# Have you read the sequel to "101 Dalmatians"?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** books-writing-myths\
**Created:** [June 4, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-read-the-sequel-to-101-dalmatians/943650 "2021-06-04T23:27:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 6, 2021, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-read-the-sequel-to-101-dalmatians/943650/21 "2021-06-06T18:28:12Z")

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> [@kaylasdad99](#):
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> The Radcliffes’ plan was to found a _Dalmation Plantation_ . Once they’ve trained the dogs to work the cotton fields, the place ought to be self-sustaining. -

That plan is spotty, at best.

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**Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-read-the-sequel-to-101-dalmatians/943650/22 "2021-07-03T06:41:56Z")

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I remembered this thread when I saw a reference to Smith’s _I Capture the Castle_ (in _The Sense of an Ending_ by Julian Barnes). Several copies of her books, including _The Starlight Barking_, are available to borrow on the Internet Archive:  
[https://archive.org/search.php?query=“smith%2C%20dodie”](https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22smith%2C%20dodie%22)

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**Post date:** [July 3, 2021, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-read-the-sequel-to-101-dalmatians/943650/23 "2021-07-03T18:35:39Z")

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They go to Cruella DeVil’s house to _kill_ her?! That cat is pretty hardcore. Reminds me of the original novel of _The Wizard of Oz_. It had a triple-digit body count.

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**Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-read-the-sequel-to-101-dalmatians/943650/24 "2021-07-04T22:00:33Z")

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I haven’t read the book but the synopsis of the plot made me think of David Bowie’s _The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars_ but with dogs. The two works aren’t directly alike but they do seem to share some key elements. (I wonder if Bowie read “The Starlight Barking” beforehand.)

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**Post date:** [July 5, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-read-the-sequel-to-101-dalmatians/943650/25 "2021-07-05T23:23:14Z")

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Yup, read it as a child. It’s definitely weirder than the original, but I enjoyed it. (Um, I haven’t tried it again for many, many years. So I might think differently about it now!)

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