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The $1.49 Kindle Book Is NOT The Actual Book
I bought the Kindle edition for $1.49 (the one with eggs on the cover) and it is NOT the actual, original version; it is a watered-down, summary of sorts of the actual book. It basically takes the original version, changes the prose and wording to make it more "readable" and understandable in more modern language, I suppose. If that's what you're looking for, then I recommend this edition but if you're looking for the original, you'll need to spend a little more money to download the original with the man on the front cover. Maybe I missed some kind of disclosure but I don't remember seeing anything saying this was a different version. Even though I'm only out $1 and some change, it's still kind of disappointing that I wasted it on a book that's seemingly advertised as the original. If they'll sell a book that's not the original for $1.49, I wonder if they'll try to sell one that's not the original for $10 or $15? If you didn't know what you're looking for and didn't know this wasn't the original, you'd just think you got a heck of a deal on a classic when, in reality, you were ripped off. I don't typically give bad reviews and this review does not reflect the content of Brave New World but rather that of the actual sale/this particular version of the book. You can see on the pictures I've attached the differences in the wording from the original to the version I purchased.
October 2017 · Unknown · verified purchase