Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Titus G Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Frazz for 9/5/24 about summarizing books Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:24:37 +1200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: noone@nowhere.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 05:24:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c2512cb785130baa99997a87661eec42"; logging-data="738141"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+/CCWmTgDonmLsENuj3H1W" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:V4k7dbhHfptkqmUHmixaD7iG+rY= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-AU Bytes: 1899 On 6/09/24 14:00, Jay E. Morris wrote: > On 9/5/2024 10:55 AM, a425couple wrote: >> view the comic at: >> >> 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.