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Too funny

Posted by Robin Abrahams December 16, 2008 06:46 AM

This is too amusing--"Pride and Prejudice" reconceived as Facebook entries. Better than Cliffs Notes!

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... and so on. Go read it all.

Anyone feeling adventurous enough to give "Middlemarch" the same treatment?


UPDATE: Fellow Globe writer Ellen Freeman Roth sends me more: Facebook "Hamlet" (I particularly like: "Polonius thinks this curtain looks like a good thing to hide behind/Polonius is no longer online") and World War II as a Real Time Strategy game.

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