Book Review: Twitterature

Title	Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less
Author Rensin, Emmett	Alexander Aciman
Rating
Tags	fiction, literature, great books, twitter, tweets, humor
	Great concept! Sixty great works of literature retold in twenty tweets or less - a tweet is a computer message of 140 characters or less. It is a tiny book, but has the full Penguin Classic treatment. You know this book isn't the usual Penguin Classic, though, by the quote at the bottom of the cover: "The classics are so last century" - Guardian. The works turned into tweets include lots of Shakespeare, some Austen, several of the Russian classics, various Brontes, Homer, Virgil, Dante, Cervantes, and so on. Examples include: from Hamlet - "WTF is Polonius doing behind the curtain!" From Dante's Inferno: "I'm havin' a midlife crisis. Lost in the woods. Shoulda brought my iPhone". Lots of amusing stuff. The editors are 19, so there is some level of immaturity, too much cuss words, scatalogical references, and so on. Overall, pretty darn funny. The only one I really don't like and thought was unfair to the original was the Sherlock Holmes one, which is all a series of cocaine jokes. Thanks to Peter for the great Yule gift!
	Author – Rensin, Emmett
Publication	Penguin (Non-Classics) (2009), Edition: 1, Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date	2009
ISBN	0143117327 / 9780143117322

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