Everything from Beowulf to Bronte rewritten/ruined in twenty Tweets or less in "Twitterature", the hilarious expression of every book-lovers' fear of the digital age, by Alexander Acima and Emmett Rensin. From "Oedipus": Party in Thebes!!! Nobody cares I killed the old dude, plus this woman is all o[...]
Perhaps while reading Shakespeare you've asked yourself, "What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince words and muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub?" But if the Prince of Denmark had a Twitter account and an iPhone, he could tell his story in real time--and concisel[...]