Hard Read

[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?