Teenage dreams so hard to eat:

What if we rewrote every novel into a flash fiction piece? Imagine the Fountainhead in two to three pages. Ayn Rand would be a god if she could get the same amount of information down in a novella, let alone a short story, let alone a lightning-short short story. Ulysses made into a short blurb. How about non-fiction. Biographies slashed and diced until you have several pages that illustrate so and so's life even better than the previous 600 paged monster it was before. Tolstoy, eat your heart out. Your books would suffer the same fate. Or would it really be an improvement?