# Books never written. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958 "2016-08-06T18:00:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/1 "2016-08-06T18:00:04Z")
I was perusing past threads and ran into [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=626049&highlight=heinlein) by **Darth Nader** , which got zero replies. So let’s try it again: What “teased but never written” books would you like to read? Personally, I want the missing chapters of Harry Flashman’s memoirs, _Scouting For Trolls_ and _Raising Taxes_ by PTerry and yes, the one **Darth** mentioned. You? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/2 "2016-08-06T18:21:29Z")
True crime writer once said she’d like to write a book about the Stayner brothers – Steven, who was kidnapped and held by pedophile Kenneth Parnell for seven years, and Cary, who was a serial killer. She never did. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/3 "2016-08-06T18:23:08Z")
Mary Webb never hinted at it, but Precious Bane cries out for a sequel. I mean, so Kester rescued her from the ducking stool just as the townspeople were trying to drown her for a witch … AND WHAT HAPPENS THEN? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/4 "2016-08-06T19:05:25Z")
ObMention: _Dangerous Visions III_. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/5 "2016-08-06T19:12:30Z")
I wanna read _Stu the Cockatoo is New at the Zoo_. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/6 "2016-08-06T19:58:13Z")
I would have liked to have read Sherlock Holmes’ _Case of the Giant Rat of Sumatra_, “a story for which the world is not yet prepared.” (Of course, there have been pastiches by other authors.) ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/7 "2016-08-06T20:03:18Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I wanna read _Stu the Cockatoo is New at the Zoo_. Along similar lines, I’m eager to read _Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying_. ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/8 "2016-08-06T20:21:48Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I was perusing past threads and ran into [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=626049&highlight=heinlein) by **Darth Nader** , which got zero replies. > > So let’s try it again: What “teased but never written” books would you like to read? Personally, I want the missing chapters of Harry Flashman’s memoirs, _Scouting For Trolls_ and _Raising Taxes_ by PTerry and yes, the one **Darth** mentioned. > > You? You’ve got my list . I’d especially like to see how Flashman served on both sides during the American Civil War . And the Holmes stories casually alluded to by Watson . ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/9 "2016-08-06T20:55:38Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > True crime writer once said she’d like to write a book about the Stayner brothers – Steven, who was kidnapped and held by pedophile Kenneth Parnell for seven years, and Cary, who was a serial killer. She never did. Was it Ann Rule? There are books about the brothers, albeit separate stories. I’ve seen things about the “10 Worst-Selling Books” and they all had titles like “Lose Weight Slowly By Eating Less And Exercising”. 😛 Between Rule 34 and Godwin’s Law, I’m sure there’s a book about everything, somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/10 "2016-08-06T21:02:53Z")
Samuel Pepys expressed an intention to write a second diary about his later years, but didn’t. He lived 34 more years. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/11 "2016-08-06T21:08:31Z")
Everything that would have been written by Stieg Larsson, whose Millenium Trilogy was published posthumously after his death at age 50. I consider it to be the greatest literary work of his generation. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/12 "2016-08-06T21:14:02Z")
Alexei Panshin wrote the (wonderful!) “Anthony Villers Trilogy,” three very thoughtful, very witty, and totally fun novels. At the end of the third book, there is a blurb for the upcoming fourth – which, alas, Panshin never wrote. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/13 "2016-08-06T21:15:38Z")
John 21:25. > **[Bible Gateway passage: John 21:25 - New International Version](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2B21:25)** > > Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. (No, it’s not a variation of Ezekiel 23:20, you goofballs! 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/14 "2016-08-06T21:20:35Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Alexei Panshin wrote the (wonderful!) “Anthony Villers Trilogy,” three very thoughtful, very witty, and totally fun novels. At the end of the third book, there is a blurb for the upcoming fourth – which, alas, Panshin never wrote. Yes, instead he’s spent forty years minutely rewriting, extending and justifying his peculiar writings about Heinlein. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/15 "2016-08-07T01:28:16Z")
[_Vulcan Love Slave_](http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Vulcan_Love_Slave). ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/16 "2016-08-07T01:36:12Z")
Christopher Moltisanti’s autobiography “Ton’, I’m Sorry” ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/17 "2016-08-07T01:39:11Z")
Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/18 "2016-08-07T02:37:39Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie Sorry… it’s on Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/19 "2016-08-07T03:23:34Z")
Buttercup’s Baby, the sequel to the Princess Bride. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958/20 "2016-08-07T03:27:25Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Everything that would have been written by Stieg Larsson, whose Millenium Trilogy was published posthumously after his death at age 50. I consider it to be the greatest literary work of his generation. I won his first book, and gave up after about 15 pages. It just didn’t make any sense to me. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-never-written/761958.md?page=2)