He also defended Fleming as a good writer. The award-winning thriller writer told TalkTV's Piers Morgan that other iconic texts would not survive being looking at through a woke lens, saying: 'If you try the Bible, I don't think the Bible will survive.'

The publisher went on to almost-u-turn last week when they offered to release two versions of the texts - the originals and edited stories.īest-selling author Frederick Forsyth slammed the decision to rewrite parts of Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming's work to make them more 'acceptable' to modern audiencesĪnd, over the weekend, it was also announced that Ian Fleming's classic spy novels were being republished with a slew of changes to the language - many of the changes concerned racist language, including racial slurs. Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory can now only be described as 'enormous' and not 'fat'. Publisher Penguin had sparked controversy last week when it emerged they had hired staff to vet the classic tales for language that may be deemed offensive. I don't like that, I don't like being controlled.'

It says, 'You will think the way we think, you will talk the way we talk and you will believe what we believe. Speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored on TalkTV, he blasted 'sensitivity readers' who had stripped the words 'fat' and 'ugly' from Dahl's novels and racial references removed from James Bond, saying: 'It's all part of this new thing called 'wokeism'. Best-selling author Frederick Forsyth slammed the decision to rewrite parts of Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming's work to make them more 'acceptable' to modern audiences.

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