But book blogger Jessica Crispin thinks Ebert is overreacting. She argues that
students shouldn't necessarily be deprived of a "universal" storyline just
because the prose is over their heads. Besides, she says, this sort of thing has
been going on for decades, with little known harm done to aspiring readers. She
recalls reading young readers' adaptations of Great Expectations and
A Tale of Two Cities when she was a kid
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