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Toadman: Tweeting ‘Pride & Prejudice’

Posted by DFO

May 8, 2009 6:06 a.m. • 9 comments

Toadman: As for lengthy posts, I’m a violator of this as well (as this very post exemplifies). Why am I wordy? I dunno. Still, I also tweet…though I don’t do opinion tweeting. This morning I tweeted the entire storyline of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” in under 140 characters…so you see, I do have the ability to be concise…but here, I can’t seem to stop blathering on about nothing….SOMEONE STOP ME PLEASE!

Toad’s “Pride and Prejudice” tweet: “Pride and Prejudice: Darcey bastard. Love him. Darcey lie. Love him more. Darcey hero. Hate him. Darcey has huge house. Love him…duh.”

Question: Can you Tweet your favorite book in 100 words or less?

Nine comments on this post so far. Add yours!

marmitetoasty on May 08 at 6:14 a.m.
I have no idea what tweeter is……… but I do know I tend to waffle on a lot on here and on other blobs, I really should learn to just try and do a tiny short comment lol…

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BethB on May 08 at 6:28 a.m.
Do you mean words or characters?
JeanieSpokane on May 08 at 12:16 p.m.
Gone With the Wind.

Scarlett O’Hara grows up a very self-centered narcissistic Southern Belle who snipes through two wimpy husbands, until finally meeting her match in Rhett Butler. She’s a terrible mother but she manages to have four children, two of whom died. Rhett is besotted with her but finally leaves her with “My dear, I don’t give a damn” whereupon she returns to her childhood homestead, her one true love, Tara, and waits for Rhett to come back to her, but that will never happen; her final words are “After all, tomorrow is another day.”

96 words
nic on May 08 at 1:50 p.m.
The Descent by Jeff Long

Deep inter-connecting caves discovered under earth surface inhabited by demonish creatures. World wages subterranean war Religious zealots search for Satan and Corporate America tries to take over all fail miserably.

30 words (unfortunately, I exceeded the character limit for Twitter)
Nick_Adams on May 08 at 4:29 p.m.
The Stand by Stephen King: Government-engineered Superflu wipes out almost everyone. US survivors divide into good and bad. Good guys go to Vegas and beat the house. 139 characters.

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.