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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

What would you look forward to reading?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Same story but told in a different style?

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By *Cocksucker84Man
over a year ago

Salford

Nothing. Lol. There's a reason why this doesn't happen. I don't mind when writers are inspired by others but covering a 3-minute song is far different to re-writing the same book. Orwell's 1984 for example, inspired the writing of The Handmaid's Tale and Never Let Me Go, but these are all very different books. They are all great but for entirely different reasons. It's difficult when films are re-made too because it's very difficult to re-create the magic first time round.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Same story but told in a different style?"

Yes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spike Milligan did it with a few books...the bible, wuthering heights, etc.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hehe nice thread

I'll have The Lord of the Rings by Irvine Welsh, Wuthering Heights by Douglas Adams, and Bridget Jones by Ruth Rendell.

That'll do for now : )

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Stephen King

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Stephen King

That would be a disturbing read

I'll follow it with Life of Pi by James Herbert

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Stephen King

That would be a disturbing read

I'll follow it with Life of Pi by James Herbert "

Interesting

How about Catcher in the Rye by David Walliams?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Stephen King

That would be a disturbing read

I'll follow it with Life of Pi by James Herbert

Interesting

How about Catcher in the Rye by David Walliams?

I never read either

I thought this thread would be more popular. No sense of adventure some people

Wind in the Willows by Brett Easton Ellis

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Stephen King

That would be a disturbing read

I'll follow it with Life of Pi by James Herbert

Interesting

How about Catcher in the Rye by David Walliams?

I never read either

I thought this thread would be more popular. No sense of adventure some people

Wind in the Willows by Brett Easton Ellis

TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW, YOU FUCKING STUPID BASTARD! YOU, FUCKING BASTARD!

poop poop!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Stephen King

That would be a disturbing read

I'll follow it with Life of Pi by James Herbert

Interesting

How about Catcher in the Rye by David Walliams?

I never read either

I thought this thread would be more popular. No sense of adventure some people

Wind in the Willows by Brett Easton Ellis

I know!

Maybe it's because we're Royalty darling

Fifty Shades of Grey - Enid Blyton

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fifty Shades of Grey - Enid Blyton

Lashings of ginger beer

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Porno by Barbara Cartland

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

101 Uses For a Dead Cat, by the Marquis de Sade.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Porno by Barbara Cartland "

I hope it's illustrated

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Fifty Shades of Grey - Enid Blyton

Lashings of ginger beer

Jolly hockey sticks!!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Cold Comfort Farm - Agatha Christie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Catch-22 by Douglas Adams might be fun. Don't know Snowdon's secret but know where his towel is.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Catch-22 by Douglas Adams might be fun. Don't know Snowdon's secret but know where his towel is."

Hmmm, interesting. I think Catch 22 and HHG are both on par when it comes to humour, maybe Douglas Adams would add a slightly different twist?

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

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A Christmas carol rap style

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nah can’t see it I’m afraid

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Nah can’t see it I’m afraid "

See what?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Nah can’t see it I’m afraid

See what? "

And why are you afraid?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Catch-22 by Douglas Adams might be fun. Don't know Snowdon's secret but know where his towel is.

Hmmm, interesting. I think Catch 22 and HHG are both on par when it comes to humour, maybe Douglas Adams would add a slightly different twist? "

I think Adams would make stronger points more absurd, though Heller would make Hitchhikers more poignant.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Nah can’t see it I’m afraid

See what?

And why are you afraid?

Ha!

I’m just thinking that the memories I have of reading books from my youth and early adulthood may be ruined if they were covered now. This may sound absurd in the way that I love a musical cover version but when I read a book it’s in my voice. If it’s re written in a new style I don’t know how it might “sound” in my head and this is maybe why I don’t think it would work for me.

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Animal farm re-written by Adolf hitler

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Watershipdown with Richard Burton and Patrick Allen and Judi Dench.

If John Hurt was not already (brilliantly) cast in the original, then I'd put his name in the hat too! Sod it he's in the hat again. Pity that won't come true. Damn that grimm reaper, taking away those great voices...

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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago

Peterborough

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Stephen King

Actually, saying that...Roald Dahl wrote for children and adults too, so it could and should be feasible. Not forgetting of course, Anthony Horowitz.

It is possible to write books for adults and children.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Handmaid's Tale by Dr Seuss

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Milk on the floss

By Jackie Collins

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

The Mr Men books

By William Shakespeare

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

Taming of a shrew by Gerald Durrell

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

I like this one

Merchant of Venice by Arthur Miller

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ - Anne Frank

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Nah can’t see it I’m afraid

See what?

And why are you afraid?

Ha!

I understand this.... and this is why I can't get used to hearing Liam Neeson play The Narrator/Journalist in War of the Worlds, it'll always be a story read by Richard Burton

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By *innie The MinxWoman
over a year ago

Under the Duvet

War and Peace rewritten by Katie Price.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Rats - Boris Johnson

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Franz Kafka

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

These are hilarious!

The Bible - Charles Darwin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mills and Boon by Stephen King

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

Lady Chatterleys Lover - Irvine Welsh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Fog - Hon Lik (inventor of vaping)

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Lady Chatterleys Lover - Irvine Welsh"

Now that's a version I'd like to read

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

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The BFG written by Richard Osman

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

Little Women , written by Jo Brand

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mr Happy by Chuck Palahniuk

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

The Joy of Sex written by Frank Bough

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By *tirluvMan
over a year ago

the right frame of mind -London

Roddy Doyle's "The God of Small Things"

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By *ea monkeyMan
over a year ago

Manchester (he/him)

The bible by Terry Prachett

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Stephen King

Considering that the original contained elements that could be darker, I'd actually be really interested to read this...

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By *ea monkeyMan
over a year ago

Manchester (he/him)

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Franz Kafka

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chicken Soup for the Soul by Kurt Vonnegut

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Five Go On An Adventure - Judy Blume

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Little Women - Jilly Cooper

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By *ensualbicockMan
over a year ago

liverpool wavertree picton clock

Jurassic park ....Percy Thrower

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By *tella HeelsTV/TS
over a year ago

west here ford shire

The accidental agent

By Ian Fleming

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