If authors 'covered' books like musicians do songs...

[Voldemort]

...which book/author combo would you most like to see?

[anonymous-user]

Quite a few have already done it. Sebastian Faulks wrote a James Bond novel and Ben Schott wrote a Jeeves and Wooster.

IMHO it very rarely works.

[coppice]

In my early days of writing magazine articles I read like a really , really awful Poundshop Hemingway . I learned that any attempt at aping a style you admire ends up as parody . The Spectator often runs a competition inviting readers to submit something daft (eg report of football match , Trip advisor review etc ) in the style of different authors . Very funny to read a restaurant review in the style of Kafka or Jane Austen

[Stuart70]

pablo said:

Quite a few have already done it. Sebastian Faulks wrote a James Bond novel and Ben Schott wrote a Jeeves and Wooster.

IMHO it very rarely works.

William Boyd did Fleming”s Bond in Solo. Much better than Faulks.

Schott was very good, not Wodehouse, as there was more plot(!),but true to the characters.

Eoin Colfer did a Douglas Adam’s HHGTTG follow on; not so good.

Edited by Stuart70 on Sunday 18th June 07:22

[Stuart70]

Chat gpt does a nice line in style parodies.

Charles Bukowski writes the Simpsons was quite fun. As was Hemingway does Love Island.

Cormac McCarthy doing “chick lit” might be worth a try!

Edited by Stuart70 on Sunday 18th June 07:23

[RB Will]

Was just coming here to start the same thread having just seen a post on Facebook about it. I don't see the question as trying to copy another author's style more who would you like to see reinterpret what story.

Suggestions were things like Hitchhikers Guide by Terry Pratchett.

The only one I can think of already being done from personal experience is Black Beauty rewritten by Spike Milligan which I quite enjoyed.

The Bible by Richard Dawkins would be a laugh.

[p1doc]

RB Will said:

Was just coming here to start the same thread having just seen a post on Facebook about it. I don't see the question as trying to copy another author's style more who would you like to see reinterpret what story.

Suggestions were things like Hitchhikers Guide by Terry Pratchett.

The only one I can think of already being done from personal experience is Black Beauty rewritten by Spike Milligan which I quite enjoyed.

The Bible by Richard Dawkins would be a laugh.

just read spike milligan rewritten version of hound of baskervilles vfunny

[Tango13]

pablo said:

Quite a few have already done it. Sebastian Faulks wrote a James Bond novel and Ben Schott wrote a Jeeves and Wooster.

IMHO it very rarely works.

Kingsley Amis wrote a Bond book too, it's one of the few books I didn't bother to finish.

[ZedLeg]

My favourite is Dorian by Will Self. It’s the picture of Dorian Gray but moved to 80s/90s gay culture.

It’s very good.