Sunday, January 28, 2007

A Complete Book Written By Text Messaging

Posted in Tech Corner by Paul Jacob on January 28th, 2007

Hannu Luntiala, author of "The Last Message"This century has been named the age of technology or even the more famous  term Digital Age by many note worthy people. We have been hearing about many strange events taking place due to all the technology available today.

A recent article published by CNN about a novel written completely by text messaging caught my attention. The novel is titled “The Last Message” and it’s about an IT excutive who resigns his job in Finland to travel throughtout europe and India. All throughout his journey he keeps in touch with his family with only one means of communication which is text messaging.

The novel is completely fictional but you have to give the author credit for his orginality. All the messages and replies total to about 1,000 - are listed chronologically in a 332-page novel written by Hannu Luntiala. Its interesting to note that even the common abbreviations used in texting are included in the novel.

Sari Havukainen, spokeswoman at Finnish publishing house Tammi, said the company is considering translating the book into other languages.

All those text messages must of cost him a substancial amount but still a remarkable idea none the less. I am sure many of the older readers might find it harder to comprehend the text used in the novel but the young tech crowd will surely find it interesting.


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2 Comments »

  1. Cell Geek said,

    February 13, 2007 @ 9:49 am

    I wonder if the novel ends with the characters getting their cell phone bill for all those text messages.

  2. Paul Jacob said,

    February 15, 2007 @ 7:27 am

    I wouldn’t be suprised if the characters have a heart attack at that moment,LOL.:)

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