26-04-2019, 06:42 AM
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Perhaps while reading Shakespeare you've asked yourself, <I>What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince words and muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub?</I> But if the Prince of Denmark had a Twitter account and an iPhone, he could tell his story in real time—and concisely! Hence the genius of <I>Twitterature</I>.Hatched in a dorm room at the brain trust that is the University of Chicago, <I>Twitterature</I> is a hilarious and irreverent re-imagining of the classics as a series of 140-character tweets from the protagonist. Providing a crash course in more than eighty of the world's best-known books, from Homer to Harry Potter, Virgil to Voltaire, Tolstoy to <I>Twilight</I> and Dante to <I>The Da Vinci Code</I>. It's the ultimate Cliffs Notes. Because as great as the classics are, who has time to read those big, long books anymore?<B>Sample tweets:</B>From <I><B>Hamlet</B>: WTF IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN??? </I>From the...
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