60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye

[Araciel]

I don't see why anyone would WANT to write a sequel or even talk about this book, but I don't see why I care if they do, so I say let them.

Aside from the fact that it infringes upon someone else's intellectual property without any artistic merit?

As far as I'm concerned, if he wants to write something similar, that's fine. But to explicitly use characters and to market it as a sequel... well, that's pushing it too far.

I hold few things sacred when it comes to intellectual properties. If I write a book and some hack comes along and writes and publishes one based entirely on what I wrote, I don't care. The only thing that would irk me is if he made more money, but to be honest that's a minor consideration since it would simply mean he either wrote a better book or had better marketing/exposure. Also, it may have something to do with the fact that I only write for leisure and to share my ideas, backward though they sometimes may be.