-----So, it's come to this, huh? What the hell!?! Have we neglected reading NORMAL Cliff's Notes, to saying 'Fuck it, I'm renting them from Blockbuster?' Please tell me I'm DREAMING!!! Is this the way of today's slacker? Whatever happened to beginning book the night before the exam? Passing out on page 12? Waking up, knowing you're fucked? Passing the test with a 'D?'
-----This particular film version of 'LORD OF THE FLIES' pales (and I mean Silas from 'The Da Vinci Code') in comparison to the '63 version. Oh, I know, it's in black and white, and the kids are whinny English fucks...but the central theme, from the NOVEL by William Golding, remains true and unscathed. I'm not so sure one's GPA will reap the same benefits. Of course, if someone's at WAL-MART buying a Cliff's Notes study DVD, his GPA is probably shit.
According to wikiPedia, Cliff's Notes began in a Nebraska bookstore, when in 1958, Clifton Hillegass met a Canadian who owned a group of study guides, Coles Notes. 'B.L.A.M.E. C.A.N.A.D.A.'
-----Cliff adapted the idea for the States, and his idea really took off. American students like short cuts, apparently. Like all successful businessmen, Hillegass SOLD OUT in 2001 to John Wiley & Sons, a 1.2 billion dollar publishing company, known for such great literary classics as 'Webster's New World' dictionaries, Betty Crocker cookbooks, and the '...For Dummies' series.
-----Is it too late for the marketing team to re-package this mind-raping product as 'READING...FOR DUMMIES?'
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