Hard Read

[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.

[moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee]

Every single question was addressed in the cliff notes while I skimmed them the night before the test.

And you suddenly realized what your teacher used to make the test questions.

[humanspiral@lemmy.ca]

I miss peanuts. I could follow peanuts, or just think snoopy was cool.

[nbodyproblem@lemmy.world]

Ya know, that never occurred to me. That makes it twice as hilarious if true.

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

I'm assuming it fell out of the jeans.

[jakenveina@lemm.ee]

The book on the table has the telltale Cliff Notes branding imagery. Cliff Notes is a company that was real big in the 90s and 00s (not sure how big these days) for making short summaries of famous novels, including plot points and themes. Everything you would need to write a competent essay on the book. They're notorious for allowibg high school kids to get through literature classes without actually doing the reading work.

[persi@lemm.ee]

Your assumption might be the case for frankenstein, it's a relatively short book.

The parent is most likely talking about books like the count of monte cristo. It goes on for more than a thousand pages, but was originally serialised over a couple years.

Similar things happen to older books. Current day editions of don quixote include don quixote part 2, which was a sequel published a decade after the first.

[aeki@slrpnk.net]

I just watched Wishbone

[udon@lemmy.world]

At some point you realize that many of the classic books are just... really good books! The terrible part is what they do to them in literature class. But many of those old books have become classics for a reason.

[veneroso@lemmy.world]

Thank you. This joke completely went over my head.

[valmond@lemmy.world]

Chatgpt from yesteryear.

[whoisearth@lemmy.ca]

Some teachers allowed coles notes and some didn't but was anyone else a member of the gang whose parents couldn't afford coles notes so you never had that leg up and only had the source material or a friend you could borrow off if you were lucky?