Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza, Day #3

Brave New Hamlet
Should the Prince of Denmark do something about his annoying stepfather, or will Soma help?
Stacy Korn-Luebke

The Catch-22 in the Rye
Yossarian’s bomber strays off course and wipes out the post-war Irish whiskey crop.
Gary Presley

How Green Was My Giant
An epic saga of a big jolly kid in a Texas coal mine.
Jack Shakely

Rumpole’s Last Burnt Out Case
Suffering from spiritual exhaustion, Horace Rumpole leaves his London law practice to travel up the Congo, where he ends up working in a leprosarium run by Catholic priests.  However, when one of the Fathers is accused of murder, Rumpole must call on his rusty courtroom skills to defend him.
Mithras Somasundrum

Portnoy’s Complaint About the Naked and the Dead
Philip Roth’s daring expose of Mailer’s plagiarism of Henry Miller and Faulkner.
Gary Presley

The Sea Wolf Wears Prada
Can Humphrey van Weyden learn the secrets to pleasing his boss and find his own fashion sense?
Stacy Korn-Luebke

The Notebook from the Underground
Erstwhile teen lovers go into hiding for two days to pen a raging diatribe against the social-climbing Old South that broke them up. Nobody cares.
Sue Z. Smith

Moby Dick and Jane
An albino Balaenoptera musculus kidnaps a young school girl and attempts to extort a cessation of whale-hunting in international waters.
Gary Presley

The Devil and David Copperfield
A young man searches for a sense of family and a way to save his soul in Victorian England.
Stacy Korn Luebke

Dark Passages
Humphrey Bogart discovers his inner self and immediately disguises it with plastic surgery.
Sheldon

Literary Mash-Up Extravaganza, Day #2

The Maltese Windup Bird Chronicle
When his cat goes missing, Sam suspects the Falcon. But before initiating pursuit, he stops by his neighbor’s house to have psychic sex. Cold comfort indeed!
Sue Z. Smith

Pride and Premeditation in Cold Blood
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man who pays in cash, must be in possession of a safe.
Stacy Korn-Luebke

Generation X-Files
A bunch of depressed teenagers get motivated to find out why the government is hiding information about extraterrestrials. Or whatever.
Agatha Monteleon

Travels With My Plant
The life of staid bank manager Henry Pulling changes forever on being visited by his eccentric aunt Augusta.  Who is a triffid.
Mithran Somasundrum

Little, Big House on the Prairie
Laura and Mary are at first perplexed and then intrigued by proof of fairies in their garden. . .until the fairies turn freaky, kidnap them, and force them to live in an abandoned apartment building in New York City.
Matthew Blue

One Flew Over the Atlas Shrugged
Randle P. McMurphy reads Rand to his detriment.
Gary Presley

Interview with the Vampire Slayer
Buffy’s day just got brighter.
Bumbleboo

Pride and Extreme Prejudice
Elizabeth Bennett becomes an assassin and kicks ass on that Heathcliff guy.
Sheldon

Lust for Life of Pi
A Pondicherry zookeeper cuts off his ear and takes up painting tigers on velvet.
Jack Shakely

On the Road Less Traveled
Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy take the wrong turn and get lost in the woods. When they run out of bennies, they eat whatever strange-looking mushrooms they can find and sit up all night babbling unintelligibly to each other, later remembering those random babblings as incredible speeches of mind-altering profundity.
Nick