MOVED from MAIN - "sequels" to the classics

[dumbledore11214]

> a_svirn:
> Well, I am not sure, really. I presume, it is fairly recent, but I 
> may be wrong. 
> 
> I did read a very decent continuation of a popular series once –
>  "Thrones, Dominations", it was also approved by the estate of 
> Sayers, and it is actually a "collaboration", so to speak – they 
> found an unfinished manuscript by Sayers and offered another author 
> to finish it. Which she did, and pretty good job it was, I think. 
> Though, of course, I forever wondered which part is Sayers's and 
> which the continuator's.  
> 
> But as for those Darcy books, I leafed through the first one (about 
> taking a wife), and it looked like *very* primitive fanfic.   


Alla:

The best continuation of the famous story that I had ever read was 
the book called "Troy" by Russian author Irina Ismailova. Although 
again I am not sure if I loved the book so much due to its merit or 
because it changes the famous story development the way I always 
wanted it to go ever since I first read "Illiad" as a kid.

I should not call it a continuation, because it is not, it is a 
retelling of the Troyan war, let's put it this way and author plays 
it off very nicely by imagining basically that young historian finds 
in his possession the manuscript, which talks about Trojan war and 
how sometimes it is close to what Homer told in his story and so very 
different in other places.