I always got super excited when actual fantasy and sci-fi books made it. Even the shitty ones. I did find some good romance novels too but … there were just so many to dig through. I always pointed out to my buddies that if they wanted legal porn, they had plenty to choose from. It just didn’t have pictures.

I read a lot of romance and have since I was a kid. Yeah, there were authors who preferred the fade to black or flowery words to represent s*x but there have always been plenty who go full smut.

Diane Duane did this? I have no idea why but I thought she died. Huh. Guess not.

Um… I see no problem if they release the revision as a new edition and don’t overwrite my ebooks. I don’t mind buying books again if I like the author enough side-eyes my collection of various Lord of the Rings editions.

I listened to a lot of books narrated by Greg Boudreaux. He regularly mispronounces odd words. Feral becomes fee-rahl, rifle is rih-fle, etc. They jerk me out of the narrative each time he does it.