Literature via Tweets? What a Novel Concept

So this guy recently published a novel made up of Tweets. Specifically, he Tweeted first, then put them all together and made a book out of it.

New social media experiment? Sure. Noteworthy? Certainly. Good book, as good as the Tweet? Remains to be seen.

But it does suggest the possibility of other, more well-known books being devolved into Tweets. This would probably have worked for Dickens, who wrote a chapter at a time anyway. But just imagine the following via Twitter:

• A Tale of Two Cities: It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Tune in next week for more.
  
  
• Moby Dick: Call me Ishmael. On insane revenge mission. Seeking hearty crew and great white whale. Interested?
  
  
• War and Peace: The sheer number of Tweets would be enough to give anyone a headache just counting them all, let alone reading them all.
  
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  Crime and Punishment: Just thinking about how to condense this grim, excellently in-depth psychological drama into 140-character bursts is enough to make one want to think of something else.
  

Poems might be a bit easier:

• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways, in 140 characters or less.
  
  
• This is the way the world ends, not in fire but in Tweets.
  
  
• "The time has come," the Walrus said, "to talk of many things. Must keep it short, though. Character limit, you know."
  

Shakespeare by Tweet might be a bit exciting:

• "To be or not to be, that is the question for another Tweet."
  
  
• "Double bubble, toil and trouble. How many Tweets? More than a couple."
  

There is precedent for the Shakespeare, after a fashion. A real-life theater company just recently completed its production of Such Tweet Sorrow, a production of Romeo & Juliet modernized and presented via Twitter.

There is precedent for shortening famed works of literature, too. It's called Cliff Notes.