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Oct 27 2009

How many ways can we take a poke at books?

Posted by Gretchen in Foolishness, Industry, Writing, tags: , ,

There appear to be several.  At least two different examples crossed my path this week showing how literature can be condensed into a savory broth of little volume but great substance. Ok, maybe one was from the week before but still…

The most recent was a video at reuters that described how two Chicago college students are having their collected works published.  The book is titled “Twitterature”.   Each of the classic tomes included is “tweeted” in 20 “tweets” or less.  I’ve seen this before on the web  (see Book-In-A-Minute at this website) but not on twitter.

And it’s another example of using video on a website that is not YouTube.  I do like variety.   Thank you Reuters for sharing and for not embedding the commercial at the front like on your website.

Earlier there was a fabulous spoof of the Romance Genre - Regency in two minutes.  This was cause of great amounts of personal hooting and nearly caused me to pass a chicken wing through my nose.  I laughed so hard I literally cried right there in the Buffalo Wild Wings where I had my lunch.

Thank you Smart Bitches for bringing that to my attention and providing this awesome link (below).

The following link takes you to the FanFiction.Net site and straight into a spoof of a Regency Romance.  This is truly a fine bit of parody.  It manages to make fun of the genre in a smart way, and it’s absolutely accurate.

Incidentally I did see someone reading a copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies on the plane while I headed off to the KOD retreat in Albuquerque.  The reader said she was enjoying it very much.  Had made a special trip to Target to purchase for $10.00.  I didn’t bother to tell her Amazon had that price cut by $1.50-ish.  Don’t know if it applied to the edition shown below.  Probably not.  This looks to be the hard cover edition - I believe the author Seth Grahame-Smith (with Jane Austin - who got top billing) refers to this as the “Heirloom Edition”.
Author's Facebook page for the book PPZ

Author's Facebook page for the book PPZ

Have a good week…
gj

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