The 1971 book

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  • #14154
    ReganMacNeilfan
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    Ok odd question but has the book change through the years? Cause I got the 1971 version of the book and I just finished but noticed quotes I did not notice in other versions. Curious if there was change. 🙂

    #27244
    granville1
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    I think all editions are “about the same”. The only thing different is correction of a misattribution, in a section heading, of a scriptural citation to St. Paul, which should have gone to St. John.

    Of course, now there is that new edition by Blatty in which he adds a new character to Karras' dream and may have also made some other minor changes.

    Sof is resident expert on the book, maybe she can tell you more.

    #27246
    ReganMacNeilfan
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    I do want that new version. But wondering if I should buy in a store since buying by mail is giving me grief. 🙁 it’s 15$ but seems a bit high oh what to do.

    #27249
    granville1
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    I can't evaluate it for you, but if mail is being a pain in the neck, I'd get it at the bookstore as soon as I was sure I could afford it…

    #27252
    Sofia
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    “Sof is resident expert on the book, maybe she can tell you more.”

     

    <3.

    Actually I have already written to Kera (ReganM fan) about this on facebook. 😉

    All novel versions are the same except for the 40th anniversary edition. There are differences in the phrasings, some excerpts have been extended, there’s the new chilling Karras nightmare, etc.

     

    Some added excerpts from Chapter 1: 

    “…Chris thought again about the puzzling coldness of Regan's room and into her mind flashed a recollection of working in a film with Edward G. Robinson, the legendary gangster movie star of the 1940s, and wondering why in every scene they did together she was always close to shivering from the cold until she realized that the wily old veteran had been managing to stand in her key light. “

     

    ” Chris looked at the spires of Georgetown University before lowering a pensive and moody gaze to the Potomac's deceptively placid surface, which offered no hint of the swift and powerful currents that surged underneath it. Chris shifted her weight a little. In the soft, smoothing light of evening, the river, with its seeming dead calm and stillness, suddenly struck her as something that was planning. And waiting.”

    #27253
    fatherbowdern
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    Sofia said:

    “Sof is resident expert on the book, maybe she can tell you more.”

     

    <3.

    Actually I have already written to Kera (ReganM fan) about this on facebook. 😉

    All novel versions are the same except for the 40th anniversary edition. There are differences in the phrasings, some excerpts have been extended, there's the new chilling Karras nightmare, etc.

     

    Some added excerpts from Chapter 1: 

    “…Chris thought again about the puzzling coldness of Regan's room and into her mind flashed a recollection of working in a film with Edward G. Robinson, the legendary gangster movie star of the 1940s, and wondering why in every scene they did together she was always close to shivering from the cold until she realized that the wily old veteran had been managing to stand in her key light. “

     

    ” Chris looked at the spires of Georgetown University before lowering a pensive and moody gaze to the Potomac's deceptively placid surface, which offered no hint of the swift and powerful currents that surged underneath it. Chris shifted her weight a little. In the soft, smoothing light of evening, the river, with its seeming dead calm and stillness, suddenly struck her as something that was planning. And waiting.”

    Sheer brilliance as always from Blatty. He could make the telephone book interesting to read.

    Father B

    #27254
    ReganMacNeilfan
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    Yeah I want to get this version too. 🙂

    #27256
    Sofia
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    Father Bowdern said:


    Sheer brilliance as always from Blatty. He could make the telephone book interesting to read.

    Father B

    Haha, that's true!

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