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Letters | Classics in the age of Twitter: for kids who refuse to read
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Young people have almost given up reading books, at least physical ones, and are now getting their stories from Twitter and Facebook – or at least 140 characters of the story (“Almost one in three Hongkongers have not read a book for a year”, April 19).
There are a number of great stories they might miss out on, so some 140-character summaries are provided below to help them decide what stories may be worth following up on.
- Romeo and Juliet – a couple of kids in love mess up.
- Moby Dick – a dude goes fishing.
- Dracula – an old dude sucks.
- Lord of the Flies – kids don’t always play nice.
- Hamlet – every family has a few problems.
- Frankenstein – don’t do surgery at home.
- Les Misérables – a very long story about a guy who is wrongly jailed and ends up a good guy.
Tell your children the story of their lives should take more than 140 characters to tell.
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Dennis Fitzgerald, Melbourne
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