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S'està carregant… Shrinklits : the one-inch shelf of the world's greatest literature (1970 original; edició 1970)de Maurice Sagoff (Autor), Naiad Einsel (Il·lustrador)
Informació de l'obraShrinkLits: Seventy of the World's Towering Classics Cut Down to Size de Maurice Sagoff (1970)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. A library in a single book! ahahaha ( ) From: https://atkinsbookshelf.wordpress.com "We live in the Google Era, where information comes so fast, it’s like drinking out of a fire hose. That information overload combined with the prevalence of apps like Twitter and TikTok has dramatically decreased the reader’s attention span to 144 characters or 15 seconds — whichever comes first. With that kind of an attention span, who is ever going to take the time to read literary classics. And let’s face it — some of these classics run a little long; for example, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes runs about 900 pages (containing more than 180,000 words), while Moby-Dick by Herman Melville runs about 700 pages (containing 135 chapters, and more than 209,117 words). If you read 250 words per minute, it would take about 19 hours to read Don Quixote and 14 hours to read Moby-Dick. (Incidentally, at readinglength[dot]com you can enter any book title and see how long it takes to read it based on your own reading speed). Who has that kind of time? That’s where Maurice Sagoff’s little book, ShrinkLits comes in. Sagoff has managed to shrink 70 of the world’s most famous literary classics down to size. If you have a minute, you can read a summary of one of the classics, like Don Quixote, Moby-Dick, King Lear, or The Great Gatsby. Here is the ShrinkLit version of Melville’s magnum opus, Moby Dick. Whale chomped Ahab’s leg in two. “Hunt that beast! he tells his crew. First, a welter of whaling schmooze, Then comes Moby and hell breaks loose. Smashup! Ahab’s drowned in brine, Lashed to the whale by a harpoon line. Good (symbolic) with Evil vies, If you’d fathom it, you must rise. Pretty uneven – some of these are clever, many are just “meh.” A few, like “The Hobbit” which, uniquely, gets two poems to allow Sagoff to fully express his scorn for the work, are just dumb and pretentious. (Here is “Hobbit [2]”) ”Hobbit-hole (“Bag End”) is small, Most of them are better than that, anyway. I thought his take on A Doll's House, by Ibsen, was particularly snappy. ”Husband treats her like a doll, Antigone, Lolita, and The Great Gatsby are also good, and for a fifty cent library sale purchase this was okay, but if you skip it you aren't missing much. I purchased this because I haven't read as many classic books as I've wanted to. I've always wanted to be classified as "well read." I thought this book would help me to get a brief overview of many classics that remain a mystery. The poetry is very cute and very well done. However, the only poetry I really understood was about the classics that I've already read. It was an amusing book, but it did not help me grasp the sense of books I haven't read. In order to make the metre and rhyme of the poems work, the author chooses words that I've rarely heard. And I've always thought I had a good vocabulary! I would recommend this book for the amusement of someone who has read most of the classics already and wants a humorous review. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
From Antigone to Lolita, from Beowulf to The Hobbit. The world's greatest literature is summarized in Maurice Sagoff's hilarious light verse. The result-70 intoxicating distillations of the classics everyone has been taking far too seriously for far too long. Selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club and a New York Times Best Seller. 180,000 copies in print. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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