/lit/ - Literature

Say what you will, but I think it could be useful for a little kid as long as he's reading the actual play and this book simultaneously.

>>6697143
I'd say no, because it creates this expectation that classics are super easy to read, and many of them aren't. I think one of the main problems of the internet is it teaches people to demand content in tiny chunks, and it decreases their capacity to deal with larger and more dense pieces of content, literary and otherwise. So no, this isn't so much a good gateway to classics as an attempt to capitalize on the fact that kids on the internet have short attention spans, but also still recognize on some level the value of reading literature.

>>6697143
go hard or go home nigga

>>6697148
I have no words for this

>>6697143
no

schools take this approach and no one gives a fuck about what they are reading

you must show them the value of literature and let them read on their own

>>6697325
Kids, even in high school, really don't grasp the idea of deep themes, which is why they don't "get" literature, or storytelling in general. All they understand in the surface action, and stuff like OP posted almost seems designed to make sure that's all they'll get.

>the author is an american woman

I'm not
Fucking
Surprised

It's not.

But buy it, scan it and upload anyway, I want to laugh at something.

>>6697148
oh my god

>>6697401
Why are you acting like you're not a teenager? You're on 4chan.

>>6697420
>William Shakespeare
>an american woman
You wot m8?

>>6697148
>>6697170
Someone should go to prison for this.

>>6697143
who cares? nobody is going to buy this except people like /lit/ that want to laugh at it, as a novelty. anybody actually interested in shakespeare will get an actual edition, and kids that want an easy read of shakespeare will just use sparknotes. the no fear shakespeare books are more cancerous than these are, yet I don't see daily threads about those.

I'd rather not have ironic millennial youth getting into classics.

I want the creators to die a slow and painful death.

>>6697143
>>6697148
>>6697867

>>6697867
for u

>>6697867
>More than one person was involved in the production of this

There are no images to show my true level of rage now.

>>6697754
i wish i had a pencil for something to do with this when it shows up, i'd have a truckload of wood

>>6697143
anything mentioning classics gets someone interested in the classics.

As banal as it sounds the hype from the Divine Comedy video game got me to read the book after I looked into it.

>>6697148
>>6697867

Welp. That does it. No note necessary. I'm hanging myself. Goodbye, /lit/

This is exactly what writers should be doing- whatever they can to extort money out of this retarded population.

You think your work will improve humanity as a whole? You make me laugh.

You should see this and laugh with glee, knowing that clueless plebs got fucked again for their dollars.

>>6698223
Haha, I know, right?

We're such badasses for being smarter than those illiterate masses

Were you introduced or drawn to it? The answer speaks for itself.

>>6697143

I can't speak for other bookstores but at the one I work at we have mercifully not sold a single copy and it's been on the shelf for about a month.

Well, what about this?
http://campusreform.org/?ID=6596

>>6698248
You know your book is bad if a copy has not been sold for as long as its been released.

>>6698248
so >>6697792 is right. lit is just being a bunch of babies. muh sacred shakespeare

>With a [blow a kiss], I [shocked].

What

>>6697420
but brett is a man's name

funny, contemporary idea that will fade into obscurity leaving jealous people butthurt. Same w/ zombie jane auesten etc. Dumb idea, brilliant timing

>>6697867
>This is some Cain and Abel shit here.

wow. I thought this was for kids

>>6697792
out of curiosity what's wrong with no fear shakespeare? you know that it presents the original text side by side with the modern version, right?

>>6697148

I didn't really have a big issue with the idea but this is just terrible execution.

anything that gets young people reading can't be a bad thing

This is the end-game of you post-modernists.

You've made your bed, now lie in it your losers.

>>6699875
Just like Harry Potter, John Green books, Twilight, and 50 Shades right?

Pffftttthahaha

>>6697143
>>6697148

>>6699875


But this book does the exact opposite. It cuts 90% of the content, and then removes half the words in favor of images.

>>6697199

This. The internet causes people, and especially the younger generations, to demand every form of entertainment in bite-sized chunks. This really does alter your attention span, and having an entire generation with a 1 minute attention span is not a good thing.

>>6697148
>>6697143
Just imagine. Someone actually took a time to rewrite the whole book and added emoticons for each phrase.

>>6697148
>yeah, this looks okay
>off to the printer's
How.

>>6699936
Post-modernism isn't an ideological movement, but merely a perspective for describing the current state of society. This book basically proves the post-modernists right, but that doesn't mean any of them like it.

>>6697148

>>6700071
>Post-modernism isn't an ideological movement