Thousands of books, and not one of them was Anna Karenina. One copy of Crime and Punishment and the Penguin classics looked like they'd been put through the Shredder.
What's with the new Penguin Poular Classics cover design anyway? Chartreuse was last year's colour.
Anyhow, irritation can be inspirational. If we can only speak in soundbites, why can't books do it too? Especially the big, scary ones people claim they're too busy and tired to read, even if there's always time for shredding your nerves on X-Factor. And small can be beautiful. The haiku is just as beautiful a form as the epic.
So we're smashing the two together in this blog. The great classics of world literature turned into haikus. Not necessarily to tell their stories (War and Peace in 17 syllables anyone?) but more to evoke something of their spirit. The bits that might actually make you want to read them.
See what you think...
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