^ "Editing" does not imply impressing one's own moral standards on a work.
r u oneah them thar English MajorsUC could have been vastly improved with a thorough edit from a strictly grammatical/literary standpoint without changing the story one iota.
The kinky sex didn't offend me but it was pretty clear that the author was projecting some of his own fantasies (realities?) which gave a very slimy to the overall work.
r u oneah them thar English Majors
like Fifty Shades of GreyOne thing that many UC groupies don't seem to realize is that if UC was a more polished and less kinky work, it may well have sold thousands of times more copies.
One thing that many UC groupies don't seem to realize is that if UC was a more polished and less kinky work, it may well have sold thousands of times more copies.
Rather than be a tiny cult hit it may have been a NYT bestseller -- and it may just have given millions of people pause in their condemnation of guns and the so-called "gun culture."
I'd like to see if it could use a good editing. After all, if it can be made more readable, as some suggest, it might find a wider audience... which would be a good thing, I guess. At least according to what I've read herein.
like Fifty Shades of Grey
shoulda...................coulda...................woulda
Maybe he'd contract you to edit the P out of the PG and make it PC.
You made me go and look. Mine is a 5th eddition, signed in 2004.
I took Ross' MO CCW class around then, but had bought the book a couple of years before. He had some interesting perspective, as he was one of the people involved in getting Missouri's CCW law passed.
It was also by far the "best value" of the 3 or 4 CCW classes I've taken. I want to say he charged around $100. He'd teach the classroom portion in the evening, and maybe once a month have several of those evening groups meet at his gravel pit, just across the river in Illinois.
For his $100 fee, he would provide guns, ammo, lunch (grilled burgers & hot dogs). And it was a pretty good selection, including several common semi autos and revolvers. I recall shooting a couple of S&W .500s (not bad to shoot) and a scandium framed S&W .44 Mag with hardwood grips (very unpleasant).
Once everyone had shot and eaten, he pulled out the machine guns. It was $20 for 3 mags of your choice. He gave a free Thompson mag to anyone who wanted to buy his book. (I already had it, so he signed it and gave me a mag to shoot anyway). I then put a couple of mags through his FN-D, and one through his Glock 18.
So now I tell people I used a full-auto Glock to pass my MO CCW class. Makes for a good story.
Clayton Nelson, from Gunnison, CO - changed to Bischoff from VT. There's now just a passing reference to Nelson as, "but that's not as bad as that guy in Colorado. He even makes 2-bores, but I hear that he quit that."Does anyone recall the character name that got changed after the first printing, something to do with libel or some such?