{"id":46855,"date":"2020-05-29T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46855"},"modified":"2020-05-16T21:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T01:51:25","slug":"long-story-short-100-classic-books-in-three-panels-by-lisa-brown-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/long-story-short-100-classic-books-in-three-panels-by-lisa-brown-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in Three Panels by Lisa Brown [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46861\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Long-Story-Short-Lisa-Brown-BookDragon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"705\" height=\"664\" \/>So this isn\u2019t Shakespeare. No, wait &#8230; but it is! <em>King Lear<\/em>: \u201cMy daughter is DEAD!\u201d\u00a0<em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>: \u201cMy girlfriend is DEAD . . . Not really.\u201d\u00a0<em>Hamlet<\/em>: \u201cI am DEAD.\u201d Okay, so it\u2019s not\u00a0<em>Moby Dick<\/em>, and yet, here\u2019s man hunting beast: \u201cCaptain Ahab is going to get that whale if it KILLS him. Hey, whales are really big! It DID kill him.\u201d Author-illustrator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanchickens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lisa Brown<\/a> even condenses hubby Lemony Snicket\u2019s 13-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events to \u201cAdults are incompetent &#8230; or evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, then.<\/p>\n<p>Pithily reductive, Brown distills a hundred books, some short stories, and a few poems, each into three(-ish) clever panels presented in 11 playful chapters \u2013 \u201cBig Thoughts\u201d pairs the Old Testament with Anne Lamott\u2019s <em>Bird by Bird<\/em>; \u201cFriends and Frenemies\u201d features\u00a0<em>The Great Gatsby\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Harriet the Spy\u00ad<\/em>. Brown even sustains the chuckles to the final pages. Her \u201cIndex by Subject\u201d boasts such droll entries as \u201cHegemony, Painful Continuation of,\u201d under which\u00a0<em>Little House on the Prairie<\/em>\u00a0can be found.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short? It\u2019s lighter than CliffsNotes and quite possibly more entertaining than the originals (the horror, the horror!).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Long-Story-Short-100-Classic-Books-in-Three-Panels-Lisa-Brown\/pid=9735471\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Graphic Novels,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, May 15, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this isn\u2019t Shakespeare. No, wait &#8230; but it is! King Lear: \u201cMy daughter is DEAD!\u201d\u00a0Romeo and Juliet: \u201cMy girlfriend is DEAD . . . Not really.\u201d\u00a0Hamlet: \u201cI am DEAD.\u201d Okay, so it\u2019s not\u00a0Moby Dick, and yet, here\u2019s man hunting beast: \u201cCaptain Ahab is going&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,73,60,6535,31],"tags":[89,6608,6668,397,9082,9083],"class_list":["post-46855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-nonethnic-specific","category-repost","category-young-adult-readers","tag-anthology-collection","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-humor","tag-lisa-brown","tag-long-story-short"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in Three Panels by Lisa Brown [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/long-story-short-100-classic-books-in-three-panels-by-lisa-brown-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Long Story Short: 100 Classic Books in Three Panels by Lisa Brown [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So this isn\u2019t Shakespeare. 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