AikiDale Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 From the Washington Post Invitational contest -- Readers were asked to combine the works of two authors, and to provide a suitable description of the merged book. "Machiavelli's The Little Prince" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic children's tale as presented by Machiavelli. The whimsy of human nature is embodied in many delightful and intriguing characters, all of whom are executed. (Erik Anderson, Tempe, Ariz.) "Green Eggs and Hamlet" - Would you kill him in his bed? Thrust a dagger through his head? I would not, could not, kill the King. I could not do that evil thing. I would not wed this girl, you see. Now get her to a nunnery. (Robin Parry, Arlington) "Where's Walden?" - Alas, the challenge of locating Henry David Thoreau in each richly-detailed drawing loses its appeal when it quickly becomes clear that he is always in the woods. (Sandra Hull, Arlington) "Catch-22 in the Rye" - Holden learns that if you're insane, you'll probably flunk out of prep school, but if you're flunking out of prep school, you're probably not insane. (Brendan Beary, Great Mills) "2001: A Space Iliad"- The Hal 9000 computer wages an insane 10- year war against the Greeks after falling victim to the Y2K bug. (Joseph Romm, Washington) "Rikki-Kon-Tiki-Tavi"- Thor Heyerdahl recounts his attempt to prove Rudyard Kipling's theory that the mongoose first came to India on a raft from Polynesia. (David Laughton, Washington) "The Maltese Faulkner" - Is the black bird a tortured symbol of Sam's struggles with race and family? Does it signify his decay of soul along with the soul of the Old South? Is it merely a crow, mocking his attempts to understand? Or is it worth a cool mil? (Thad Humphries, Warrenton) "Jane Eyre Jordan" - Plucky English orphan girl survives hardships to lead the Chicago Bulls to the NBA championship. (Dave Pickering, Bowie) "Looking for Mr. Godot"- A young woman waits for Mr. Right to enter her life. She has a loooong wait. (Jonathan Paul, Garrett Park) "The Scarlet Pimpernel Letter" - An 18th-century English nobleman leads a double life, freeing comely young adulteresses from the prisons of post-Revolution France. "Lorna Dune" - An English farmer, Paul Atreides, falls for the daughter of a notorious rival clan, the Harkonnens, and pursues a career as a giant worm jockey in order to impress her. "The Remains of the Day of the Jackal" - A formal English butler puts his loyalty to his employer above all else, until he is persuaded to join a plot to assassinate Charles deGaulle. "The Invisible Man of La Mancha"- Don Quixote discovers a mysterious elixir which renders him invisible. He proceeds to go on a mad rampage of corruption and terror, attacking innocent people in the streets and all the while singing "To fight the Invisible Man!" until he is finally stopped by a windmill. "Of Three Blind Mice and Men" - Burgess Meredith has his limbs hacked off by a psychopathic farmer's wife. Did you ever see such a sight in your life? "Planet of the Grapes of Wrath" - Astronaut lands on mysterious planet, only to discover that it is his very own home planet of Earth, which has been taken over by the Joads, a race of dirt-poor corn farmers who miraculously developed rudimentary technology and regained the ability to speak after exposure to nuclear radiation. "Paradise Lost in Space"- Satan, Moloch, and Belial are sentenced to spend eternity in a flying saucer with a goofy robot, an evil scientist, and two annoying children. "The Exorstentialist" - Camus psychological thriller about a priest who casts out a demon by convincing it that there's really no purpose to what it's doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Absofri#(%$lutley Outstanding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Very funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Now, THAT is FUNNY. But, what...? No take-offs on Ayn Rand...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted February 10, 2005 Author Share Posted February 10, 2005 Here we go......... Oedipus Shrugged The story of the decline of Greek civilization attributed to the decline of the intelligentsia through inbreeding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old shooter Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 How about... "Three coins in a Fountainhead" Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted February 10, 2005 Author Share Posted February 10, 2005 good title Old Shooter. But remember the rules: Readers were asked to combine the works of two authors, and to provide a suitable description of the merged book. How would you describe that one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old shooter Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Sorry, I had to run Three coins in a Fountainhead The forward looking Howard, carries the load of 3 daydreamers in another story of of the outnumbered "can do minority" doing the work of 4, all the while wishing he were a Mormon and enjoying the fruits of polygamy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted February 12, 2005 Author Share Posted February 12, 2005 good one. Who's next? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carinab Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Moby Dick and Jane A primer on sea/see life. See Moby Dick. See Moby Dick swim. See Jane. See Jane swim. Recently adapted by Bartleby the scrivner to the big screen as "Whale Rider" and nomicated for an Academy Award. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carinab Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 No other literature majors out there? Sometimes I feel lonely! I keep trying to come up with a two book merger using Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing)...but it needs refinement. How about a few ideas from the peanut gallery? So far I was thinking something that rhymed with Fear...such as Beer or Cheer or Queer....Your turn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacifistwitharifle Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Aw heck I'll take a stab at this The Art of Utopia. How to have the perfect society without killing anyone to get it. "I really hate Thomas More, if I ever see him as a zombie I'm going to take pleasure in shooting him" (an aquaintance by the name of kirstin) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Carina, you get a gold star for yours. I was going to try one but couldn't come up with anything. I went to the bookshelf for inspiration and also considered Fear and Loathing. Hey how about Fear and Lolita in Las Vegas? Run with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Carina, you get a gold star for yours. I was going to try one but couldn't come up with anything. I went to the bookshelf for inspiration and also considered Fear and Loathing.Hey how about Fear and Lolita in Las Vegas? Run with it. A sordid tale of a twisted, cross dressing half blind pedophile journalist with a queer eye, who in her beer induced drunken stupor is filled with self loathing, on the run in Las Vegas. Join with the men of the Lollita squad as they Hunt her, Thompsons loaded and ready to fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carinab Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 A sordid tale of a twisted, cross dressing half blind pedophile journalist with a queer eye, who in her beer induced drunken stupor is filled with self loathing, on the run in Las Vegas. Join with the men of the Lollita squad as they Hunt her, Thompsons loaded and ready to fire. We were fifteen steps outside of the Mirage when the caffeine started to take effect.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted February 14, 2005 Author Share Posted February 14, 2005 The blur of neon lights crystalized into distinctly recognizable advertisments for future pleasures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Shopworn ladies with desperate eyes smiled professionally at the passing tourists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 anyone can be a writer for 3 or so lines....takes some talent to do it for an entire book... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted February 14, 2005 Author Share Posted February 14, 2005 Tightgroup said to one of them. "I'm working on a major novel about competitve shooting and the myriad of interpersonal relationships involved in just making it to a nationally competitive level. But right now I just need some company. Do you like chocolate chip cookies?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 And Aikadale said to Tightloop...I have the recipe for great cookies, do you think I can get some personal instruction from Jake or Steve if I offer them some...at which point the Prairie Sage said to Aiki, Practice will get you there, cookies won't...MX5 agreed, Flex nodded in absentia, Sig Lady scoffed and took a picture of the group to host later on the loading bench thread....Shooter Grrl, asked for a cookie and a recipe for duck, while Big Dave continued to ...ride the storm out... ...meanwhile, Duane is planning a hostile takeover of Microsoft, financed by the sale of his comic books to Rhino and Kimel with some interim financing by shred and Jeffro... The story goes on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AikiDale Posted February 14, 2005 Author Share Posted February 14, 2005 and a good story too! We should enlist the help of a moderator to split it off into its own thread. (that's a hint). Mean while, back to the main topic of merging two books to produce another I submit the following for your perusal: The Prisoner of Delphi, a novel set in the mythical kingdom of Ruritania. The book relates the adventures of Rudolf Rassendyll, a Microsoft programmer who impersonates the CEO of Oracle to save Sybase from extinction. An improbable but high-spirited tale filled with heroes, villains, boardroom intrigue, romance, and a devestating computer virus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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