This book is about the greatest books in the world. All of them culty classics and books you have to have read. If you haven't, now's your chance to read them all at once. If you have you can read them again and see what you remember. In four illustrated squares we give you the entire story, a sort of distilled novel, so you can read 80 books in a couple of hours. It is great for people in a hurry or just anyone who likes books.
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Mini-reviews that fall short both in humor and in accuracy
Oct 21 2009
By Suzanne Amara
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I've read a few books like this one, that sum up the classics so you can feel you've read them even if you haven't, and I have no problem with that concept---as the saying goes, so many books, so little time. However, this is a very weak entry into that genre! Each summary is done in a 4 panel cartoon format, with text only in the last 3 panels. Even that could work, if the author didn't try to make the last part of each summary a joke. The jokes ALL fall flat, and are often repetitive---something like "Warm fuzzies for all!" is used over and over. When I read summaries of books I've read in full, they were inaccurate in almost every case---totally missing the point of the book in an effort to be cute or silly, which might be okay if they really were cute and silly. For example, the last panel of Alice in Wonderland says "In the end Alice wakes up to find it was all a dream and tells her sister about it who gets her Grateful Dead CDs and acid for her next birthday" (lack of punctuation is the author's choice, not mine!) The choice of books also seems a bit odd. I like Stephen King fairly well, but really, is Pet Semetary a classic book? Even if you want to include a book by him, pick Carrie or 'Salem's Lot or one of his better known and better written books!
I give this two stars instead of one because in a few cases, it did lead me to want to see what the books it used were all about in their full form. I might try One Few Over the Cuckoo's Nest or The Picture of Dorian Gray. Any book that gets someone wanting to try a classic deserves 2 stars. But in this case, no more.
I give this two stars instead of one because in a few cases, it did lead me to want to see what the books it used were all about in their full form. I might try One Few Over the Cuckoo's Nest or The Picture of Dorian Gray. Any book that gets someone wanting to try a classic deserves 2 stars. But in this case, no more.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
decent
Mar 30 2010
By LibKat
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Each classic book was compressed down to a 4 panel comic. I quite enjoyed several of the books, in particular the Old Man and the Sea and the Bible. It was a quick and amusing read that was definelty enhanced by a prior knowledge of the works.
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I chuckled on occassion
Mar 6 2013
By Sibelius
- Published on Amazon.com
Fun, quick read that breaks down 90 books into 3 (sometimes) witty comic strip panels. Even though the word 'Classic' is used in the title there is a nice mix of contemporary popular titles alongside tried and true classics.
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