# The Digested Twenty-first Century

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- Book: [The Digested Twenty-first Century](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-crace/the-digested-twenty-first-century) ([The Digested Twenty-first Century.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-crace/the-digested-twenty-first-century.md))
- Authors: [John Crace](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-crace)
- Publisher: constable
- ISBN: 978-17-8033-858-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2014-04-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

John Crace's Digested Read first appeared in in February 2000 and has been running ever since. Each week Crace reduces a new book – anything from a Booker Prize winner to a Nigella cookery book is fair game – to 700 words in a parody of the plot, style, dialogue and themes. Or lack of them. The Digested Read has not just become an institution for readers; it is read and enjoyed by publishers and authors too. So long as it is not their book being digested. A few years ago Crace wrote Brideshead Abbreviated, A Digested Read of the 20th Century. This is the 21st Century. So far.