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!
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Thread: Prequels that never were.
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11-11-2006, 02:15 PM #1Modus omnibus in rebus
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Prequels that never were.
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11-11-2006, 04:07 PM #2Pugnacious
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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
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11-11-2006, 05:47 PM #3Senior Member
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The Autobiography of Malcom IX
Catch 17*
Often a Pretty Good Idea
*...which actually was the original title of Catch 22...
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11-11-2006, 06:04 PM #4Modus omnibus in rebus
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Those two had me laughing out loud!!! Good work, gentlemen!
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11-11-2006, 06:20 PM #5CotM Member
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Jane Austen's Stuck-up and Snooty
Dicken's Mediocre Anticipation
What have I always believed? That, on the whole, and by and large, if a person lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out ok.
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11-11-2006, 09:33 PM #6Forgive Friedrich's Debt
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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
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11-11-2006, 10:07 PM #7Peace and Quiet.
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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
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11-12-2006, 02:00 AM #8Senior Member
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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
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11-12-2006, 02:18 AM #9Ex-Cheeks
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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 SCREWMarkAndrew at Comics Should Be Good
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11-12-2006, 05:00 AM #10Strategist
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C.S.Lewis's "The Cub, the Apprentice Witch and the Furniture Shop".
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11-12-2006, 08:37 AM #11Were You There?
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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"If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth, on manners
"It's not whether you win or lose, it's whether I win or lose." - Peter David, on life
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11-12-2006, 09:59 AM #12Veteran Member
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Thomas Harris' Mewling of the Lambs.
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11-12-2006, 10:59 AM #13Moderator
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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.Expletive Deleted
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11-12-2006, 04:58 PM #14Junior Member
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Heinlein's Familiar Person in His Home Environment
H.P. Lovecraft's Two Cans and a String of Cthulhu
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Cervantes' Boy of La Mancha - Young Alonso Quixano wastes his days reading books.
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