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Orson Scott Card 's The Tales Of Alvin Maker Carnivŕle Little House on the Prairie Alternate History .
The Inheritance Cycle Eragon , are often described as "The plot of Star Wars The Lord of the Rings too "Star Wars " and a little too "The Lord of the Rings "... and a little too Raph ...
It's also been described as "A Star Wars rip-off plot in a Lord of the Rings rip-off world with Earthsea Pern The Warhammer 40,000 Gaunt's Ghosts Warhammer 40,000 Sharpe ", while Ciaphas Cain Warhammer 40,000 Flashman Blackadder Warhammer 40,000 absolutely everything meets absolutely everything ", not so much Darker and Edgier as "paints itself black and hurls itself over the edge ".
A review of Good Omens Book of Revelation as penned by Monty Python's Flying Circus ".
Alexander Gordon Smith's Escape From Furnace is The Great Escape meets Warhammer 40k.
The Judas Strain : National Treasure Die Hard James Bond 28 Days Later , meets G.I. Joe Temeraire Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents The Pied Piper Of Hamelin Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Watership Down The Thursday Next Harry Potter Bridget Jones's Diary Hot Fuzz Monty Python's Flying Circus Last Action Hero WITH BOOKS. And Blade Nick Cave 's And the Ass Saw the Angel is William Faulkner meets Gabriel García Márquez , with foetal alcohol syndrome and lots of moonshine .
World War Z Children of Men , meets Syriana Night of the Living Dead Or Night of the Living Dead as done by Ken Burns.
The Goodness Gene 1984 Brave New World Coraline Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon Alice meets Kafka.
Anthony Trolloppe's The Way We Live Now is Pride and Prejudice Watchmen Pride & Prejudice & Zombies is... Exactly What It Says on the Tin .
The House of Night Twilight Sailor Moon Harry Potter Twilight Bram Stoker's Dracula My Immortal My Immortal Harry Potter )
The Complete World Knowledge Pale Fire Wes Anderson .
Subverted in one review, which said that if Tim Burton reimagined The Phantom of the Opera far short of Neil Gaiman 's Neverwhere The Codex Alera Avatar The Last Airbender Pokémon Rome yeerks Zerg thrown in.
By design. Jim Butcher has said that he was challenged to write a good story that combined the concepts of the Lost Roman Legion with Pokémon Eaters of the Dead Beowulf Beat The Reaper is Burn Notice Goodfellas House darkly as possible.
Stationery Voyagers Heroes Star Trek Veggie Tales The X-Files Underworld Blade Runner DP7 well, you kinda get the idea .
Atlanta Nights The Eye of Argon Dramatic Reading aisle, you'll be able to get some ham with it.
C. S. Lewis and others have described Fanny Price of Mansfield Park Jane Austen novel."
The Looking Glass Wars American McGee's Alice The Lion King The blurbs on The Dresden Files Harry Potter starring Phillip Marlowe." This, as it happens, is dead wrong , since aside from the coincidence of names , the series bears almost no resemblance to Harry Potter. It's more like Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the Old World of Darkness , starring Phillip Marlowe. Incidentally, some of the later blurbs do have this.
Speaking of which, the Nightside The Dresden Files Neverwhere 1984 We Brave New World Darkness At Noon .
Penthouse is Playboy meets Hustler ; Basically the gloss and glamor of Playboy , and the explicit poses of Hustler .
The Lady Grace Mysteries are Trixie Belden meets The Royal Diaries
The Girl Who Owned A City Lord of the Flies Atlas Shrugged Joe Hill 's You Will Hear The Locust Sing is intentionally The Metamorphosis Them! Cross The Amazing Race The Westing Game ,The 39 Clues . The Word And The Void Terminator Urban Fantasy in a Dying Town setting.
A Song of Ice and Fire The War of the Roses set in Middle-earth Alternately, Dune The Third Policeman The Crock of Gold would be if it was retold by Salvador Dali to Mark Z. Danliewski.
The Pendragon Adventure Harry Potter 's American cousin meets Stargate The Time Tunnel Battlestar Galactica (Reimagined) Back to the Future The Matrix Planet of the Apes The Godfather Laura und der Silberwolf (Laura and silver Wolf) is Pan's Labyrinth Medical Drama setting. The Finale is also similar
10 A BOOT STOMPING 20 A HUMAN FACE 30 GOTO 10 Philip K. Dick and told him to come up with his own version of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity ."
Hero by Perry Moore is Sky High X-Men The Incredibles Undead by Kirsty McKay is The Breakfast Club meets Night of the Living Dead during a school ski trip in Scotland.
The Roman Mysteries The author describes it as The Famous Five Nancy Drew Gladiator Chick Tracts Warhammer 40,000 South Park Percy Jackson and the Olympians Classical Mythology Harry Potter The Forest of Hands and Teeth is Night of the Living Dead The Giver Survival Horror meets Dystopia .
Rivers of London Neverwhere The Bill When the Windman Comes is Coraline Bridge to Terabithia Happy Ending .
Captain Underpants Superman The Ren & Stimpy Show Invader Zim Recess Meg Jurassic Park Jaws Artemis Fowl Die Hard The Automatic Detective combines every Film Noir trope with just about every Raygun Gothic trope (albeit, the latter is fairly deconstructed).
Rhymes With Witches is Mean Girls Sabrina the Teenage Witch Flowers for Algernon Gone is X-Men meets Lord of the Flies .
Sorbet Inception Groundhog Day Night of the Living Dead The Hunger Games Lord of the Flies Survivor Harry Potter Young Wizards Grease .
The Musicians (Muzykanci ) by Andrzej Sapkowski is The Bremen Town Musicians The Music of Erich Zann Matched Nineteen Eighty-Four The Giver The Kite Runner A Separate Peace a lot more honest narrator .
Enchantress From The Stars Star Trek meets Avatar
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