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Long Story Short
Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in Three Panels | Lisa Brown
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Literature is long. Comics are short. Does Proust get you down? Do you find The Unbearable Lightness of Being simply unbearable? Is The Inferno your own private hell? Do you long to be conversant about classics like Moby Dick, the Bhagavad Gita, Madame Bovary, and, um, Twilight? Bestselling illustrator Lisa Brown (The Airport Book; Baby, Mix Me a Drink) did her homework. Long Story Short offers 100 pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries, from curriculum classics like Don Quixote, Lord of the Flies, and Jane Eyre to modern favorites like Beloved, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Atonement, conveniently organized by subjects including Love, Sex, Death, and Female Trouble. Lisa Browns Long Story Short is the perfect way to turn a traipse through what your English teacher called the canon into a frolicor to happily cram for the next occasion that requires you to appear bookish and well-read.
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Bathilda
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Exactly what it promises. It's funny and quick, although it helps if you've read the book before. I would read something else by Lisa Brown, for sure.

Makes me want to read Hark, A Vagrant though.

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Sarahreadstoomuch
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Eh, this was okay. I thought it would be more entertaining but it‘s really just a lot of meh.

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SW-T
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Classics condensed into short two or three panel summaries. Nonessential humor reading. Some funnier than others, but overall, enjoyable.

#humor

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Hooked_on_books
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This is a clever, fun book that simplifies the plots of well-known books and turns them into 3 panel cartoons. I enjoyed it.

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Hooked_on_books
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I love these two

kyraleseberg 😂 5y
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Hooked_on_books
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Fun book that boils down book plots to 3 panels. A lot of these are really good.

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Twocougs
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This book made my day, it made me laugh on a day that I wasn‘t laughing. Feeling pretty awesome too because I‘ve read the vast majority of them!!!

Well-ReadNeck That seriously looks genius! 5y
Twocougs @Well-ReadNeck and so fun! 5y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘ll have to look this one up! 5y
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WanderingBookaneer
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This book is genius! I‘m definitely buying a physical copy for my classroom. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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