{"product_id":"alexander-aciman-twitterature-2009-paperback","title":"Alexander Aciman: Twitterature [2009] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eEverything from Beowulf to Bronte rewritten\/ruined in twenty Tweets or less in\u003ci\u003e Twitterature\u003c\/i\u003e, the hilarious expression of every book-lovers' fear of the digital age, by Alexander Acima and Emmett Rensin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Oedipus: PARTY IN THEBES!!! Nobody cares I killed the old dude, plus this woman is all over me. Total MILF.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Paradise Lose: OH MY GOD I'M IN HELL.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps you once asked yourself, 'What exactly is Hamlet trying to tell me? Why must he mince his words, muse in lyricism and, in short, whack about the shrub?' \u003cbr\u003eNo doubt such troubling questions would have been swiftly resolved were the Prince of Denmark a registered user on Twitter.com. This, in essence, is Twitterature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Hamlet: WFT IS POLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN???\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere you will find over sixty of the greatest works of western literature - from Beowulf to Bronte, from Kafka to Kerouac, and from Dostoevsky to Dickens - each distilled through the voice of Twitter to its purest, pithiest essence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncluding a full glossary of online acronyms and Twitterary terms to aid the amateur, Twitterature provides everything you need to master the literature of the civilized world, while relieving you of the burdensome task of reading it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Dante's Inferno: I'm havin' a midlife crisis. Lost in the woods. Shoulda brought by iPhone.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Hilarious' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Wittily irreverent, scandalous, but sure to inspire a cult following' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An irreverent, profane and sometimes brilliant collection' \u003ci\u003eReuters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The trouble with Twitter is, I think, that too many twits might make a tw*t' David Cameron \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A tool to aid the digestion of great literature' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect University of Chicago students to come up with'  Professor W J T Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin are undergraduates at the University of Chicago. Alexander's journalism has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e New York Sun \u003c\/i\u003eand Emmett is a contributor to the \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aciman, Alexander \u0026 Rensin, Emmett","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":50058861445459,"sku":"9780141047713","price":11.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50058861478227,"sku":"XV80141047713","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/aciman-alexander-rensin-emmett-alexander-aciman-twitterature-2009-paperback-60638247223635.jpg?v=1736049556","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/alexander-aciman-twitterature-2009-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}