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I forgot – the aforementioned blog also lead me to Fiction Mash-Ups, which are generally hilarious. Among the best:
Sixth Sense and Sensibility
Turns out she’s a ghost.
A Separate War and Peace
Set in a boy’s school during the Napoleonic Wars.
Room With a View to a Kill
Merchant-ivory production, with Helena Bonham-Carter as bond girl.
The Runaway Bunny Jury
John Grisham’s first book for children. “Once there was a little bunny who wanted to sue gun manufacturers for turning a blind eye to illegal distribution of their products. So he said to his mother, ‘I am suing gun manufacturers for turning a blind eye to illegal distribution of their products.’ And his mother said, ‘If you do that, they will hire flashy jury consultants and you will lose your case.’ ‘If I lose the case,’ said the little bunny, ‘I will change my identity and travel around the country trying to infiltrate juries until I win.’ ‘If you do that, they will trash your apartment,’ said his mother.
The Tuscan Sun Also Rises
Cooking, gardening, home-remodelling, bullfights.
The Sum of All Fears and Loathings in Las Vegas
A nuclear bomb is planted on American soil in the midst of an escalation in tension with the Soviet Union in an attempt to rekindle cold war animosity and prevent reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. Then the ether kicks in…
All the King’s X-Men
A populist southern governor (Patrick Stewart) leads a team of mutant superheroes before being assassinated.
The Grapes of the Wrath of Kahn
Kahn returns from exile to prevent a family of overwrought hillbillies from making it to the Laker game.
How Green Was My Valley of the Dolls
Drugged-out Hollywood starlets find renewed purpose in welsh coal mines.
Long Day’s Journey Into Night Shift
Dysfunctional family experiences series of implausible horrific vignettes.
A Pale Fire Upon The Deep
Novel in the form of a critical study of a poem that is the only a remnant of an ancient galaxy-dominating intelligence.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For The Cat In The Hat
Case study of a cognitive disorder caused by a mysterious cat that visits children that are left home alone.
Remains of the Longest Day
An old-style English butler is drafted to cater the invasion of Normandy.
Guns, Germs and Steel Magnolias
Five friends seek a feminist interpretation of technology, empire and the war of northern aggression.
Seven Pillars of the Wisdom of Big Bird
For very junior executives.
Good to Great Expectations
Management guru in an old wedding dress guides a young boy on the path to success.
The DaVinci Code of the Woosters
In which aunt Agatha is discovered to be a member of Opus Dei and Jeeves demonstrates the correct way to serve afternoon tea from a holy grail.
Tales of the City of God
More racy gay confessions from Augustine.
Faerie Queene of the Damned
Edmund Spenser’s attempt to curry favor with the white-complexioned goth set.
Middlesex and the City
Candace Bushnell needs to tell you something….
House Harkonnen of Sand and Fog
A noble is evicted from the planet Arrakis and starts a tragic conflict with the planet’s new owners.
Up the Watership Down Staircase
A funny and touching story of a committed, idealistic high school bunny rabbit.
The Way The Things They Carried Work
Children’s pictorial guide to the functioning of Vietnam era military hardware.
Gentle Ben-Hur
A boy in ancient Rome rescues a lost bear, who convinces him to engage in chariot races with his past enemies.
The Magnificent Seven Ambersons
Several generations of a prominent but snobbish and troubled midwestern family fight to defend their town against incredible odds.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Can Wait
More melodrama than you can shake a stick at.
Tropic of Cancer Ward
More sex than you’d expect.
Tender is the Night Porter
Nazi asks forgiveness.
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars My Destination
Five struggling artists share a studio and discuss teleportation, rape, tattooing and synaesthesia.
Dr. No Exit
What would hell be like for 007?
The Man from U.N.C.L.E Vanya
Retired secret agents sit around the samovar griping about lost love, old age, and declining property values.
The King and I Capture the Castle
Upon Anna’s urging, the King of Siam to removes his family to a crumbling castle in England for safekeeping. Once there, he falls in love with her materialistic sister. (Alternately, The King and I, Robot)
Gone with the Wind in the Willows
Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara embarks on an adventure with Mr. Toad, a different kind of rebel. “Frankly, Mole, I don’t give a dam.”
Gaudy Night of the Living Dead
Harriet Vane returns to Oxford only to find it overrun with zombies.
Heart of Darkness at Noon
English explorer misreads map, winds up in gulag.
The Remains of the Day of the Triffids
Aging butler tours postwar England. Takes up gardening.
The Handmaid's Tale of Two Cities
It was the best ... no, it really just was the worst of times.
Divine Comedy of Errors
Hell, twins, purgatory, mistaken identity, heaven, silly weddings.
Long Day’s Journey Into Twelfth Night
Eugene O’Neil, cross-gartered and gin-soaked most villainously.
Little, Big Dorrit
Girl raised by fairies for reasons unknown in Victorian prison bigger on inside than outside. Dickens rails against the practice.
The Joy Luck Fight Club
Chinese American daughters and mothers bond over fist fights, family history, dim sum and bouts of anarchy.
Negotiating with the Dawn of the Dead
In this sequel, no-one is left alive but literary critics.
Of Stupid White Mice and Men
Searing indictment of the vast albino mouse conspiracy that controls America.
Go Ask Alice in Wonderland
Teen girl becomes drug addict, takes the trip of her life.
Mossflowers for Algernon
Algernon is transported to Redwall, where he's made to think up genius ideas on how to save everyone from evil cats/rats/etc.
From Russia With Love Story
James Bond discovers that the love of his life has a terminal illness. Mind your sides!
On the Road to Wigan Pier
Author meets working-class people, borrows money.
To Sir with Love in the Time of Cholera
Two people finally get it on after years of fannying around. Soundtrack features Lulu.
The Forever War and Peace
Napoleonic wars! With clones!
A Suitable Butcher Boy
Enormously long, everyone dead at the end.
Green Eggs and Hamlet
Breakfast's off in the state of Denmark.
The Red and the Black Beauty
Ambitious young Frenchman shoots horse.
The Player of Patriot Games
Set in a anarchist/right-wing future where a government agent infiltrates a mysterious game organised by the IRA.
Little House of Leaves on the Prairie
Pa and Almanzo enter a cabin that mysteriously is larger on the inside than outside.
The Maltese Falcon and the Snowman
A pair of affluent American boys trade sought-after bird statue for cocaine and cash to Russians.
Life, the Universe, and Everything Is Illuminated
Tragicomic space opera about Arthur Dent's search for his ancestors, and the translations of a babelfish gone bad.
The Chocolate War and Peace
Young man's struggle against French prep-school tyranny proves futile after author's fifty-page epilogue proves that free will doesn't exist, anyway.
The Canterbury Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Kids in bus on way to and from a field trip compete to tell the best story. The winner gets fudge.
Tale of the Body Thief of Time
Lestat finds himself trapped in Uberwald when a dimension-hopping member of the undead steals his body.
A Little Princess Diaries
The secret diary of Sara Crewe, detailing her transformation from scullery maid to heir to the throne of a small European principality.
Ender's Game of Thrones
A child genius plays political games in an elaborate fantasy world.
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Mrs. Miniver
A British housewife during the blitz imagines she is Eleanor of Aquitaine in heaven.
The Dark Tower is Rising
A series of books wherein a mysterious and world-weary man on a quest leads a motley band of followers through dangerous worlds and times.
I Am Legend of the Fall
Destructive rivalry between three brothers over a beautiful woman in Montana is resolved by all but one of the characters turning into vampires.
The Phantom Tollbooth Menace
A novelization. "Milo. I am your father."
The Bell Jarhead
A terse study of one woman's gulf-war depression.
The Milagro Beanfield War of the Worlds
The aliens finally break containment in Roswell.
The Merry Stepford Wives of Windsor.
Shakespearian bedroom farce - with added robots.
Poor Richard III's Almanac
Folksy wisdom on how to become King of England.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of the Secret History
While roaming the Forbidden Forest engaged in a mystical bacchanalian ritual, Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione accidentally kill a centaur. Draco Malfoy finds out, so they feed him to the Whomping Willow. However, they feel really, really bad about it afterward.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Pale Fire
As part of an pan-European inter-school tournament, Harry Potter is asked to write and defend a dissertation on a 999-line poem. Viktor Krum wins.
All the King's Men in the High Castle
A corrupt populist Southern governor has a change of heart and writes a book about a world where the US won World War II.
The Old Man and the Wild Sargasso Sea
Old man catches fish just off Dominica, ends up being driven mad by marriage to superstitious, prejudiced Englishman.
The Hardy Boys from Brazil
Teen detectives actually result of Nazi experiment.
Invisible Man in the Iron Mask
"At least I think he's still in there..."
Rabbit Run Silent Run Deep
A Child's Garden of Satanic Verses
The Old Man and the Seabiscuit
Gulliver’s Travels with Charley
Inherit the Wind in the Willows
While I was Gone with the Wind
Cold Comfort Animal Farm
A Study in Scarlett
A Brief History of the Wheel of Time
Gone with the Wind in the Door
The Long Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Portrait of a Lady and the Tramp
The Dark is Rising Up and Rising Down
The Name of the Rose for Emily
Being and Time Enough For Love
A Wrinkle In Time’s Arrow
Left Behind the Green Door
The Little Difference Engine that Could
The Unbearable Lightness of Being John Malkovich
A Streetcar Named Desire Under the Elms
The Color Purple Out of Space
The Neverending Story of O
Of Mice and Men of Steel, Women of Kleenex
The Spanish Prisoner of Azkaban
A Clockwork Orange is not the Only Fruit
Soldier of the Mists of Avalon
The Velveteen Rabbit at Rest
Uncle Tom Jones’ Cabin
Cat's Eye on a Hot Tin Roof.
The Horse and His Boy and His Dog
The Third Man of La Mancha
And the absolute victor, as far as I’m concerned:
Goodnight Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Goodnight penal colony on the moon. Goodnight earth controlling the penal colony on the moon. Goodnight supercomputer named Mike.
Runners-Up:
Now We Are Slaughterhouse Five
A Swiftly Tilting Planet of the Apes
Sixth Sense and Sensibility
Turns out she’s a ghost.
A Separate War and Peace
Set in a boy’s school during the Napoleonic Wars.
Room With a View to a Kill
Merchant-ivory production, with Helena Bonham-Carter as bond girl.
The Runaway Bunny Jury
John Grisham’s first book for children. “Once there was a little bunny who wanted to sue gun manufacturers for turning a blind eye to illegal distribution of their products. So he said to his mother, ‘I am suing gun manufacturers for turning a blind eye to illegal distribution of their products.’ And his mother said, ‘If you do that, they will hire flashy jury consultants and you will lose your case.’ ‘If I lose the case,’ said the little bunny, ‘I will change my identity and travel around the country trying to infiltrate juries until I win.’ ‘If you do that, they will trash your apartment,’ said his mother.
The Tuscan Sun Also Rises
Cooking, gardening, home-remodelling, bullfights.
The Sum of All Fears and Loathings in Las Vegas
A nuclear bomb is planted on American soil in the midst of an escalation in tension with the Soviet Union in an attempt to rekindle cold war animosity and prevent reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians. Then the ether kicks in…
All the King’s X-Men
A populist southern governor (Patrick Stewart) leads a team of mutant superheroes before being assassinated.
The Grapes of the Wrath of Kahn
Kahn returns from exile to prevent a family of overwrought hillbillies from making it to the Laker game.
How Green Was My Valley of the Dolls
Drugged-out Hollywood starlets find renewed purpose in welsh coal mines.
Long Day’s Journey Into Night Shift
Dysfunctional family experiences series of implausible horrific vignettes.
A Pale Fire Upon The Deep
Novel in the form of a critical study of a poem that is the only a remnant of an ancient galaxy-dominating intelligence.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For The Cat In The Hat
Case study of a cognitive disorder caused by a mysterious cat that visits children that are left home alone.
Remains of the Longest Day
An old-style English butler is drafted to cater the invasion of Normandy.
Guns, Germs and Steel Magnolias
Five friends seek a feminist interpretation of technology, empire and the war of northern aggression.
Seven Pillars of the Wisdom of Big Bird
For very junior executives.
Good to Great Expectations
Management guru in an old wedding dress guides a young boy on the path to success.
The DaVinci Code of the Woosters
In which aunt Agatha is discovered to be a member of Opus Dei and Jeeves demonstrates the correct way to serve afternoon tea from a holy grail.
Tales of the City of God
More racy gay confessions from Augustine.
Faerie Queene of the Damned
Edmund Spenser’s attempt to curry favor with the white-complexioned goth set.
Middlesex and the City
Candace Bushnell needs to tell you something….
House Harkonnen of Sand and Fog
A noble is evicted from the planet Arrakis and starts a tragic conflict with the planet’s new owners.
Up the Watership Down Staircase
A funny and touching story of a committed, idealistic high school bunny rabbit.
The Way The Things They Carried Work
Children’s pictorial guide to the functioning of Vietnam era military hardware.
Gentle Ben-Hur
A boy in ancient Rome rescues a lost bear, who convinces him to engage in chariot races with his past enemies.
The Magnificent Seven Ambersons
Several generations of a prominent but snobbish and troubled midwestern family fight to defend their town against incredible odds.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Can Wait
More melodrama than you can shake a stick at.
Tropic of Cancer Ward
More sex than you’d expect.
Tender is the Night Porter
Nazi asks forgiveness.
The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars My Destination
Five struggling artists share a studio and discuss teleportation, rape, tattooing and synaesthesia.
Dr. No Exit
What would hell be like for 007?
The Man from U.N.C.L.E Vanya
Retired secret agents sit around the samovar griping about lost love, old age, and declining property values.
The King and I Capture the Castle
Upon Anna’s urging, the King of Siam to removes his family to a crumbling castle in England for safekeeping. Once there, he falls in love with her materialistic sister. (Alternately, The King and I, Robot)
Gone with the Wind in the Willows
Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara embarks on an adventure with Mr. Toad, a different kind of rebel. “Frankly, Mole, I don’t give a dam.”
Gaudy Night of the Living Dead
Harriet Vane returns to Oxford only to find it overrun with zombies.
Heart of Darkness at Noon
English explorer misreads map, winds up in gulag.
The Remains of the Day of the Triffids
Aging butler tours postwar England. Takes up gardening.
The Handmaid's Tale of Two Cities
It was the best ... no, it really just was the worst of times.
Divine Comedy of Errors
Hell, twins, purgatory, mistaken identity, heaven, silly weddings.
Long Day’s Journey Into Twelfth Night
Eugene O’Neil, cross-gartered and gin-soaked most villainously.
Little, Big Dorrit
Girl raised by fairies for reasons unknown in Victorian prison bigger on inside than outside. Dickens rails against the practice.
The Joy Luck Fight Club
Chinese American daughters and mothers bond over fist fights, family history, dim sum and bouts of anarchy.
Negotiating with the Dawn of the Dead
In this sequel, no-one is left alive but literary critics.
Of Stupid White Mice and Men
Searing indictment of the vast albino mouse conspiracy that controls America.
Go Ask Alice in Wonderland
Teen girl becomes drug addict, takes the trip of her life.
Mossflowers for Algernon
Algernon is transported to Redwall, where he's made to think up genius ideas on how to save everyone from evil cats/rats/etc.
From Russia With Love Story
James Bond discovers that the love of his life has a terminal illness. Mind your sides!
On the Road to Wigan Pier
Author meets working-class people, borrows money.
To Sir with Love in the Time of Cholera
Two people finally get it on after years of fannying around. Soundtrack features Lulu.
The Forever War and Peace
Napoleonic wars! With clones!
A Suitable Butcher Boy
Enormously long, everyone dead at the end.
Green Eggs and Hamlet
Breakfast's off in the state of Denmark.
The Red and the Black Beauty
Ambitious young Frenchman shoots horse.
The Player of Patriot Games
Set in a anarchist/right-wing future where a government agent infiltrates a mysterious game organised by the IRA.
Little House of Leaves on the Prairie
Pa and Almanzo enter a cabin that mysteriously is larger on the inside than outside.
The Maltese Falcon and the Snowman
A pair of affluent American boys trade sought-after bird statue for cocaine and cash to Russians.
Life, the Universe, and Everything Is Illuminated
Tragicomic space opera about Arthur Dent's search for his ancestors, and the translations of a babelfish gone bad.
The Chocolate War and Peace
Young man's struggle against French prep-school tyranny proves futile after author's fifty-page epilogue proves that free will doesn't exist, anyway.
The Canterbury Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Kids in bus on way to and from a field trip compete to tell the best story. The winner gets fudge.
Tale of the Body Thief of Time
Lestat finds himself trapped in Uberwald when a dimension-hopping member of the undead steals his body.
A Little Princess Diaries
The secret diary of Sara Crewe, detailing her transformation from scullery maid to heir to the throne of a small European principality.
Ender's Game of Thrones
A child genius plays political games in an elaborate fantasy world.
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Mrs. Miniver
A British housewife during the blitz imagines she is Eleanor of Aquitaine in heaven.
The Dark Tower is Rising
A series of books wherein a mysterious and world-weary man on a quest leads a motley band of followers through dangerous worlds and times.
I Am Legend of the Fall
Destructive rivalry between three brothers over a beautiful woman in Montana is resolved by all but one of the characters turning into vampires.
The Phantom Tollbooth Menace
A novelization. "Milo. I am your father."
The Bell Jarhead
A terse study of one woman's gulf-war depression.
The Milagro Beanfield War of the Worlds
The aliens finally break containment in Roswell.
The Merry Stepford Wives of Windsor.
Shakespearian bedroom farce - with added robots.
Poor Richard III's Almanac
Folksy wisdom on how to become King of England.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of the Secret History
While roaming the Forbidden Forest engaged in a mystical bacchanalian ritual, Harry Potter, Ron and Hermione accidentally kill a centaur. Draco Malfoy finds out, so they feed him to the Whomping Willow. However, they feel really, really bad about it afterward.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Pale Fire
As part of an pan-European inter-school tournament, Harry Potter is asked to write and defend a dissertation on a 999-line poem. Viktor Krum wins.
All the King's Men in the High Castle
A corrupt populist Southern governor has a change of heart and writes a book about a world where the US won World War II.
The Old Man and the Wild Sargasso Sea
Old man catches fish just off Dominica, ends up being driven mad by marriage to superstitious, prejudiced Englishman.
The Hardy Boys from Brazil
Teen detectives actually result of Nazi experiment.
Invisible Man in the Iron Mask
"At least I think he's still in there..."
Rabbit Run Silent Run Deep
A Child's Garden of Satanic Verses
The Old Man and the Seabiscuit
Gulliver’s Travels with Charley
Inherit the Wind in the Willows
While I was Gone with the Wind
Cold Comfort Animal Farm
A Study in Scarlett
A Brief History of the Wheel of Time
Gone with the Wind in the Door
The Long Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Portrait of a Lady and the Tramp
The Dark is Rising Up and Rising Down
The Name of the Rose for Emily
Being and Time Enough For Love
A Wrinkle In Time’s Arrow
Left Behind the Green Door
The Little Difference Engine that Could
The Unbearable Lightness of Being John Malkovich
A Streetcar Named Desire Under the Elms
The Color Purple Out of Space
The Neverending Story of O
Of Mice and Men of Steel, Women of Kleenex
The Spanish Prisoner of Azkaban
A Clockwork Orange is not the Only Fruit
Soldier of the Mists of Avalon
The Velveteen Rabbit at Rest
Uncle Tom Jones’ Cabin
Cat's Eye on a Hot Tin Roof.
The Horse and His Boy and His Dog
The Third Man of La Mancha
And the absolute victor, as far as I’m concerned:
Goodnight Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Goodnight penal colony on the moon. Goodnight earth controlling the penal colony on the moon. Goodnight supercomputer named Mike.
Runners-Up:
Now We Are Slaughterhouse Five
A Swiftly Tilting Planet of the Apes
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Is it wrong that I find this actually an intriguing idea?
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Also, I think Iain Banks actually wrote that novel, or something like it.
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Brilliant. Just brilliant. I also very much enjoyed Guns, Germs, and Steel Magnolias and Little, Big Dorrit. Thanks for posting these!
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Oh, well, just once, anyway:
David Copperfield Shrugged.