90 CLASSIC BOOKS FOR PEOPLE IN A HURRY - Softcover

Henrik Lange

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9185869295 ISBN 13: 9789185869299

Publisher: Nicotext, 2015

Synopsis

This book is about the greatest books in the world. All of them culty classics and books you have to have read. If you haven't, now's your chance to read them all at once. If you have you can read them again and see what you remember. In four illustrated squares we give you the entire story, a sort of distilled novel, so you can read 80 books in a couple of hours. It is great for people in a hurry or just anyone who likes books.

About this title

About the Author:

NICOTEXT is a Swedish publishing company that harvests fresh ideas in the areas of humor, culture and entertainment around the globe. With the goal of creating new and innovative book projects, the company creates books not found anywhere else--books the publishers and founders would want to buy for themselves. Nicotext are makers of the new generation coffee-table books. Nicotext releases 15 new titles every year, many of which are likely to change the world.

From Publishers Weekly:

This collection of humorous cartoons uses the four panel grid to provide Cliffs Notes crack: a super-rush of literary info in no time flat. Whole epics like Ulysses are reduced to four panels—actually three since panel one is always used for the title and not much else. The book selection includes a nice mix of warhorse classics and more modern fare—A Confederacy of Dunces and American Psycho—as well as genre favorites—The Lord of the Rings and Watchmen. The descriptions of each of the 90 books offered are best when they list the plot twists and developments, but Lange includes his own comic punch lines for most of the stories. The cute and amusing cartoons use a scratchy style reminiscent of a less polished Ivan Brunetti or Johnny Ryan. The rhythm of the four panels makes this a tough book to put down and will provide a quick brushup for folks going literary party hopping or book fair wandering. (Mar.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Nicotext
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9185869295
• ISBN 13: 9789185869299
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100