Literature Teeters on the Edge of a 'Gr8 Fall'

aicrules writes "Yahoo news is reporting that the great works of literature often read and discussed by the brighter of our up-and-comers could be the latest victim of reaching the lowest common denominator at the potential expense of everyone. The article describes the efforts of Dot Mobile to make such literary masterpieces as Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet more accessible. From the article, 'We are confident that our version of 'text' books will genuinely help thousands of students remember key plots and quotes, and raise up educational standards rather than decrease levels of literacy,'"

Comments

Teeters on the edge?

[BushCheney08]

And this mindlessness is exactly the sort of thing that will push it over...

Here's a message for them: Lrn2RdFlBks. UGtMrFrmIt.

r0m30, r0m30

[Anonymous Coward]

wtf wallhax0r cl4n?

Re:Remember Hamlet in 15 minutes?

[LordSnooty]

Surely it's

if ( $question = ( 2B || !(2B) ) ) {
if ($mind[SlingsArrows] > $mind[TakeArms]) {
die()
sleep()
}
}

Re:It's done in music already.

[mopslik]

...why not a dumbed down Jane Austen or Dostoyevsky on your bookshelf?

I guess Dostoevsky's The Idiot will be appropriately titled.

Re:Remember Hamlet in 15 minutes?

[Keith Russell]

You can not truly appreciate Shakespeare until you've read him in the original COBOL.

Re:Remember Hamlet in 15 minutes?

[OakDragon]

I prefer "Cliff Notes for Cliff Notes."

For example, "The Bible:"

God creates man, then gets pissed at everything man does.

Credit where credit is due, I think I say that in the National Lampoon.