I've only read the full version, but I can imagine what bits were probably cut and how that would affect the story flow.

I'm reminded of having watched Clive Barker's Hellraiser as edited for broadcast by the SciFi Channel with my mom once. She said it made absolutely no sense to her. Having read the novella it's based on, I responded that Barker tended to put the most important plot points in the most graphic parts of the story, so "cleaning it up" rather makes an empty shell of it.

I'm not saying that if you read the full version it would redeem the work in your eyes (I doubt it), but it might make the book seem more self-referentially coherent in its own little pocket universe.