BOOK: The Sequel

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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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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)

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Featured Submissions

Let's be honest, people—we couldn't exactly retire off the first one, could we? —From Book: The Prequel (A Sequel to Book: The Sequel) (sequel to Book: The Sequel by Various) Submitted by John Pritchard, Asheville, NC

Life in Russia: it still sucks. —From The Gulag Archipelago: The Next Generation (sequel to The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) Submitted by Jesse Ogden

My father became the serial hero for generations of readers who fell in love with him, as these pages will show. —From David Copperfield, Jr. (sequel to David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) Submitted by Sumitra Shah, New York City

Let me clarify: The following is an embarrassing story of foolish excess. —From Liar's Poker: Not a BSD Training Manual (sequel to Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis) Submitted by Lindsay

"Mattannal," shouted Velutha as gloom hit Ammu's face like hot humid air in May with the realization that it will be the Day After Tomorrow. —From The God of Big Things (sequel to The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy) Submitted by Mitul Parekh, Lighting Designer, New York City

It was the most hurried of times, it was the slowest of times, it was the age of Smart Cars, it was the age of Hummers, it was the epoch of the bonus, it was the epoch of the bankrupt, it was the season of Lights, it was the season of Red, it was the spring in my seat, it was the winter of my pants, we had every car before us, we had every truck behind us, we were all going direct to work, we were all dreaming the other way—in short, the highway was so far like life, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on this pair being ticketed, both tortoise and hare, in the super-elite lane marked “HOV only.” —From A Tale of Two Commuters (sequel to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens) Submitted by David Jeffrey, New York City