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[slammerkinbabe]

Wow. So, for those of you who don't read bookslut, the Times Online is claiming to be publishing an excised original chapter from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Either this is a *very* good fanfic - and frankly it doesn't read like a parody, and the only reason I am mentioning the possibility is that I would feel like an idiot if it were a joke and I presented it as fact - or Dahl had originally conceived that book to be even darker than it was. Ouch.

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[theniwokesoftly.livejournal.com]

Hrm. It seems a bit cut off, you know what I mean? But I suppose that oculd be explained by the fact that it wasn't in the final book so maybe it wasn't edited so much.

But yeah. Dark.

[jandyle.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is really dark. Let me know if you find out if it is real or fake. Wow.

[erbie.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Interesting! I'd love to know if it's real.

[hells-librarian.livejournal.com]

I thought each kid only got to bring one guardian. Maybe not, in previous edits?

[weill.livejournal.com]

I was wondering that myself.

[spudzilla.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha.

I would lean toward real. Dahl was a pretty dark guy. Remember BFG? Or Witches? Those were pretty dark. And of course, there's his adult work, including Switchbitch

[chavvah.livejournal.com]

I don't buy it.

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

Stylistically, practically, how come?