If editors had contests, one of them might be, "How concise can you make this sentence/paragraph/novel?" In other words, how few words can you boil a concept down into while still retaining its essential meaning? Seventeen? How about twelve? FOUR! We have a winner!
OK, so it's not THAT exciting. You won't be seeing an Extreme Editing reality TV competition anytime soon.
But I have to give props to Better Book Titles for making it fun (and with picture goodness). In their own words:
This blog is for people who do not have thousands of hours to read book reviews or blurbs or first sentences. I will cut through all the cryptic crap, and give you the meat of the story in one condensed image. Now you can read the greatest literary works of all time in mere seconds!
For example, the classic Charlotte's Web was condensed to: "Spiders Make Great Publicists." Love it.
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