I can see the covers leading to a great number of disappointed purchasers. The front cover of the one I looked at shows nothing that would immediately distinguish it as a story over a hundred years old and with markedly different plots and characterization than those seen in the BBC series.
Exploring different places in space, time, and thought can be one of the best parts of being a reader as far as I'm concerned. But some people like to be surrounded only by the familiar, possibly because they just want to focus on characterization and the like and differences distract them, possibly because they read for a comfortably familiar retreat. (And I'm certainly not going to say "Oh, you're not a real reader if you don't read like I do or don't enjoy the same things I do.") Those people are going to feel cheated.
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Date: 2012-05-23 07:12 pm (UTC)Exploring different places in space, time, and thought can be one of the best parts of being a reader as far as I'm concerned. But some people like to be surrounded only by the familiar, possibly because they just want to focus on characterization and the like and differences distract them, possibly because they read for a comfortably familiar retreat. (And I'm certainly not going to say "Oh, you're not a real reader if you don't read like I do or don't enjoy the same things I do.") Those people are going to feel cheated.