• Title: Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less
• Author: Alexander Aciman, Emmett Rensin
• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); 1 edition (December 29, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0143117327
• ISBN-13: 978-0143117322

I saw this book while browsing at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadina and had to have it. It’s hilarious!

For example, the last tweet for Paradise Lost:

Beelzebub isn’t what I want. Stop crying! I didn’t cry when I got kicked out of heaven and lost Parad– I FOUND A NAME FOR MY MEMOIRS!!!

and MacBeth:

@LadyMac: THERE’S NOTHING ON YOUR HANDS, YOU’VE WASHED THEM 100 TIMES ALREADY!!!!

Ender’s Game gets the tweetment:

The only way to repent for my crime is to tell the aliens’ story. I will become the tweeter for the dead. Also, I finally hit puberty.

And the only one for On the Road:

For TWITTERATURE of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, please see On the Road by Jack Kerouac.

And, especially for lovers of Ulysses:

Whose idea was it to limit tweets to 140 characters, anyway? We really do live in a time of brevity

If you have read most of the classics and want to have a fun cheap thrill, go get this book!