#BadBookPrequels

[CyranoJ]

As seen on Comedy Central and the Twitter.

Take a famous book and try to think of a funny title for an awful prequel.

Examples:

That One Karamazov Kid with the Pregnant Mom
Just Gatsby
The Pitcher in the Barley
A Whole Bunch of Mohicans
The Geordie Patient
Godot Called And Said We Should Hang Out Tonight
The "I Could Eat" Games
the mundane incident of the hamster in the afternoon
The Girl Who Wants a Tattoo But Doesn't Know What She Wants Yet

Go!

 

[oggbashan]

Captain Ahab and the White Carp.
Gulliver misses his ship.
Robinson escapes shipwreck.
All Hell Breaks Out On The Western Front.
Full Satin Jacket.
Humility and Diversity by Jane Austen.
Nonsense and Stupidity by Jane Austen.
Frankenstein's Experiment Fails Again.
Of Rats and Women by John Steinbeck.
Much Ado About Something by William Shakespeare.
The Canterbury Tales Pilgrims don't reach Canterbury (sorry! That's real).
The Princess by Machiavelli.
The Uncivil War by Julius Caesar.
Easy Times by Charles Dickens.
The Origin of Spies by Charles Darwin.

 

[Areala-chan]

Michael Crichton's Jurassic Science Fair Project
E. L. James's Fifty Shades of Fucked Up Childhood
Star Wars: Episode Zero: The Phantom Pregnancy
Stephen King's Not-It
John Green's The Fault in My Parents' Goddamn DNA
Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to Croyden

 

[Tio_Narratore]

232.778 Celsius
Finnegans Birth
The Poor Traits of a Young Artiste
Tomes from the Tubes
The Currants of Ire
Rosie's Name
The Alderman of Casterbridge
The Departure of the Newcomer
Staying in the Doldrums
Sid and Arthur
The Boots of the Flycaster

 

[oggbashan]

Oxford Dictionary of words we don't know the meaning of.
Louisa M Alcott: BB Women and Cheating Wives.
Hawthorne: The Blue Numeral.

 

[SamScribble]

Lemonade with Rosie
Zen and the Art of Toaster Maintenance
The Breeze in the Trees
A Clockwork Lemon
Halfway to the Lighthouse
83, Charring Cross Road

 

[HeyAll]

Interview with the Soon-to-be-Vampire.

 

[oggbashan]

C S Forester: Captain Fluteplayer
Alastair MacLean: HMS Ursula; The Arrows of Navarone; Where Chickens Dare.
John Buchan: 38 Paces.
Dorothy L Sayers: The Eight Dressmakers; Four White Cod.
Agatha Christie: Charades on the Orient Express; There Were Some Left aka Nine Big ******s.

 

[Bramblethorn]

The Island Of Pre-Med Moreau
1983 (and 2000, etc etc)
Of Human Negotiating Our Preferences And Agreeing On A Safeword
The French Lieutenant's Tindr Profile
Will Those Lambs Ever Shut Up (and RIP Jonathan Demme)
Something Wicked Is Checking Google Maps And Looking For Its Keys
The Entirely Mundane Construction Of Styles

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Peace and War.
Two Cities without a Tale.

 

[CyranoJ]

The Serf of the Hoops
The Maltese Whatchamacallit
Clear and Present Mild Inconvenience
Harry Potter and the Shockingly Irresponsible Education System

 

[Blind_Justice]

Michael Ende: The Rather Short Essay
J.R.R. Tolkien: My Scattered Notes on Fictional Geography and Languages
George R.R. Martin: Boring Checkers (prequel to Wild Cards)
George R.R. Martin: A Screenplay of Noodles and Hot Sauce
William Gibson: Gallbladdermancer
Robert E. Howard: Bob, the Man from Internal Audit
Terry Pratchett: How Twoflower got enough money to travel the Disc (although that would probably still be awesome)

 

[Areala-chan]

Dave Eggers's A Spleen-Venting Essay of Staggering Incompetence

 

[CyranoJ]

(y'all are makin' me smile )

Limited Jest
The Sum of A Few Anxieties
A Time to Chill
Huckleberry Finn Stays Home
The Naps of Tom Sawyer
Fahrenheit 45.1 (Maybe Wear a Jacket)
Les Contentes
Regular Farm
A Passage to Indiana
Eleven O'Clock's Children
The Average Andersons

 

[SimonDoom]

Michael Crichton's Jurassic Science Fair Project
E. L. James's Fifty Shades of Fucked Up Childhood
Star Wars: Episode Zero: The Phantom Pregnancy
Stephen King's Not-It
John Green's The Fault in My Parents' Goddamn DNA
Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to Croyden

OMG these are good. Gave me a great laugh.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Murky Danger Still Quite A Way Off
The Current And Extremely Future King
The 1001 Afternoons
Wonder If Rama Would Like To Meet Up Some Time
The Very Small Prince Indeed
Tintin Goes To Journalism School

 

[NotWise]

A Hitchicker's Guide to the Midlands

 

[CyranoJ]

A Hitchicker's Guide to the Midlands

Love this one. "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Croyden" is great too.

 

[sr71plt]

Seeing the thread title reminded me of something an old friend of mine, Alexandra Ripley, authorized sequel author (Scarlett) of Gone with the Wind, said once tongue in cheek--that Gone with the Wind was a bad book prequel of her sequel.

 

[Bramblethorn]

A Hitchicker's Guide to the Midlands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy

"Adams claimed that the title came from a 1971 incident while he was hitchhiking around Europe as a young man with a copy of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe book: while lying drunk in a field near Innsbruck with a copy of the book and looking up at the stars, he thought it would be a good idea for someone to write a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy as well."

So, yeah, pretty much.

 

[Areala-chan]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy

"Adams claimed that the title came from a 1971 incident while he was hitchhiking around Europe as a young man with a copy of the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe book: while lying drunk in a field near Innsbruck with a copy of the book and looking up at the stars, he thought it would be a good idea for someone to write a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy as well."

So, yeah, pretty much.

Drat, it was Innsbruck, not Croyden. Oh well...worth a laugh either way, I think.

 

[CarlusMagnus]

As seen on Comedy Central and the Twitter.

Take a famous book and try to think of a funny title for an awful prequel.

On a related theme, you may be interested in knowing that they're making a movie that will be, at one time, a sequel to both Peter Pan and Gandhi.

They're callling it Gandhi with the Wendy.

 

[oggbashan]

On a related theme, you may be interested in knowing that they're making a movie that will be, at one time, a sequel to both Peter Pan and Gandhi.

They're callling it Gandhi with the Wendy.

Other movies:

The Hunt For Red Squirrel Nutkin
Harry Potter and the West Wing Whizz-Kids
Bridget Jones Dies Hard
Pirates of the Green Chicago River
The Not So Wild Ones and Attenborough's Desert Wilder Life

 

[CyranoJ]

They're callling it Gandhi with the Wendy.

http://i.imgur.com/004gP8Z.gif



The "movie mash-ups" meme was pretty fun, too.

Black Swan Down
No Country for Superman
Mulan Rouge
Rise of the Planet of the Snapes
When Harry Potter Met Sally
Star Shrek
Avengers in Babysitting
Snow White and the Seven Samurai