Breaking: Literature Is Dead
?
You’re looking at the new HarperCollins cover for Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Now, the only thing I hated more in high school than myself was a Bronte novel, but this… not just a rip-off of the Twilight books’ covers, but a special blurb mentioning that it’s Edward and Bella’s favorite book? This goes too fucking far, people. Although I’m not at all surprised to learn the two have terrible taste in literature. I imagine Jane Austen’s heroines are far too feisty and strong-minded for the undead pedophile and the emotionless, thoughtless block of concrete that is Bella. (Via Super Punch)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.