FoxTrot Classics by Bill Amend for November 15, 2021

Is this book just a two-sided single page?

Heart of Darkness was a very thin book, but it was still an unpleasant experience.

Hmmm. Cliff’s Notes version of Madame Bovary? I know I’D be cheering that one. Most boring book I’ve ever read.

Amen, Mrs. Fox!

♫♫"What do you do with a BA in English?"♫♫

I would worry about a text that thin. Might be some cryptic poem with explanations that come in a separate book – a thick book.

“The Complete History of Jewish Sports Legends”

It isn’t the width of the book that matters, it’s the density of the writing.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a novella. She could be talking about that.

I have about 66 books, and combined they’re only 8.8 mm thick, granted they’re all on the Kindle app on my phone, but still :-)

Billy Budd is that thin… are duller than Moby Dick

“Some guy named Carl.”

Philosophy majors who minor in communications get to wonder out loud.

The Immanuel Kant book we needed to read was very thin, but impossible to understand. My girlfriend got so mad she threw it across the room.

Snerks. World’s best weight loss book

Page 1 – EAT LESS

Page 2 – EXERCISE MORE

Page 3 – REPEAT IF NECESSARY

One of the books I liked best in High School English class was ‘A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’, and it wasn’t because it was thin. It was because it was one of the few books that wasn’t a complete load of pretentious #($&$♪ƒ.

Lets see, looking at my own personal library, the most likely candidates for a book that is “that thin” that could potentially be taught in a High School English class are John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” , Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage ( Dover Thrift) , Mark Twains “Letter’s from Earth”, CS Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters”, Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time”, Ray Bradbury’s “The Halloween Tree” or “Fahrenheit 451”, the Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce, Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol” or Nathanael Hawthornes" “The Scarlet Letter.”

“The modesty of Muhammad Ali “

Might be “Walden.”

Nothing other then as a bus driver or dishing out food in the cafeteria. That what you do with a BA in English now days. Not even a Masters helps now.

Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters fame majored in comparative Russian literature. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were dropouts.