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Ophelia Joined The Group Maidens Who Don't Float
Sarah Schmelling
Classic Lit Signs On To Facebook
Plume
September 2009
On Sale: August 25, 2009
288 pages ISBN: 0452295734 EAN: 9780452295735 Paperback
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Humor
In the bestselling tradition of Stuff White People
Like and I Can Has Cheezburger?, the next online
humor sensation makes the leap to book form
When
humorist Sarah Schmelling transformed Hamlet into a
Facebook news feed, it launched the next big humor
trend-Facebook lit. This hilarious book is the first to
bring more than fifty authors and stories from classic
literature back to life and online. Schmelling uses the
conventions of social networking-profile pages, status
updates, news feeds, and applications-to retell everything
from The Odyssey to The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn to Lolita.
Every day 150 million
active users of Facebook log on to reconnect with old
classmates, add pictures, share quizzes, and post news
stories, notes, and videos. In Schmelling-s network, Satan
and Beelzebub connect using the fiend finder, Don
Quixote vows vengeance against Superpoke, Jane Eyre listens
to Jay-Z-s -Hard-Knock Life- on repeat, Ernest Hemingway
completes the -Are you a real man?- quiz, and Oedipus works
on his family tree.
A loving spoof of the
most-trafficked social networking website in the world and a
playful game of literary who-s who, Ophelia Joined the
Group Maidens Who Don-t Float will have book lovers and
Facebook addicts alike twittering with joy.
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