By Alexander Aciman
ISBN-10: 0143117327
ISBN-13: 9780143117322
Hatched in a dorm room on the mind belief that's the college of Chicago, Twitterature is a hilarious and irreverent re-imagining of the classics as a sequence of 140-character tweets from the protagonist. offering a crash direction in additional than 80 of the world's best-known books, from Homer to Harry Potter, Virgil to Voltaire, Tolstoy to Twilight and Dante to The Da Vinci Code. it is the final Cliffs Notes. simply because as nice because the classics are, who has time to learn these monstrous, lengthy books anymore?
Sample tweets:
From Hamlet: WTF IS POLONIUS DOING in the back of THE CURTAIN???
From the Harry Potter sequence: Oh guy enormous event at my university this year!! PSYCHED! i am hoping no one dies this 12 months, and each yr as though through clockwork.
From The nice Gatsby: Gatsby is so emo. Who cries approximately his female friend whereas consuming breakfast...IN THE POOL?
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Ah! Spoke too soon. Gloucesterʼs ʻvile jellyʼ had to be removed. And by ʻvile jellyʼ I mean his eyeballs. Clearly the best possible solution is to run around naked on a hill in a thunderstorm. Goddamn, these winds do sorely rustle my privates. Even if my heirs werenʼt evil, dividing a major nation into several arbitrary bordering factions is a pretty bad idea to begin with, huh? This infighting has become vicious. @Kent, @Edmund,@Albany: Quit this! Too much intrigue for a confused old man! Cordelia and I captured by Edmund.
What a life. Beowulf @Eazy-B Just swam a whole river to settle a bet. Won, of course. Now this guy must sit on my horned helmet. A betʼs a bet. A faraway nation has a monster they want me to kill. They better have good wine so I can get crunk! Diet Sprite is also good. What a bad ass monster. He likes to eat dudesʼ heads. Heads! Thatʼs intense. Ah, fuck it; Iʼll deal in the morning. Iʼve gotta crash. Next morning: HOLY LOKI! Heʼs eating my companions, and not just their heads. Quick psych eval: Iʼd blame his mother for naming him Grendel?
BTW, did you get the three garden metaphors throughout my story? Beginning, Eldorado, and the End? Also, my girl hasnʼt shaved in years. Now thatʼs a garden I really gotta tend to. Garden party! Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe @HighwayToHell Science has begun to bore me. Why study it anymore? Itʼs all facts and figures, nothing that really stirs the soul, you dig? I know: Iʼll study evil instead. The occult. Sounds pretty rogue, nay? OH WOW! A DEMON. First try, pretty sweet. Seems Iʼm a very efficient witch doctor.
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