Prequels that never were.

[Roquefort Raider]

Prequels have been part of our cultural landscape recently. Here's where we get the chance to imagine as-yet unwritten prequels to well-known books! (Obviously, not all prequels deserve to see the light of day...)

And now to begin...


H. G. Wells' Chamberlain goes to Mars

Hemingway's The middle-aged man and the sea

Homer's The Helenad: Helen's dating days

The Bible's 10 minutes before there was light.

J. Fennimore Cooper's Next-to-last of the Mohicans

H. Melville's The misadventures of Ishmaël on a farm, his dealings with the deacon's daughter, and the reasons that prompted him to take to sea.


Let's hear some more ideas!

[Donald M.]

George Orwell's 1983

Franz Kafka's The Rather Dull Life and Times of Gregor Samsa, Travelling Salesman, Prior to His Becoming a Large Insect

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Pretty Good Gatsby

Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in Connecticut

[Buzz Dixon]

The Autobiography of Malcom IX

Catch 17*

Often a Pretty Good Idea

















*...which actually was the original title of Catch 22...

[Roquefort Raider]

Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in Connecticut

The Autobiography of Malcom IX

Those two had me laughing out loud!!! Good work, gentlemen!

[Puma]

Jane Austen's Stuck-up and Snooty
Dicken's Mediocre Anticipation

[Aaron Kashtan]

Salman Rushdie, 11:00's Children
Eugene O'Neill, Long Morning's Journey into Afternoon
Charles Dickens, The New Curiosity Shop
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Person Writes to the Colonel
James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Toddler

[Jonathan Bogart]

Oh, this is a good thread.


Paul Auster's New Amsterdam Trilogy
Thomas Pynchon's A. through U.
William Shakepeare's An Late Spring Day's Dream
Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Visited
Willa Cather's Life Goes On for the Archbishop
Thomas Hardy's Right There In the Madding Crowd
Thornton Wilder's Our Trading Post
Joseph Conrad's Plain Mr. Jim
E. M. Forster's Howards Beginning
Alexander Solzhynetsin's The Previous Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Gustave Flaubert's Madamoiselle Bovary
Thomas Mann's Life in Venice
Ring Lardner's You Haven't Yet Met Me, Al

Oh, man, this could go on forever.

[Buzz Dixon]

Ian Flemming Division:

INTERN NO
FROM LITHUANIA WITH AFFECTION
THE BOY WITH THE SILVER CAP PISTOL
YOU ONLY DIE ONCE
ON HIS MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (think about it...)
QUADROKITTY
CUBIC ZIRCONIUMS HAVE A LIFETIME GUARANTEE
THE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE WHO LIKED ME
CASINO LE BIG MAC
LIGHTNINGSOCKHOP

[Reptisaurus!]

UNCLE TOM'S FOUNDATION AND HALF OF UNCLE TOM'S FLOORBOARDS

I SURE HOPE THERE AREN'T ANOTHER FIFTY YEARS OF SOLITUDE, I'M FREAKIN' BORED

CONCEPTION OF A SALESMAN

ON WALDEN PUDDLE

THE THREE FOOT DEEP HOLE or NOTES FROM THE HALF-WAY UNDERGROUND

BABY DICK "There! Off the Prow! It's the moderately sized white whale I've been searching for these past 7 months!"

THE OILING OF THE SCREW

[sun tzu]

C.S.Lewis's "The Cub, the Apprentice Witch and the Furniture Shop".

[Michael P]

William Faulkner's As I Went About My Day With A Mild Cough
Albert Camus' The Bug That Went Around The Office For A Couple Days
Mark Twain's The Innocents Packing
Erich Remarque's Pretty Noisy On The Western Front
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Four
Nordhoff and Hall's Mild Insubordination on the Bounty
Luo Guanzhong's Awkward First Date of the Three Kingdoms

[Gordon Smith]

Thomas Harris' Mewling of the Lambs.

[Expletive Deleted]

Lewis Carroll's ALICE IN THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE.

D.H. Lawrence's LADY CHATTERLY'S ATTRACTIVE MALE ACQUAINTANCE.

Edgar Allen Poe's THE HALF-BOTTLE OF AMONTILLADO.

Jack London's THE VOICEMAIL OF THE WILD.

Jules Verne's AROUND THE CITY IN FIFTEEN MINUTES.

[Lightbend]

Heinlein's Familiar Person in His Home Environment

H.P. Lovecraft's Two Cans and a String of Cthulhu

[J. Robb]

Cervantes' Boy of La Mancha - Young Alonso Quixano wastes his days reading books.

[Roquefort Raider]

Brilliant stuff in there, people!


Let's try some more...


LaHaye and Jenkins' Still there.

Tom Clancy's Kind of yellowing September.

J. D. Salinger's The pitcher in the rye.

Shakespeare's As of right now, not yet much ado about nothing.

E. R. Burroughs' John Carter, gold digger.

[Sanagi]

Albert Camus, The Rise.
Milan Kundera, The Relative Tolerability of Not Yet Being
Robert Heinlein - Love Later, I'm Busy Right Now


Franz Kafka's The Rather Dull Life and Times of Gregor Samsa, Travelling Salesman, Prior to His Becoming a Large Insect
I'd buy that just to put it on my bookshelf.

[Lightbend]

John Milton- Paradise Exactly Where We Last Saw It

Warhammer 39k- Still Space Nazis.

[Reptisaurus!]

The Young Boy And The Wet Spot.

[Jonathan Bogart]

Dante's The Divine Warm-Up Act
G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Wednesday
James Hilton's Hello, Mr. Chips
Margaret Mitchell's Still There, Though a Low Front is Coming in from the North
T. S. Eliot's The Half-Full Men
Chaucer's The London Tales
Jules Verne's Just a Couple Feet Under the Sea, Then We Have to Come Back Up for Air
William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Some Tentpoles and a Coming Soon! Poster
Jack Kerouac's Dharma Respectable Citizens

[Expletive Deleted]

Umberto Eco's THE INITIALS OF THE ROSE

Edward Gibbon's THE APEX OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

Robert Graves' I, JULIUS

Charles Frazer's TEPID MOUNTAIN (which is, obviously, based on the Illiad)

Neal Stephenson's FREEZING RAIN COLLISION

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's REASONABLY DECENT PORTENTS

[J. Robb]

Maurice Sendak's Where The Wild Things Will Be

[Sanagi]

Samuel Beckett - The Faulty Pocketwatch of Godot
H.G. Wells - The Time Machine, Patent Pending

[Jonathan Bogart]

Umberto Eco's THE INITIALS OF THE ROSE
I was trying to think of one for that. The Pseudonym of the Rose or The Nickname of the Rose was the best I could do, but I like yours better.

[J. Robb]

Here's a couple movie adaptions waiting to happen:

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Paper Route - an uneventful year in the life of a dull ten year-old.

Irvine Welsh's Train Modelling - Young Renton and his friends get addicted... to model railroads!

[Roquefort Raider]

Henri Charriere's Caterpillar.

Jules Verne's From Baltimore to Florida.

Christopher Tolkien's J. R. R. Tolkien's early works: A is for ant, B is for bumblebee, C is for cookie.

Richard Bach's Jonathan Livinston, egg.

[AndyAnime]

Lunch In My Underwear By William S. Burroughs

Occasionally, But Not Often-Where By Neil Gaiman

In The Driveway By Jack Kerouac

[Shem the Penman]

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Rosalind

Erich Maria Remarque's Yo! Shaddup on the Western Front!

Ayn Rand's Atlas Got an Itch Between His Shoulder Blades

O. Henry's "Jimmy Valentine Thinks About Reforming"

Raymond Chandler's The Big Turkey Dinner with Warm Milk

Charles Dickens's A Guy Fawkes Day Carol

Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Half Past Eleven

Wade Davis's The Egg and the Rainy Day

[Lightbend]

Neil Gaiman's Albino Naked Guy In a Glass Jar

Yeah, comics, but whatever.

Terry Pratchett's Turtle with a few Baby Elephants series

[Aaron Kashtan]

Charles Dickens. Cheerful House
Leo Tolstoy. War and Additional War
Soren Kierkegaard. The Sickness Unto Having to Stay Home from Work
George Selden. The Larva in Times Square
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Public Garden

[Jonathan Bogart]

Cervantes' Boy of La Mancha - Young Alonso Quixano wastes his days reading books.
Oh. Technically that would be the musical. Cervantes would have written Señorito Quixote.

[J. Robb]

Oh. Technically that would be the musical. Cervantes would have written Señorito Quixote.
Yeah, I didn't want to attempt Spanish.

[captain_unimpressive]

CSI Kindergarten
Star Wars: Episode Pi
Star Trek: The Current Generation
Asimov's "I, Graphing Calculator"
Orson Scott Card's "Speaker for the Slightly Ill"
Percy Shelley's "Ozymandius: The Good Years"

[Roquefort Raider]

Joe Haldeman's The temporary intervention in Iraq.

Adolf Hitler's Meine Zukunft als Architekt.

Arthur C. Clarke's 2000: the year nothing happened.

Martin Caidin's The 6 000 000 stitches man.

George R.R. Martin's A hatching of dragons, a.k.a. No, not yet the following book... this one is a prequel!

H. G. Wells' The practice of Dr. Moreau, veterinarian.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Viktor, boy genius, and his funny inventions.

Ira Levin's Rosemary's cherry.

[Alan2099]

Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of slightly unbalanced Men whose lovers aren't dead yet.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Dark Pink Letter

Lewis Carroll's Alice tries to pay attention to her lessons

Anna Sewell's Black Not-that-Bad-looking

[Shem the Penman]

Thomas Hardy: The Departure of the Native

Arthur Conan Doyle: The Puppy of the Baskervilles

Alfred Bester: Golem99 (can't do superscripts, alas)

Samuel Beckett: Making an Appointment with Godot

L. Frank Baum: Dorothy Moves to Kansas

Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked Is Just Kind of Loitering Around Over There

[Bouncing Boy]

Darn, some of the ones I was thinking of are already taken. I so wanted to say Romeo and Rosalind, and my Oz prequil would have been "Dorthy Gail of Kansas"

Here are some other ones I thought of:

Shakespeare's The Death of King Hamlet the Elder
Ray Bradburry's Fahrenheit 350
Shakespeare's King Duncan (in which we see how Duncan became king of Scotland, and also how he met two young soldiers, MacBeth and Banquo)

[Slam_Bradley]

I know that a couple of Ray's have been done, but as a huge Bradbury fan, I must contribute.

Dandelion Juice.

The Halloween Sapling.

A Funeral-home for Lunatics

The September Country.

The Venus Outlines.

I Sing the Body Steam-driven.

[Ed Cunard]

Dashiell Hammet's The Thin Boy.
Percy Shelley's My New Statue is Awesome.*
Charles Dickens's A Tale of a City.
Fred Gipson's Young Yeller.
William Butler Yeats, "The First Coming."
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus at University.
Isabelle Holland's The Man With a Face.
Ernest Hemingway's Hello, Arms.

*EDIT: Crap, I just noticed someone beat me to the Ozymandias joke.

[captain_unimpressive]

Dashiell Hammet's The Thin Boy.
Percy Shelley's My New Statue is Awesome.*
Charles Dickens's A Tale of a City.
Fred Gipson's Young Yeller.
William Butler Yeats, "The First Coming."
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus at University.
Isabelle Holland's The Man With a Face.
Ernest Hemingway's Hello, Arms.

*EDIT: Crap, I just noticed someone beat me to the Ozymandias joke.

Eh, I prefer yours anyway.

A Tale of A City and That Empty Lot Over There
Heart of Greyness
Nietzche's Sub-Man
Bride's Head Visited
Lord of the Rings: I've Never Seen That Particular King Before
The Silmarillion: Of The Era Where Even Less Happened

[Jonathan Bogart]

Nietzche's Sub-Man
Oh, that reminds me:

George Bernard Shaw's Man and Clark Kent of Smallville.



Bride's Head Visited
How quickly they forget....

[Tobias March]

Finnegan's Birthday

[a. non]

Mark Helprin's Autumn's Short Story (A Winter's Tale)
Douglas Adams' Hichhiker's Guide to Uranus
Frank Herbert's Mound and The Sleeper Has Stirred (infinitly better than KJA's "work")
Isaac Asimov's The Next-to-Last Question
Arthur C. Clarke's Adjacent to the Crack of Dawn (Against the Fall of Night)
Siegel & Schuster's Slightly-Above-Average Man
Joe Haldeman's Prolonged Skirmish

[Michael P]

Neil Gaiman's Anansi Fetuses

[Gordon Smith]

Neil Gaiman's Anansi Fetuses

How about Neil Gaiman's British Demigods?

[Jonathan Bogart]

Or Terry Pratchett's Woosh!

[thehod]

Boris Pasternak's Student Nurse Zhivago
Ernest Hemingway’s Hello to Arms
Graham Greene’s The Beginning of the Affair
John Wyndham’s Night of the Daffodils
John Steinbeck’s Seeds of the Slightly Peeved

[Super Hero Guy]

Harry Potter and the Cupboard Under The Stairs by Jk Rowling
The Guy With Rings by JRR Tokien
The Conception of Dr Lecter by Thomas Harding
The Misadventrues of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Iago by William Shakespeare
The World Before Genesis by Moses
A Series Of Not-To-Bad Events by Lemony Snicket
The Teenagers Who Don't Shapeshift by KA Applegate
Fourth Business by Robertson Davies
The Knife of Earth by Ursula K Le Guin
Lady Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Lord of the Maggots by William Golding
The Jew Of Venice by William Shakespeare
Montague and Capulet: the reason for the feud! by William Shakespeare

[Sanagi]

Issac Asimov's I, Difference Engine

[Karl J. Barnes]

Issac Asimov's Robots of the Evening

Arthur Clarke's Rama-lamma-ding-dong

Robert Heinlien's Stranger In Disneyland and Saturday

Tracy Hickman and Margret Weis' Dragonlance: The Milking

[Karl J. Barnes]

C J Cherryh's new trilogy The Guy Just Passing Through

[Karl J. Barnes]

Neal Stephenson's The Quartz Age

[Sanagi]

Neal Stephenson's Snow General Protection Fault

[Aaron Kashtan]

Montague and Capulet: the reason for the feud! by William Shakespeare

This ought to be called Ancient Grudge.

A couple more Shakespearean sequels:

Macbeth, Thane of Glamis
Miranda and Her Four or Five Nursemaids

[captain_unimpressive]

This ought to be called Ancient Grudge.

A couple more Shakespearean sequels:

Macbeth, Thane of Glamis
Miranda and Her Four or Five Nursemaids

Not to Mention:
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Open a Small Bakery, With Comedic Results
Tenth Night
A Winter Solstice Night's Dream
(or)
A Midsummer Day's Dreamsicle

And, to make an even five:
Percy Shelley's Prometheus Waits Around for a While

[Super Hero Guy]

Yann Martel's "Life Of Circumferance"
Edgar Allen Poe's "The Construction of the House Of Usher"
James Joyces' "Finnigan Alive"
Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee In New York State"
John Updike's "The Womb According To Garp"
Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Tribes"
Dante Aligheri's "The Human Comedy"
Ernest Hemmingway's "The Young Man and the Lake"
John Milton's "This Sure Is Paradise"
Wilkie Collin's "The Girl In Rainbow"
EM Forster's "A Room With A Better View"

[Jonathan Bogart]

Arthur C. Clarke's 2000: Sittin' Around on Earth.

Hunter S. Thompson's Uncertainly and Mild Disgust in Las Vegas.

Tom Wolfe's The Smoldering Heap of the Vanities.

Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Have Got to Do Something With It.

Walker Percy's The Ticketbuyer.

Ayn Rand's Atlas Was Asked a Question He Didn't Know the Answer To.

H. Rider Haggard's King David's Mines.

[Sanagi]

Arthur C. Clarke's 2000: Sittin' Around on Earth.
Or: A Monolith Gathers Dust

[Roquefort Raider]

Miilar and Hitch's The Penultimates.

[Karl J Barnes]

William Faulkner's The Sound and Sgt. Fury

[Roquefort Raider]

Before there was light, by God et al.

Dostoevski's Dmitri Karamazov, single child.

[Michael P]

Donald J. Sobol's Leroy Brown Gets His Library Card.

[Aaron Kashtan]

Living Souls by Nikolai Gogol
If on an Autumn Night a Person Staying at Home by Italo Calvino
An Essay Concerning Human Misunderstanding by John Locke
Meditations on Zeroth Philosophy by Rene Descartes
The Interpretation of Thoughts One Might Have Just Before Falling Asleep by Sigmund Freud
The House of the Six Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Roquefort Raider]

Dostoevsky's criminal intent

Beckett's Estragon and Vladimir, young investment bankers

Shakespeare's Claudius and Gertrude: stolen kisses

J. K. Rowling's Tom Riddle's first card trick

H. P. Lovecraft's Herbert West, animator

[Aaron Kashtan]

Shakespeare's Claudius and Gertrude: stolen kisses

As you may know already, John Updike wrote a novel called Gertrude and Claudius, though it was more of a retelling of Hamlet than a prequel to it.

[Roquefort Raider]

As you may know already, John Updike wrote a novel called Gertrude and Claudius, though it was more of a retelling of Hamlet than a prequel to it.

Gah!!! No, I didn't know. Let me replace it by the following:

Shakespeare's Rosenkrantz, Hamlet & Guildenstern: the wild and crazy years.

[OzBat!]

The Hobbit: 60 chapters in search of a story about getting ready for a birthday party.

[Adem]

Romeo and Puberty by William Shakespeare
Paul Bäumer and Albert Kropp’s Wacky School Adventure by Erich Maria Remarque
James Gatz by F. Scott Fitzgerald

[Roquefort Raider]

Charles Darwin's finches of the Galapagos.

Boccaccio's Nonameron

The Feel Good book, by the sane Arab Abdul Alhazred.

[Karl J Barnes]

Harry Potter,The Magical Embryo by J K Rowlings

[Donald M.]

John Grisham's The Flaccid

Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Painting

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Empty Lot on the Prarie

[Roquefort Raider]

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Empty Lot on the Prairie

Good thing I wasn't drinking coffee; I would have spat it through my nose!!! :D

[TheLazy]

Christopher Tolkien's J. R. R. Tolkien's early works: A is for ant, B is for bumblebee, C is for cookie.


I'm pretty sure I read that last night you know


Miilar and Hitch's The Penultimates.

I was thinking The Mediocres or Cannon Fodder personally;)

OP:

Tom Clancy's Wed Wabbit

Dante's The Divine Chuckle

Tolkien's The Lord of the Playpen

Bret Ellis' British Colonialist Psycho

Herman Melville's Ahab is a Dick

Frank Miller's 299

Homer's I've never left home in my life, I probably never will

Sun Tzu's The Art of Diplomacy

Michael Moore's Dude, where's my cookies

Dan Brown Di Vince and His Daemons

[scottv]

Peter Parker: The Weak Little Kid before the Spider

0 Leagues under the Sea

[Roquefort Raider]

Ray Bradbury's Farenheit 440. While a hot book, it didn't quite catch fire.

Stephenie Meyer's Afternoon made no impression on anyone. A classic case of a book happening too early.

[atoningunifex]

Before there was light, by God et al.


Oh, that's the reprint title.It was originally called Are You There Me? It's Me, Me. or I'm Bored. I Think I'll Make Some Pirates!

[Jared]

Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon is a Mild Potential Bedmate. and
Starship Builders.

Frank Miller's Batman: Not Yet.

Tolstoy's Skirmishes and Armistice

Tolkien's The Erection of Hurin.

Truman Capote's Opening Shift At Tiffany's

Julius Ceasar's Thinking About a Trip to Gaul

Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Up.

Stephen King's Fat

[Expletive Deleted]

AHAB -OR- THE YOUNG MAN WHO THOUGHT WHALING MIGHT BE AN INTERESTING AND LUCRATIVE CAREER by Herman Melville.

[Shatterpoint]

Hemingway's A Farewell to Fingers
Bradbury's Fahrenheit 212
Nicholas Sparks' The Notepad
Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Girlfriend

[Donald M.]

Mickey Spillane's I the Jury Pool

[Roquefort Raider]

Hemingway's A Farewell to Fingers


:biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:

That was pretty unexpected!!!

A few more :

Joe Haldeman's trilogy of prequels -

-The long war
-The pretty long war
-The %$# long war

Joseph Heller's son milking the cow for all it's worth:

Pitch-20
Hit- 21

and the sequel

Yer out- 23.

[Roquefort Raider]

Cain and Abel : or how agriculture will usher in an age of peace and brotherly love by Moses MacAmram.


St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark and St. John : In his father's shoes : Twenty years of carpentry.

[Gordon Smith]

What we need is a companion thread which could be entitled ''Sequels that never were''.

[Slam_Bradley]

Lady Chatterley's Suitor.

[Rabid Trekkie]

Arthur C. Clarke: Baby Steps

Isaac Asimov: Pouring the Foundation

Robert Heinlein: Blue Planet

Abdul Alhazred: Victunomicon

[Donald M.]

Alexander Dumas' The Three French Guys Who are Considering Joining the Military

[Chris N]

Huxley's Brave World.

Steinbeck's Of Mice and Children.

Salinger's Pitcher in the Barren Field.

Dostoyevsky's Peace and War

Le Guin's The Possessed and The Left Hand of Dusk

Sturgeon's More or Less Human

Bradbury's Something Wicked Is Way Over There And Not Even Looking At Us So There Is No Reason To Panic

Card's Starter series. Starter's Game, Speaker for the Living, Xenophobia, and Babies of the Mind

Clarke's Childhood's Beginning and Appointment Scheduled With Rama

Heinlein's Familiar Face in a Familiar Land. Plus the earliest collections of his future history, including The Past Through Around Ten Years Ago, The Past Through Last January and The Past Through The Morning I Mailed This Manuscript In

I've been looking and looking for the first four books in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse series. And the first 16 books in Delaney's Babel series. Those ones are bloody impossible to track down.

[Donald M.]

Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Drink Warm Milk When They Can't Sleep?

[RolandJP]

D. H. Lawrence's When Constance met Clifford

Ray Bradbury's Martian Pamphlets

Reverend Dodgson's Rabbit Tale

Harper Lee's Three Finch hens


Margaret Mitchell's "Light Breeze"

[Shatterpoint]

C.S. Lewis' Into the Loud Planet

[Hoss]

Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Drink Warm Milk When They Can't Sleep?

Or Dick's novel he cowrote with Tom Wolfe "Do androids take electric kool aid acid tests?"

[Hoss]

Sorry if this has been posted

Burrough's Partially Clad Brunch and Recreational User

[Expletive Deleted]

Or Dick's novel he cowrote with Tom Wolfe "Do androids take electric kool aid acid tests?"On that note, what about Wolfe's THE REASONABLY ADEQUATE STUFF and A MAN IN PARTS?

[Estrecca]

JULES VERNE: Phileas Fogg of Savile Row.

[Ta2grrl]

HG Wells: The Visible Man (aka That Guy Standing Over There)

XXX

[Donald M.]

HG Wells: The Visible Man (aka That Guy Standing Over There)

XXX

http://www.brainwavestoys.com/images/P/H901VisibleManKit300.jpg

:wink:

[Ta2grrl]

http://www.brainwavestoys.com/images/P/H901VisibleManKit300.jpg

:wink:

Hehe...

He's a bit too visible for my tastes...

:biggrin:

Prequel to Stephen King's Insomnia: I Walked Into My Parent's Room Unexpectedly Last Night

XXX

[Donald M.]

Prequel to Stephen King's Insomnia: I Walked Into My Parent's Room Unexpectedly Last Night

XXX

Other Stephen King prequels . . .

The Sit

Slight Depression

The Grey Quarter

The Dulling

The Dying Zone

Sparkmaker

Pet Hospital

Somewhat Desirable Things

Dreamchaser

[End of Time]

Or Dick's novel he cowrote with Tom Wolfe "Do androids take electric kool aid acid tests?"

I'm confused, which one was made into the excellent, yet underwhelming "Blade Jogger"...

Mr and Mrs Potter and the Contraceptives of Failure! - J.K. Rowling.

The Catterpillar Kid - Chester Anderson

The Man in the only moderatly high mansion - Phillip K. Dick.

That Immortal Over There - Zelazny

[RolandJP]

Skirmishes and Reconciliatory talks by Leo Tolstoy
A tramp buys a ticket by Mark Twain
Uncle Tom's stack of neatly arranged logs by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Keene Insight by Alan Moore
Hungry and in need of food by Truman Capote

[RolandJP]

Noon by Stephanie Meyer

[Roquefort Raider]

An unexpected African Honeymoon

or the Newlywed castaways

by E. R. Burroughs.

[Rob Allen]

A Royal Wedding of Mars

also by E. R. Burroughs

[Aaron Kashtan]

Dodie Smith's My Opponent Leaves His Rook En Prise

[SlightlyMad]

"The Best Friend of the Expectant Father" ~ Mario Puzo

"Watership Up" ~ Richard Adams

"Moderate Expectations" ~ Charles Dickens

"A Tale of One City" ~ Charles Dickens

"The Rough Sketch of Dorian Gray" ~ Oscar Wilde

[jade_nova]

Very Noisy on the Western Front

[Roquefort Raider]

Kenneth Robeson's

The man of gold

followed by

The man of silver

[RolandJP]

The trail by Cormac MCarthy

001 by Ian Fleming

Bone Admirer by Jefferey Deaver

Paralegal by John Grisham

A Wimpy Kid is born by Jeff Kinney

Garden of Eden book of World Records

[Aaron Kashtan]

Philip Massinger's An Old Way to Pay Old Debts

And George R.R. Martin's A Game of High Chairs, A Clash of Crown Princes, A Drizzle of Swords, An Appetizer for Crows and the interminably delayed A Dance with Dragon Eggs.

[Roquefort Raider]

Hemingway's Robert Jordan, student activist.

Robert Heinlein's Methuselah's conjugal duty.

Robert E. Howard's Conan the bully.

Franz Kafka's The cocooning.

[Motormouse]

Frank Herbert's "Sandpit"

James Herbert's "The Mice"

"The Bastard Life of Wasps" - Sue Monk Kidd

[RolandJP]

Beer Belly by Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)

Kitten In A Mitten by Dr. Seuss

Maggot by George Langelaan

[John Asperger]

...John Updike , WABBIT , CWAWL...:smile:

[Aaron Kashtan]

Deep Space is My Dwelling Place by Alfred Bester

[Puma]

The Track by Cormac McCarthy

[Professor Moriarty]

Naked Breakfast by William S. Burroughs

Dr. Jekyll: The High School Years by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Not So Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

1983 by George Orwell

[Puma]

Mediocre Possibilities by Charles Dickens

[RolandJP]

Percy jackson the Lightning bug by Riordan
Sapling Gump by Winston Groom
I servo by Issac Asimov
A soundbite with a Vampire by Anne Rice
The girl who entered a tattoo parlor by Stieg Larsson
Cook. Steeple Hands. Admire. By Elizabeth Gilbert

[Puma]

Now this one is good:

The girl who entered a tattoo parlor by Stieg Larsson

[RolandJP]

Dark Tower 0: Roland, Roland, Roland on a river By Stephen King
Low Sperm Count by P.D. James

[Roquefort Raider]

John Milton's Paradise gambled.

[RolandJP]

I am Joe's utter lack of Grammatical comprehension and I like the smell of Soap by Chuck Palahniuk


I have a mouth and I will scream by Harlan Ellison

[Aaron Kashtan]

The Birth of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes

[goof]

Arthur Millers' Birth of a Salesman

[Havok C.]

J. K. Rowling's Abused and Neglected English Child

[Libaax]

J. K. Rowling's Abused and Neglected English Child

Hah good one !

Read first Harry Potter last week and hehe it wasnt subtil to say the least when she wrote about the abused English child.

[Aaron Kashtan]

The Darkness That Comes Even Beforer by Scott Bakker

[Professor Moriarty]

The Girl Who Wanted To Get A Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson

[Castel]

Let The Right One Wait A Bit At The Door by John Lindqvist.

[dupersuper]

Catch 1 - 21

[Alton]

Prequels have been part of our cultural landscape recently. Here's where we get the chance to imagine as-yet unwritten prequels to well-known books! (Obviously, not all prequels deserve to see the light of day...)

Best thread in Books!

[Jared]

Stephen Pressfield's Gates of Flammable Material.


James Potter and the Defective Prophylactic.

Triassic Park.

[Captain Smith]

Fetus Potter and the Azkacentesis

The One Tower under Construction

Minor border incident of the Worlds

[RolandJP]

Anastasia Steele dreams of College by El James
If we have a son we shall name him John Clayton by Edgar Rice Burroughs

[Kirayoshi]

William Shakespeare - The Eleventh Night
More Shakespeare - Romeo and Rosaline(the chick he was crushing on before he crashed the Capulet's party)
Norman Juster - The Phantom Highway Commissioner Who Said "This Bridge Needs A Tollbooth."
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Penultimate Problem
Neil Gaiman - Rain, Sand, Apple Blossoms

For comic book buffs, DeMatteis and Zeck - Kraven, Still With a Few More Hunts Left In Him

[Havok C.]

Yeah, lets burn some books! by Ray Bradbury

[Roquefort Raider]

Saul of Tarsus, the scourge of YHWH (author unknown)

Branchial arches, by Peter Benchley

Opisthokonta farm, by George Orwell

Crossbows, evil humors and bronze, by Jared Diamond

i : a novel by Matt Beaumont.

[DebkoX]

One explaining the fall of the god's (Percy jackson)

[Professor Moriarty]

Clothed Lunch by William S. Burroughs

[Michael P]

Mr. Rosewater Sneezes by Kurt Vonnegut