Customer Reviews

Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less

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The only value in this work is the titles of the classical works of Literature. It's always nice to see them.
The comments are meant to be clever and amusing. I found them to be neither. I did however find them to be vulgar, stupid and degrading.
There is no effort on the part of the twitterers to catch in any way the style and tone, the feeling of any of these classic works.
The concept 'rip-off' comes to mind.

The IDEA behind this book is great. The execution, however, is terrible. To make up for the lack of relevant or funny content, the authors threw in as many dirty words as possible. I do not recommend this book. However, I do recommend the idea to someone who can write it better. If it were a clean book (and if the content were a little more relevant to the actual plots, but still in a funny way), the authors would make much more money.

Let's get one thing straight: This is utter, blatant satire. SATIRE. That means that the authors are trying to poke fun at the foundation that literature is based on. Since I'm in high school, I've read quite a few of the classics and I must say that I really did dislike some of them. The authors are geniuses to evoke laughter as well as horror as well as a sense of brilliance for doing this. I'm not saying that this book will be a replacement for any of the books it degrades, but it's a fine way to supplement your knowledge of classic literature in a humorous (if vulgar) fashion.

I can imagine that the audience most offended by this book would be those that have enjoyed these classics for decades/ does not know how twitter works. I've shown this to a few English teachers and they have laughed at seeing their favorites being deconstructed in a mere 1400 or so characters (most books being 10-20 tweets, 140 characters max.)

Just a quick complaint: The book does go into vulgar territory, so much that one could deduce that a couple of college students wrote this as a way to pass time. With that said, carry an open mind, read a "twitterized" passage and ROFL until morning.

While it may be an indication that conventional learning has gone the way of the dodo, it's also a refreshing take on centuries of books.

Terribly dull and not worth the paper that it's printed on. Best left to twitter itself.

The problem with twitterature is that while it would've made a fantastic blog post (or series thereof), as a book it's simply trying too hard, and after a while, you realize there's better humor online, for free.

Someone told me, they hoped this book would make me laugh, cry, smirk and at times feel somewhat scandalized.
Oh my!

Well, it did. Great job guys, it was what it was meant to be, a ROFL little book.

Dennis Keith

This is the beginning of the degradation of not only the most important, and influential pieces of history: but a parody on itself as the degradation of modern mankind.


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