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(Although your review was good).
I mean, it's basically a book full of awful dad jokes. People love that "Shit My Dad Says" guy. Why not? The opportunity to profit off of people's baffling love for the inane is obvious.
http://twitter.com/TweetsofOld
I think I *did* buy a book that could have been made from this twitter account, back in the '70s. I guess Wisconsin Death Trip could also be a twitter feed now.
It is an endless cycle of the banal and pointless.
Cheap to make, jumps on a trend/bandwagon, and has a ready audience dumb enough to buy it.
Shakespeare, it ain't. We knew this going in. But we did try to find the funny in the history pages. You try to get laughs out of an obscure Hammurabi reference... it's no easy task.
As a Seattle native, imagine my joy at getting reviewed in The Stranger. I only wish we caught you on a less snarky day... but what am I thinking... it's THE STRANGER! You're nothing if not consistent.
Keep up the good work, and I hope you like our next one better... Historical Tweets 2: Havana Nights.
Alec McNayr
(Historical Tweets co-author)
Feel free to donate your copy to me, Paul. If real tweets were like these historical tweets, then maybe Twitter wouldn't suck so much.