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OMG Did u Rd tht Nvel?
If u cn rd ths, u can rd ths nvel:
A novel whose narrative consists entirely of mobile phone text messages has been published in Finland.
"The Last Messages" tells the story of a fictitious information-technology executive in Finland who resigns from his job and travels throughout Europe and India, keeping in touch with his friends and relatives only through text messages.
His messages, and the replies — roughly 1,000 altogether — are listed in chronological order in the 332-page novel written by Finnish author Hannu Luntiala. The texts are rife with grammatical errors and abbreviations commonly used in regular SMS traffic.
Let me just say, OMG. If I had to read an entire novel of text messages, I might actually bleed from the eyeballs. I'm not saying the novel might not have a great story or intriguing characters -- maybe it does. But all the grammatical shortcuts use making text messages kind of give me the hives as it is. Reading a whole novel of them --- jeez. No. Just, no.
Would you read an entire novel made out of text messages?
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I wouldn't read a book like that even if someone were pointing a gun at my head.
Generally, I hate novels that are nothing more than strings of newspaper articles, letters, or conversation transcripts. But at least they're readable. Text messages, too often, aren't.
I wouldn't even pick it up in a book store to attempt a single chapter!
Patrick -
Dear John,
ummmm..Naaaaa!:0
You're right!
(tries to picture Carly and Mavarin reading that) Ugh!:(
natalie -
No. Nuff said.
be well,
Dawn -
You have to read it with one hand, though...
2/18/07 1:08 AM