Tuesday
Mar082011
It started with Anna Karenina
The idea for this book came from a cartoon of Anna Karenina at the station, adding her thoughts to Twitter. “Finally split with Vronsky, not sure what to do next.”
It struck me that, as Karenina would doubtless have the sort of friends who sit on Twitter all day long, she would have got a reply before the luggage train which killed her came into the station. Tolstoy makes clear that her jump under the train was a spur of the moment decision. If she had received a message along the lines of
“@annakarenin Come round to mine and sink bottle red wine. Beats killing yourself over a idiot in a Cossack outfit.”
a sad ending would be avoided.
But why just one? Surely the communications technologies developed in the last few years could have saved us from many tragedies.
“@annakarenin Come round to mine and sink bottle red wine. Beats killing yourself over a idiot in a Cossack outfit.”
a sad ending would be avoided.
But why just one? Surely the communications technologies developed in the last few years could have saved us from many tragedies.
What would have happened to Tess or Emma if they had been able to use a mobile phone? Soon I had updated sixty six famous plots into the Facebook age.
Update on Friday, January 20, 2012 at 04:50AM by
Mark Needham
Mark Needham
66 Plots Updated is now available as an ebook for Kindle on both Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk
Each month I run promotional days on which one or other part is given away free.
FREE on April 7th and 8th 66 Plots Updated - Part 1 on Amazon.com
FREE on April 9th 66 Plots Updated - Part 2 on Amazon.com and on Amazon.co.uk
At the moment there is no physical edition of the book, or ebooks for Nook or Kobo.