The Best of Merged Books (NP at all!)

[Mike Weaver]

Don't know where this originated but I like the concept.
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 >Second Runner-Up:
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 >"Machiavelli's The Little Prince" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic
 >children's tale as presented by Machiavelli. The whimsy of human nature is
 >embodied in many delightful and intriguing characters, all of whom are
 >executed. (Erik Anderson, Tempe, Ariz.)
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 >First Runner-Up:
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 >"Green Eggs and Hamlet" - Would you kill him in his bed? Thrust a dagger
 >through his head?  I would not, could not, kill the King.  I could not do
 >that evil thing.  I would not wed this girl, you see.  Now get her to a
 >nunnery. (Robin Parry, Arlington)
 >
 >And the Winner of the Dancing Critter:
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 >"Fahrenheit 451 of the Vanities" - An '80s yuppie  is denied books. He does
 >not object, or even notice.  (Mike Long, Burke)
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 >Honorable Mentions:
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 >"Where's Walden?"- Alas, the challenge of locating Henry David Thoreau in
 >each richly-detailed drawing loses its appeal when it quickly becomes clear
 >that he is always in the woods. (Sandra Hull, Arlington)
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 >"Catch-22 in the Rye" - Holden learns that if  you're insane, you'll
 >probably flunk out of prep school, but if you're flunking out of prep
 >school, you're probably not insane. (Brendan Beary, Great Mills)
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 >"2001: A Space Iliad"- The Hal 9000 computer wages an insane 10-year war
 >against the Greeks after falling victim to the Y2K  bug. (Joseph Romm,
 >Washington)
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 >"Rikki-Kon-Tiki-Tavi"- Thor Heyerdahl recounts his attempt to prove Rudyard
 >Kipling's theory that the mongoose first came to India on a raft from
 >Polynesia. (David Laughton, Washington)
 >
 >"The Maltese Faulkner" - Is the black bird a tortured symbol of Sam's
 >struggles with race and family? Does it signify his decay of soul along
with
 >the soul of the Old South? Is it merely a crow, mocking his attempts to
 >understand? Or is it worth a cool mil? (Thad Humphries, Warrenton)
 >
 >"Jane Eyre Jordan" - Plucky English orphan girl survives hardships to lead
 >the Chicago Bulls to the NBA championship. (Dave Pickering, Bowie)
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 >"Looking for Mr. Godot"- A young woman waits for Mr. Right to enter her
 >life. She has a loooong wait. (Jonathan Paul, Garrett Park)
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 >"The Scarlet Pimpernel Letter" - An 18th-century English nobleman leads a
 >double life, freeing comely young adulteresses from the prisons of
 >post-Revolution France.
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 >Lorna Dune" - An English farmer, Paul Atreides, falls for the daughter of a
 >notorious rival clan, the Harkonnens, and pursues a career as a giant worm
 >jockey in order to impress her.
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 >"The Remains of the Day of the Jackal" - A formal English butler puts his
 >loyalty to his employer above all else, until he is persuaded to join a
plot
 >to assassinate Charles deGaulle.
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 >"The Invisible Man of La Mancha"- Don Quixote discovers a mysterious elixir
 >which renders him invisible. He proceeds to go on a mad rampage of
 >corruption and terror, attacking innocent people in the streets and all the
 >while singing "To fight the Invisible Man!" until he is finally stopped by
a
 >windmill.
 >
 >"Singing in the Black Rain"- A gang of vicious Japanese druglords beat the
 >shit out of Gene Kelly.
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 >"Fiddlemarch" - Emotionally desiccated medievalist Dr. Casaubon is
 >transformed when everyone in the town reveals that they are Jewish and
start
 >to dance and sing a lot.
 >
 >"Of Three Blind Mice and Men" - Burgess Meredith has his limbs hacked off
by
 >a psychopathic farmer's wife. Did you ever see such a sight in your life?
 >
 >"Planet of the Grapes of Wrath" - Astronaut lands on mysterious planet,only
 >to discover that it is his very own home planet of  Earth, which has been
 >taken over by the Joads, a race of dirt-poor corn farmers who miraculously
 >developed rudimentary technology and evolved the ability to speak after
 >exposure to nuclear radiation.
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 >"Paradise Lost in Space"- Satan, Moloch, and Belial are sentenced to spend
 >eternity in a flying saucer with  a goofy robot, an evil scientist, and 2
 >annoying children.
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 >"The Exorstentialist" - Camus psychological thriller about a priest who
 >casts out a demon by convincing it that there's really no purpose to what
 >it's doing.
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