BOOK: The Sequel
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BOOK: The Sequel is now available!
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Thanks to everyone who contributed to this fun (and quick) project!
Ever wonder what happens to Harry Potter after twenty years of marriage and a steady government gig?
Or what Karl Marx would say about today’s financial crisis?
If the Bible had a sequel, what would its first sentence be?
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- Pick a book.
- Imagine its sequel.
- Write the first sentence.
- Give it a great title.
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Some inspiration to get you started:
See, I was right. —From Das Kapital 2 (sequel to Das Kapital by Karl Marx)
HappyMeals are all alike; each unhappy meal is unhappy in its own way. —From Anna McKarenina (sequel to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy)
Bob Marley was dead, to begin with. —From Kwanzaa Tunes (sequel to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)
All animals are equal, except those with swine flu. —From Mexican Animal Farm (sequel to Animal Farm by George Orwell)
Featured Submissions
Lizzy the Lion is tired of being the only responsible hunter in her pride, with her frivolous mother and sisters content to only sun and groom all day and encourage the males on the periphery. —From Pride's Prejudice (sequel to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen) Submitted by Julianne Long, Flower Mound, TX
The morning was clear and fine. —From For Love of Lucy (sequel to Paul Clifford (Begins: "It was a dark and stormy night") by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton) Submitted by Anonymous
In the beginning, God made Cthulhu, the dreaming god; all else was madness. —From The Bible, revisted by H. P. Lovecraft (sequel to The Bible by Moses, dead Gentiles, a few Jews, others) Submitted by Jeffrey Squires, Midwife
"Where's mama going with that shiv?" —From Charlotte: A Pig in the City (sequel to Charlotte's Web by E. B. White) Submitted by Andrew Johnson, Bookseller
Ignatius's valve snapped shut, perhaps for good, as if in vain rebellion against the tides which swelled and broke the levees, or perhaps in an attempt to shut out the bellowing voice in his head, which insisted that all of this was indeed somehow his own fault. —From A Confederacy of Dunces: Ignatius Destroys New Orleans (sequel to A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole) Submitted by David Etkin, Washington Heights
The letter started, "Due to new regulations enacted by the Ministry of Magic, Hogwarts has decided to extend its curriculum— students will now need to attend an eighth year." —From Harry Potter and the Rose of Destiny (sequel to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling) Submitted by Md. Ehteshamul Haque, Washington, DC