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'Hilarious' -- Sunday Times (Sunday Times )
Wittily irreverent, scandalous, but sure to inspire a cult following -- Daily Mail (Daily Mail )
'An irreverent, profane and sometimes brilliant collection' -- Reuters (Reuters )
'The trouble with Twitter is, I think, that too many twits might make a tw*t' -- David Cameron (David Cameron )
'This is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect University of Chicago students to come up with' -- Professor W J T Mitchell (Professor W J T Mitchell )
'A tool to aid the digestion of great literature' -- Guardian (Guardian )
Wittily irreverent, scandalous, but sure to inspire a cult following -- Daily Mail (Daily Mail )
'An irreverent, profane and sometimes brilliant collection' -- Reuters (Reuters )
'The trouble with Twitter is, I think, that too many twits might make a tw*t' -- David Cameron (David Cameron )
'This is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect University of Chicago students to come up with' -- Professor W J T Mitchell (Professor W J T Mitchell )
'A tool to aid the digestion of great literature' -- Guardian (Guardian )
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From Oedipus: PARTY IN THEBES!!! Nobody cares I killed that old dude, plus this woman is all over me. Total MILF.
From Paradise Lost: OH MY GOD I'M IN HELL.
Perhaps you once asked yourself, 'What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub?' No doubt such questions would have been swiftly resolved were the Prince of Denmark a registered user on Twitter.com. This, in essence, is Twitterature.
From Hamlet: WTF IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN???
Here are over 60 of the greatest works of literature - from Beowulf to Bronte, Kafka to Kerouac, Dostoevsky to Dickens - distilled in the voice of Twitter to their pithiest essence, providing everything you need to master the literature of the civilised world, while relieving you of the task of reading it.
From Dante's Inferno: I'm havin a midlife crisis. Lost in the woods. Shoulda brought my iPhone.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Just bought this as a Christmas present & may need to buy a second copy.
This does what it says on the cover with sharp perception and humour.
As a once-keen reader I tend to wait for the film or TV programme now, but this captures the essence of great works of literature succinctly. You need to know a bit about classical and 20thC literature to get the jokes - it's also an educational guide for those who think only birds tweet. I'd recommend it to my mother's writing group. A great Christmas game would be reading the first lines & others guessing the book.
Last book that made me ROFL was Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel. The film was tosh.
This does what it says on the cover with sharp perception and humour.
As a once-keen reader I tend to wait for the film or TV programme now, but this captures the essence of great works of literature succinctly. You need to know a bit about classical and 20thC literature to get the jokes - it's also an educational guide for those who think only birds tweet. I'd recommend it to my mother's writing group. A great Christmas game would be reading the first lines & others guessing the book.
Last book that made me ROFL was Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel. The film was tosh.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
While I love the idea of this book, I was sorely disappointed by what I actually read. The twitter feed names are often quite humorous, and some of the tweets themselves are good, but on the whole the authors fail to properly capture the right style of either the author or the character tweeting. It's more their versions of the stories rather than the actual stories in twitter form. Love the idea, hate the execution.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The author had a good idea, but failed to deliver. The books all seem to be in the same 'voice', and this becomes tirsome after a while. There is no attempt to capture the essence of each author. Furthermore, the 'tweets' are not tweety enough. Twitter involves far more acronyms, text speak and non-standard prose that this books give- it is merely a collection of sentences limited to 140 characters.
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Pretty funny
I bought this for my boyfriend and he seems to be getting a fair amount of enjoyment out of it! It's particularly funny if you've actually read the books that are parodied.
Published 5 months ago by Laura
Quite poor, do pass
While it is an interesting concept to reduce works of literature to a pithy line, this book does not achieve that. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Arnold Magnet
Don't Be A Twit
Nice idea, good cover design, full-marks for cashing in on the Twitter Zeitgeist, but in the end this is nothing more than a fad cash-in book that I was silly enough to fall for... Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2010 by The Kinniburgh Kid
Post-modern literature for people in a rush?
I had noticed novels got shorter and shorter chapters as time goes by.
Now, with two-line Twitter-formatted paragraphs, there is no excuse for not reading anymore, and... Read more
Now, with two-line Twitter-formatted paragraphs, there is no excuse for not reading anymore, and... Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2010 by Artsreadings
IF THIS WAS A CD IT WOULD HAVE A WARNING ON THE COVER!
Fantastic concept, but the book is spoilt for me by the number of swear words used, to the point where they detract from an otherwise witty and humorous work. Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2009 by Treacle
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