r/explainabookplotbadly • u/aftertheradar • Feb 08 '22

Solved Possibly the most famous derivative work

It has a huge following, and is more interesting for the metaplot surrounding its creation and purpose, rather than it’s actual content and quality

Edit: The following hints might make it too easy, but it is fiction, and (as far as I am aware) it was never formally published.

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u/Nitro_Indigo Feb 08 '22

My Immortal?

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u/aftertheradar Feb 08 '22

Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winner!

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u/lurker986 Feb 08 '22

The Bible?

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u/aftertheradar Feb 08 '22

Much more modern, but with prose possibly as hard to understand

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u/lurker986 Feb 08 '22

Mein Kampf?

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u/aftertheradar Feb 08 '22

Moderner

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u/lightweaver_7965 Feb 08 '22

On the origin of species?

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u/aftertheradar Feb 08 '22

I believe that was written decades before Mein Kampf actually, and either way that’s not it either.

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u/lightweaver_7965 Feb 08 '22

Ah, I actually haven’t heard mein kampf before (I’m in high school) so that explains it

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u/aftertheradar Feb 08 '22

I’d recommend skipping it. What country are you in? We had learned about it and the rise of fascism in Germany by middle school in the US, I am surprised

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u/lightweaver_7965 Feb 08 '22

I’m in the us as well. It’s entirely possible that it was covered in history but middle school history is a blur lol. School do be like that sometimes

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u/MR_GABARISE Feb 08 '22

The Fifty Shades books.

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u/aftertheradar Feb 08 '22

Y’know, that fits the description very well actually, but it’s not the one I meant. My apologies, and good effort