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sheela110 's review for:
Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter
by Alexander Aciman, Emmett Rensin
I've granted one-star to this book because the concept is clever. Taking classic books and making them into 140-character tweets (IN THEORY) is a brilliant idea, but in actuality, authors such as Jane Austen and J.D. Salinger are rolling in their graves. The whole book just seemed like it came to fruition as part of an "end of the year school assignment" and to think some publisher thought it would be fantastic to bring it to publication...well, he/she should be fired. This was an abomination to all great literature! And I'm not even a literary freak. In fact, it made me feel pretty bad about myself for not having read so many of the classic books that have been tweet-ified.
I understand the authors were trying to be facetious, and facetious (borderline obnoxious) they were! I think all would have been forgiven if the tweets were actually funny, but they weren't.
I understand the authors were trying to be facetious, and facetious (borderline obnoxious) they were! I think all would have been forgiven if the tweets were actually funny, but they weren't.