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Carry on.
Any of the Discworld books involving Rincewind from the point of view of The Luggage. I know that Interesting Times, which I haven’t read yet, does some of this when The Luggage thinks that Rincewind has relinquished ownership, but many of the earlier books never get into the actual mind of The Luggage itself even when it is on it’s own. Everything is presented from a third person omniscient perspective of The Luggage basically trying to get back to it’s owner.
The events of Adams’ Hitchhiker’s books as observed by the multiply and remarkably short-lived Agrajag. Granted, there probably wouldn’t be much of a storyline, mostly vignettes more along the lines of “A Day in the Life (Death?) of…”
And then The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Okay, just kidding about that one. (For those who haven’t read it, the point of view switches between first, second, and various third person views involving the thoughts of probably 100 or so characters, many of whom show up for one page and are promptly forgotten. And each character is really just another incarnation of the narrator itself, who is self-proclaimed as being the collective consciousness of all living beings. Although, a book devoted to Howard the Dolphin’s perspective on all the events that transpired would no doubt be interesting.)
The Lion, The Wardrobe, and Me.
An Edisonade told from the perspective of the people who have to deal with the traipsing little snot who invented the book’s MacGuffin.
Lord of the Rings from the perspective of Saruman. Why did he think he could handle the Ring? What made him different from Gandalf?
Fahrenheit 451 as told from the perspective of Captain Beatty, the only person who really seemed to understand the specific censorship regime of the society (in a way few people now seem to, in fact) and approve of it.
Naked Lunch from the perspective of someone capable of thinking. (Yes, this is a joke.)
How about GWTW from the point of view of Melanie Hamilton Wilkes? Scarlett presents her as a stupid ninny, yet she gets done what needs to get done, fights the Yankees, the war, poverty, hunger and still remains a true southern lady. I’d love to read about her sex life with Ashley!
I was going to mention The Three Musketeers, but from the point of view of Cardinal Richelieu - these foolish, lazy, adulterous aristocrats (e.g. the Queen and Buckingham) are sending people to their deaths needlessly while I’m trying to run a government here and stop people from fighting in these bloody stupid duels!
Oh come on! You know what we really need is:
Severus Snape and the Bratty Kid
Severus Snape and the Cocky Parseltongue
Severus Snape and the Meddling Fool
Severus Snape and the Triwizard Cheater
Severus Snape and the Patsy Dunce
Severus Snape and the Plagizarizing Teacher’s Pet
Severus Snape and the Ungrateful Hero
As a Snape fan since about halfway through the second book, I’m ashamed I didn’t think of this. I now intend to parrot it mercilessly.
I have heard that in Bradbury’s play of 451 he included a few scenes which flesh out the good captain- apparently he’s a nihilist bibliophile. In the play you get to see his apartment- it looks like that of the heroine from Read Or Die.
I’m always frustrated that in Le Guin’s Earthsea books, you never get back into the hero’s head after the first one- and he is really the only character that knows what is going on.
Wouldn’t that last one end rather abruptly?
And in a similar vein, though actually realized, have you ever wondered about the
Gospel according to Jesus Christ? Heartily recommended!
I read that. Don’t bother.
I read that, too. Do bother.
Also, “The Deathbird” by Harlan Ellison doesn’t retell any particular events of the Bible, but it’s one of my favorite 'Story from another perspective’s.
There was a story that appeared in the Vampirella Magazine, in which our hero wakes up to find himself turned into a horrible half lizard/half man creature so that he could rescue the beautiful princess from a ugly old witch. Turns out, the old witch was simply protecting her from harm and that the princess wanted to die. So in the end he kills her and he turns back into what he was before-a lizard. :eek:
Actually, back to Hornblower, it could be interesting to read Beat to Quarters from the POV of El Supremo. I mean, who wouldn’t want to read a book about the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, and his loyal ally, Captain Horatio Hornblower, liberating Nicaragua from the decadent Spanish?
Slaughterhouse V, from Roland Weary or Paul Lazzaro’s point of view.
Ever had one of those really weird half-awake dreams, been jolted awake by your alarm clock at 7am, stumbled around on autopilot for a few minutes trying to decide whether to make coffee or brush your teeth, then realised that you didn’t actually have to be at work at all today because you swapped with Jenny so she could go and see her kids’ recital, so you decide to go back to bed for a few more hours since it’s so nice and warm there and it looks like it’s going to rain and be cold outside?
That would, I think, sum up Call of Cthulhu from Cthulhu’s viewpoint, I think. 
Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince lets other characters tell their version of the story in fairly lengthy postscripts. As I recall (and it’s been a long time), they pretty much destroy what we’ve learned through the main character throughout the novel. I recall being fairly shocked when I read the postscripts.
Ender’s Game, from a third point of view.
I’d like to get the story of Final Fantasy 7 from Sephiroth’s point of view.
The Threadspotting link (“Call Me Moby Dick”) brought me here to recommend one of my favorite books, Ahab’s Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund. While not the Moby Dick story from her point of view, it is a story about the wife of one of literature’s most famous characters. Turns out her life was at least as exciting as old Ahab’s. More, actually.
How’s about “IT” told from the POV of Pennywise?