Hard Read

[abfarid@startrek.website]

The only reason I know the contents of most classic literature is because of "So You Haven't Read" series on YouTube.

[reverendender@sh.itjust.works]

So what color was it?

[jet@hackertalks.com]

Just have people write in class...

[gerbler@lemmy.world]

Me with Thug Notes. I wish I had discovered it during highschool

[arrakark@10291998.xyz]

I don't get it

[tikiporch@lemmy.world]

Even now, I remember much more about those books where along with which I read the Cliffs Notes, than whatever halfbrained notions I came up with on my own about books like Animal Farm.

Kind of confusing to read, but I hope you get the gist.

[mosiacmango@lemm.ee]

Steinbeck had a knack for saying a lot with a little. "The pearl" is another of his works that is also incredibly short but you could easily discuss it well past its length.

I highly recommend the "grapes of wrath" to anyone who hasn't read it as well. Its account of the brutal knock on effects of the dust bowl and the nature of human kindness and sadism left a mark on my life that never left.

[dance_ninja@lemmy.world]

The Cliff Notes

[joyfulcodingguy@lemmy.ml]

Link to the direct comic in case you want to share with easier credit: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/hard-read/

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

My biggest problem with Thug Notes is all the people taking the Thug part seriously.

[thejoker954@lemmy.world]

I just kept thinking that it was supposed to be condoms for some reason lol.

[gerbler@lemmy.world]

The actor drops character from time to time when he's using long sentences and you catch a glimpse of exactly that. I'd love to see him do other stuff as well though. Thug aside, he's legitimately awesome at breaking down subtext for dumb dumbs like me to get.

[rooty@lemmy.world]

A lot of classics, especially those from the 19th century were initially serialized in newspapers, and the resulting doorstopper of a book was never meant to be read in a short time frame that teachers usually give for reading and report writing.

[regdog@lemmy.world]

How does the book suddenly appear on the table in the second frame? It could not have been obscured by the the man's jeans, because he is still wearing them in the first frame.

[wes4humanity@lemm.ee]

Cliffs notes... Fell out of his jeans is my interpretation

[funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works]

It's falling out of his jeans, but movement lines don't really gel with the artists' style

[thefriar@lemm.ee]

That’s actually the entire joke of the comic, that he had her cliff notes in his jeans

[lugal@sopuli.xyz]

I just read Frankenstein, published in 1818, and it's originally in 3 volumes even tho it's not that long in total. My assumption was that printing and binding big books was a problem back then but maybe people didn't read it as one

[nbodyproblem@lemmy.world]

As a kid who loved reading, the one and only time I read the cliffs notes was for the Diary of Anne Frank. I just couldn’t stand to slog through it and nobody else in class wanted to read it either.

Ironically, I got a perfect score on that test with an average class score of 60. Every single question was addressed in the cliff notes while I skimmed them the night before the test. My teacher treated us to an extended rant when she handed back the tests. “CLEARLY nBodyProblem is the only person who actually WORKED HARD and bothered to READ and UNDERSTAND the material. You all need to learn to be more like nBodyProblem”

[exasperation@lemm.ee]

Next thing you're gonna tell me I'm not supposed to binge an entire 22-episode season of The Office in one sitting.