Comments on: Writing swear words in the margins (Review: Deep Secret, Diana Wynne Jones)

By: margomusing

margomusing — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:35:54 +0000

In reply to Gin Jenny. I can't remember who all the people are , but I know Neil Gaiman, and Charles Vess are there, and I think possible Alan Moore as well. (Neil was also the model for Nick in the 'not-yet-conscious-eating-breakfast' scene)

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:12:45 +0000

In reply to margomusing. Oo, interesting! I didn't know about this! I will have to look at the silly cover again and reassess.

By: margomusing

margomusing — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:55:52 +0000

Just found this post – I bought a copy of the version with the ‘silly’ cover after I learned that all the people on the cover are caricatures of real people – mostly writers and illustrators DWJ knew. I had noticed that some of the vocabulary had been ‘Americanised’ but hadn’t noticed that they had also Bowdlerized the text (probably because I mostly *read* my original version!

By: Review: Deep Secret, Diana Wynne Jones | Reading the End

Review: Deep Secret, Diana Wynne Jones | Reading the End — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:46:55 +0000

[…] And for the first time in even longer, we have an American edition of this book that doesn’t take out all the swear words! Huzzah! If you are one of the (gloriously many!) people who has asked me what Diana Wynne Jones […]

By: Diana Wynne Jones Month, Day 30: Magids Duology - Here There Be Books

Diana Wynne Jones Month, Day 30: Magids Duology - Here There Be Books — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 01:37:36 +0000

[…] It’s not like they just changed an LP to a cassette or something to update technology; they took out words and changed others and it’s definitely less funny for those edits. So I don’t have positive thoughts when […]

By: The Cover Wars #2 | The Book Wars

The Cover Wars #2 | The Book Wars — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:06:09 +0000

[…] 4th one* See http://readingtheend.com/2010/02/05/writing-swear-words-in-the-margins/ for a peculiarity of this copy and yet another example of the utter inanity of […]

By: Here There Be Books (formerly Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog) | REVIEW: The Merlin Conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones (#dwjmarch)

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:26:06 +0000

[…] I forgot to read Deep Secret (Magids #1) first. I wasn’t going to read it this month because (according to Jenny) my copy’s been bowdlerized and that is bad. So I was going to put it off until I got the […]

By: Birdbrain(ed) Book Blog | REVIEW: The Merlin Conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones (#dwjmarch)

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:29:17 +0000

By: Kiley Wright

Kiley Wright — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 04:11:47 +0000

I’m laughing at Anastasia’s “Jenny from the past” post, because I was doing the exact same thing one day after her (three years after the original post). I’m also laughing because the post is just so darn funny! I, too, have been a tyranical older sister and a self-appointed editor, and I love DWJ with a passion that can be embarrassing (mostly to those around me). I was about to buy Deep Secret on Amazon, but I’m glad I saw your blog first. I will have to make sure the book I buy is properly smutified. 🙂

By: Anastasia

Anastasia — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:16:01 +0000

Hello, Jenny from the past! It’s Anastasia from the future! I refound this blog post while googling something DWJ-related and HEY, just remembered that I still only have the de-smutted copy of Deep Secret.

This is still just as annoying as it was three years ago, so to make myself feel better I’ve copied you and put the smut back in (only on two pages, but still).

The only other time I’ve written in my books like this was in Blubber– first I crossed out the “bad” words, and then a few years later I wrote them back in. Editing/re-editing books is fun!