You can be the hero!
Do you want to be the hero who gets the girl of his dreams? Do you want to be the princess who is saved by the handsome prince? Would you like to travel to treasure island to find the hidden gold of Captain Flint, or rather get stranded on an uninhabited island like Robinson Crusoe? Would you like to be Gretel who pushed the wicked witch in the oven to save Hansel? And do you want to live happily ever after?
It's possible with Tweak-a-Book
Tweak-a-Book is a clever script to replace one or more names in a book or story. You could be Juliet and your boyfriend could be Romeo. Try it and enjoy reading your own story.
The following texts are available for tweaking. Click on a link to tweak the book or fairytale or click to see the original version of the text.
Books:
Pinocchio, by C. Collodi - Tweak it - Read original
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen - Tweak it - Read original
Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle - Tweak it - Read original
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe - Tweak it - Read original
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare - Tweak it - Read original
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Tweak it - Read original
The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Tweak it - Read original
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson - Tweak it - Read original
Fairytales:
Ashputtel, by The Brothers Grimm (Ashputtel = Cinderella) - Tweak it - Read original
Hansel and Gretel, by The Brothers Grimm - Tweak it - Read original
Little Red-Cap, by The Brothers Grimm - Tweak it - Read original
Rapunzel, by The Brothers Grimm - Tweak it - Read original
Rumpelstiltskin, by The Brothers Grimm - Tweak it - Read original
Snowdrop, by The Brothers Grimm (Snowdrop = Snow White) - Tweak it - Read original
Snow-white and Rose-red, by The Brothers Grimm - Tweak it - Read original
The Frog Prince, by The Brothers Grimm - Tweak it - Read original
Tom Thumb, by The Brothers Grimm - Tweak it - Read original
The books and stories that can be tweaked are all part of the Public Domain. They are not copyrighted and form a kind of common cultural or intellectual heritage. Copyright laws differ from country to country but in many cases a book is copyrighted during the life of the author plus an extra 50 or 70 years. That's why most books in the Public Domain are older "classics".
Some proverbs and quotes
If you like reading and rereading your favorite books you will probably appreciate the following quotes about books and reading. Please send us more book quotes to add to this list.
- I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.(William Lyon Phelps)
- Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. (Alan Bennett)
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. (Mark Twain)
- If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. (Toni Morrison)
- I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book. (Groucho Marx)
- You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. (Paul Sweeney)
- Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. (Abraham Lincoln)
- Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. (James Russell Lowell)
- When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. (Clifton Fadiman)
- To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one. (Chinese Saying)
- "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread. (Franois Mauriac)
- A book is a gift you can open again and again. (Garrison Keillor)