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From: Titus G <noone@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: Frazz for 9/5/24 about summarizing books
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:24:37 +1200
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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.