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Book Sequel Challenge

Here's your chance to imagine the opening line of a sequel to your favorite book. It's easy!

1. Pick a book.
2. Imagine its sequel.
3. Give it a great title.
4. Write the first sentence.

Share your sequel sentences here.

If you'd like your sentence to be considered for publication in Book: The Sequel, a collection of sequel sentences, head to the book's website (www.bookthesequel.com) and click on "Submit Sequel Now."

Oh, and if you need some inspiration to get started, check out ten great first sentences in the mini-version of Book: The Sequel that's already available on DailyLit.

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MaggieH

Posted by MaggieH (admin)
May 21, 2009 12:00 am

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  • Paul Clifford
    Paul Clifford, Redux
    "It was a dark and stormy day..."

    wretchMay 21, 2009 11:26 am
    by wretch

  • War And Peace.
    Love And Eternity
    "Napoleon emerged from the privy, suitably relieved"

    MANICHAEANMay 21, 2009 12:39 pm
    by MANICHAEAN

  • moby dick
    moby dick part 2: THE RETURN!!!!
    Call me Ishmael, jr.

    anon_e_mouseMay 21, 2009 12:58 pm
    by anon_e_mouse

  • The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
    The Gravity of Marmaduke P.Thornbush Currathers Ffrench Smythe.
    "The razor thin cucumber slices, cut in delicate triangles modestly arranged between fresh homemeal bread with the crusts removed were nibbled upon by the ladies suitably arrayed in Lady Palmerstons drawing room in Curzon Street."

    MANICHAEANMay 21, 2009 1:22 pm
    by MANICHAEAN

  • Another Hundred Years of Solitude:
    "Damn, it's starting to get lonely here", thought Col. Aureliano Buendia as yet another shower of gold poured from the skies of Macondo.

    rmdoolittleMay 21, 2009 6:22 pm
    by rmdoolittle

  • The Chiropractor of Notre Dame:
    "The year was 1482, and Dr. Grimsby had just lost his best client."

    themoonglowMay 21, 2009 10:18 pm
    by themoonglow

  • Improbable Madness

    It had to be done...someone had to use knife and execute the killing.

    It would be impossible for the grim festivities to continue without taking a life.
    The knife was thrusted into the fish by a bystander.

    Only then could the glutinous fish fry then begin.

    The End

    BunnyLeeMay 22, 2009 11:52 am
    by BunnyLee

  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
    Is Little Bo Peep an Android?
    "I lost the damned sheep again."

    kidmd2May 22, 2009 9:44 pm
    by kidmd2

  • You know about me now you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Huck Finn; but that ain't no matter.

    From Huck Finn lights out again. by Mark Twain.

    eyewriteMay 22, 2009 11:58 pm
    by eyewrite

  • Catch 22, by Joseph Heller
    Catch 23
    "Yossarian was having a déjà vu; it was love at second sight."

    D.OB.May 24, 2009 4:18 pm
    by D.OB.

  • Sequel to Emma by Jane Austen

    Diminishing Bliss & Something Amiss

    By outward appearances she seemed the picture of contented loveliness as she methodically moved her charcoal pencil across the paper, rendering yet another praiseworthy and extremely mediocre caricature of her unsuspecting subject; while inwardly her mind was diligently scheming and mapping out a precision plan for severing the “perfect” bond between them.

    ladydiMay 25, 2009 7:14 pm
    by ladydi

  • Sequel to A Christmas Carol

    A Halloween Song

    "Marley was no longer dead."

    saturntvMay 27, 2009 11:30 pm
    by saturntv

  • A tale untold..
    sequel to a tale of two cities...Charles Dickens

    Nobody could see the light, nobody could see the darkness; nobody could speak the truth, Nobody could speak a lie; nobody could measure happiness, nobody could measure sadness; nobody could tolerate wealth, nobody could tolerate poverty; nobody could gain by life, nobody could gain by death.

    nishaaJun 1, 2009 2:47 am
    by nishaa

  • The Love Song of J alfred Prufock

    The women stayed. The trousers frayed.

    QuillJun 8, 2009 9:24 am
    by Quill

  • Only the Sun Rises

    "Oh Jake, Oh Jake... Wait... Damn...! Still impotent..."

    Clay1279Jun 19, 2009 4:10 pm
    by Clay1279

  • J Alfred Prufrock .... first it was a POEM (NOT A BOOK as the challenge asked) and second Prufrock has an "r" in it ... MAYBE IT'S JUST MY BEING FRENCH but the misspelling of authors' names and titles of works in here is maddening - if we care anything about literature, then we should respect the spelling of the authors' names and especially the titles of their carefully chosen work! Maybe I'm an uptight French ass but that was how I was taught - if I turned in a paper with such a misspelling I'd get an automatic F no matter how good my paper was.

    elliott57Aug 26, 2009 8:42 pm
    by elliott57

  • Book: Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series-The Last Olympian by Rick Riordian
    Title: Kronos’ Revenge
    First Sentence: Just when Percy thought all would go back to normal, whatever that meant, an ominous glow began to boil to the surface from the deep, dark, chasm of Tartarus.

    sfillnerOct 9, 2009 11:50 am
    by sfillner

  • The Book of Job
    "Die Hard IV: Payback"
    Ron Perlman, playing Satan's teenage son, sets up a "special" blind date between his regular father and the heavenly father

    BashoKatzenjammerFeb 24, 2010 1:41 pm
    by BashoKatzenjammer

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