Did King add to the orginal

[chief4db]

I am half way thru the stand and I have the orginal uncut version king wrote in 78 I believe. but there are mentions of the movie predator which came out in 1987 and Madonna on page 133 who I don't believe became known until 1986 or so. obviously this is not the orginal uncut version in 1978 that was cut down 300 pages or so and then released. did king add to the release of the orginal uncut version in 1990. I know kinda confusing. if he did I wonder what made him do that. anyone know if he did and why. thanks

 

[Dana Jean]

I'll tag Moderator and maybe she can hep you.

 

[no bounce no play]

I am half way thru the stand and I have the orginal uncut version king wrote in 78 I believe. but there are mentions of the movie predator which came out in 1987 and Madonna on page 133 who I don't believe became known until 1986 or so. obviously this is not the orginal uncut version in 1978 that was cut down 300 pages or so and then released. did king add to the release of the orginal uncut version in 1990. I know kinda confusing. if he did I wonder what made him do that. anyone know if he did and why. thanks

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[Walter Oobleck]

It happens. Was reading a collection of John D MacDonald stories...Good Old Stuff...and in a preface MacDonald explained how the collection came to be, said he had gone through the stories to more-or-less update things, remove things...presumably cultural references...one story refers to Vietnam that had to have been another war when the story was written in the...'47-52 time period. I don't know the details of The Stand but I'll hazard that the same kind of thing happened here. Some of his latest stories are chock-full of cultural references and they help center the reader, the story is richer with them, than it is without.

 

[GNTLGNT]

see the replies on your first thread Here's a link newbie here and question | The StephenKing.com Message Board

...yep...asked & answered...

 

[chief4db]

thanks that clears things up. but that basically means that the orginal uncut version written in 78 is still not been released. obviously when it first got published it was edited down some 300 pages so that wasn't it and then in 1990 when they released the uncut version things were added like Madonna and the movie predator mention. I would love for him to release the orginal uncut version in 78 just how it was. call it the pristine version or something catchy. im sure it would sell. have another question but will start a new thread for that so this doesn't morph into something else. thanks again

 

[fljoe0]

thave another question but will start a new thread for that so this doesn't morph into something else.

Don't worry, all of our threads morph into something else.

 

[Moderator]

thanks that clears things up. but that basically means that the orginal uncut version written in 78 is still not been released. obviously when it first got published it was edited down some 300 pages so that wasn't it and then in 1990 when they released the uncut version things were added like Madonna and the movie predator mention. I would love for him to release the orginal uncut version in 78 just how it was. call it the pristine version or something catchy. im sure it would sell. have another question but will start a new thread for that so this doesn't morph into something else. thanks again

Your edition may not have the Preface in which Stephen mentions that the 1990 version is an expansion of the original novel which now includes (with some editing which explains the updated references) approximately 400 pages which were edited out of the 1978 version.

 

[Sigmund]

Don't worry, all of our threads morph into something else.

Morph, evolve, deteriorate...

 

[FlakeNoir]

Morph, evolve, deteriorate...

...sully.

 

[Rarebit]

The unabridged version I just finished ends with the following words:

February 1975
December 1988

So, he apparently had been working on it in 1974, if not even earlier.

The version begins with an author's note in two parts; one is a very funny preface to be read before purchase, and the other a preface-part II, to be read after purchase. He explains that this edition adds no new characters, just fleshes them out more. One example is that it includes a confrontation between Frannie and her mother that apparently didn't make it into the original release, or at least not in the same detail.

Interestingly, he also offers thoughts on whether The Stand would ever be made into a movie, saying, "probably yes." (In fact, it did become a tv miniseries in 1994.)

As I was reading this version, I too initially wondered whether he had just added back material that had been cut to meet the accountants' demands or had actually added some updated cultural references. It eventually became obvious that he had indeed introduced some updated material. An obvious example was when he referred to HIV and AIDS, which were completely unknown in the 1970s.