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Frazz for 9/5/24 about summarizing books
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a425couple
2024-09-05 15:55:00 UTC
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Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 05, 2024,
has an interesting rant about summarizing
books.
Robert Woodward
2024-09-05 16:40:48 UTC
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Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 05, 2024,
has an interesting rant about summarizing
books.
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Lynn McGuire
2024-09-05 23:42:21 UTC
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https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2024/09/05
Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 05, 2024,
has an interesting rant about summarizing
books.
Cool !

Lynn
Jay E. Morris
2024-09-06 02:00:08 UTC
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https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2024/09/05
Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 05, 2024,
has an interesting rant about summarizing
books.
Totally agree with him, I also hated doing book reports. Which is why I
admire all you who do reviews. Doing that is just not in me.
Titus G
2024-09-06 03:24:37 UTC
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https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2024/09/05
Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 05, 2024,
has an interesting rant about summarizing
books.
Totally agree with him, I also hated doing book reports. Which is why I
admire all you who do reviews. Doing that is just not in me.
I also agree. The best summaries and most easily accessed are usually
the promotional blurbs whose bias is known. For this, I use the website
Fantastic Fiction.
An outline with opinions or rankings and their reasons are more
interesting to me than a summary of important events as I mainly read
reviews after the book. Often Wikipedia and sometimes Goodreads.
Scott Dorsey
2024-09-06 23:10:54 UTC
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https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2024/09/05
Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 05, 2024,
has an interesting rant about summarizing
books.
Totally agree with him, I also hated doing book reports. Which is why I
admire all you who do reviews. Doing that is just not in me.
Well, I first entered a seaside Summarizing Proust Competition when I was
on holiday in Bournemouth, and my doctor encouraged me with it.
--scott
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Lynn McGuire
2024-09-06 04:35:52 UTC
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https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2024/09/05
Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 05, 2024,
has an interesting rant about summarizing
books.
Of course, one can also steal the marketing summary from Big River
(Amazon). If present, they are fairly good.

Lynn
a425couple
2024-09-06 20:12:50 UTC
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https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2024/09/05
Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 05, 2024,
has an interesting rant about summarizing
books.
try the next day

https://www.gocomics.com/frazz/2024/09/06
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