{"id":4681,"date":"2010-08-22T17:32:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T00:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=4681"},"modified":"2010-08-22T17:32:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T00:32:58","slug":"twitterature-the-worlds-greatest-books-in-twenty-tweets-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2010\/08\/22\/twitterature-the-worlds-greatest-books-in-twenty-tweets-or-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitterature: The World&#8217;s Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-4681\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Twitterature-Worlds-Greatest-Twenty-Tweets\/dp\/0143117327%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJ575TFCTD2TUN5TQ%26tag%3Dalnathnuse-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0143117327\">Twitterature: The World&#8217;s Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong><a id=\"contributorNameTrigger1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Alexander-Aciman\/e\/B002R0B33Y\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\">Alexander Aciman<\/a>,      <a id=\"contributorNameTrigger2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Emmett-Rensin\/e\/B002T0JQOK\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_2\">Emmett Rensin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback:<\/strong> 224 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Penguin (Non-Classics); 1 edition (December 29, 2009)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language:<\/strong> English<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-10:<\/strong> 0143117327<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN-13:<\/strong> 978-0143117322<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I saw this book while browsing at Vroman&#8217;s Bookstore in Pasadina and had to have it. It&#8217;s hilarious!<\/p>\n<p>For example, the last tweet for Paradise Lost:<\/p>\n<p><em>Beelzebub isn&#8217;t what I want. Stop crying! I didn&#8217;t cry when I got kicked out of heaven and lost Parad&#8211; I FOUND A NAME FOR MY MEMOIRS!!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and MacBeth:<\/p>\n<p><em>@LadyMac: THERE&#8217;S NOTHING ON YOUR HANDS, YOU&#8217;VE WASHED THEM 100 TIMES ALREADY!!!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ender&#8217;s Game gets the tweetment:<\/p>\n<p>T<em>he only way to repent for my crime is to tell the aliens&#8217; story. I will become the tweeter for the dead. Also, I finally hit puberty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And the only one for On the Road:<\/p>\n<p>F<em>or TWITTERATURE of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, please see On the Road by Jack Kerouac.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And, especially for lovers of Ulysses:<\/p>\n<p><em>Whose idea was it to limit tweets to 140 characters, anyway? We really do live in a time of brevity<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you have read most of the classics and want to have a fun cheap thrill, go get this book!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-4681\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 4681);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-4681\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-4681\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Twitterature: The World&#8217;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&#8217;s Bookstore in Pasadina and had to have it. It&#8217;s hilarious! For example, the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-1dv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}