Jacket Copy: Hatched in a dorm room by two freshmen at the University of Chicago, Twitterature is a hilarious and irreverent reimagining of the classics as a series of 140-character tweets from the protagonist. Providing a crash course in more than 80 of the world's best-known books, from Homer to Harry Potter, Virgil to Voltaire, Tolstoy to Twilight, and Dante to the Da Vinci Code, it's the ultimate Cliffs Notes. Because as great as the classics are, who has time to read those big, long books anymore?
Highlights:
The Metamorphosis- Kafka: I curse the day I inexplicably transformed into a gigantic, six-legged metaphor!
Harry Potter 5: I AM UNDERGOING A LOT OF ANGST RIGHT NOW. And this Asian girl is giving me a major hard-on. Blue balls suck. No magic potion for it either
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man- Joyce: I'm in college. Cool. But I live at home with my mom. That doesn't make me a tool does it? Nah, I'm totally cool. Look, I've got this cool tweed hat. Yeah, I'm cool. Totally.
The Crying of Lot 49- Pynchon: At the theater. The play also mentions the Tristero thing. Talked to this dilettante director in the shower. He's totally DTF.
The Sound and the Fury- Faulkner: Why won't that watch stop ticking? Also, the image of other men's dicks in my sister plagues me. So many dicks in my dear, dear sister.
This sounds like a must read. I will be looking for it when I get back to the states. I especially like the Sound and the Fury tweet.
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