# Fake books I wouldn't mind reading **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203 "2003-04-30T18:52:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thi6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@thi6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thi6)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/21 "2003-05-01T00:45:59Z")
The _Talman_. The bits that Barry Longyear actually wrote are great, now I want the rest. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/22 "2003-05-01T01:13:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scarlett67 \* > \*\*_Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie!_ \*\* This is the first book that came to mind when I saw the thread title. I would love to be able to read this book to my three year old son. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/23 "2003-05-01T01:17:24Z")
Marl Twain was supposed to go to Japan in the 1870s to write a series of travel columns for a San Fransisco (note that I’m kind, & didn’t call it Frisco) newspaper. Twain had done this for Hawaii, & it was brillant journalism, & wildly humorous. The deal fell through. A monumental loss to history & literature. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Nightime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nightime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightime)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/24 "2003-05-01T01:17:48Z")
jr8: > [@](#): > > All those damned stories in If on a winter’s night a traveller that never get finished (yes, I know that’s the point, but even so…) Weird… in my copy they were all finished. You should go buy another one. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/25 "2003-05-01T01:21:31Z")
The complete collection of SF stories by Adolf Hitler, such as _The Thousand Year Rule_, and _The Master Race_, as listed in the fake bibliography in Norman Spinrad’s _The Iron Dream_. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/26 "2003-05-01T01:29:28Z")
Whatever happened to _Rush to the Outhouse_ by Willy Makeit (with a preface by Betty Wont)? Man, what a great read that would’ve been… ---
**Author:** ![WonTon\_Sean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WonTon\_Sean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WonTon_Sean)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/27 "2003-05-01T02:40:31Z")
In the same vein as **tracer** ’s… _My Encounter with a Tiger_ by Claude Baulls ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/28 "2003-05-01T02:54:01Z")
I can’t help myself … _Under the Bleachers_ by Seymour Heine. Regarding works by the esteemed T.S. Garp, I think that The Pension Grillparzer was actually published by Irving in a magazine. Probably I read that in the copyright information. The main character in _A Widow for One Year_ is also a novelist, but I don’t recall having the same craving to read her books, as I did for Garp’s. Of course, I positively lust for Garp, so perhaps that has something to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_the\_CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_the\_CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_the_CC)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/29 "2003-05-01T03:00:44Z")
_Hogwarts, A History_ comes instantly to mind. ---
**Author:** ![jeanster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@jeanster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeanster)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/30 "2003-05-01T03:38:57Z")
**Only a Factory Girl, by Rosie M. Banks** [http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2000/01/11/wodehouse/](http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2000/01/11/wodehouse/) ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/31 "2003-05-01T04:49:28Z")
_Encyclopedia Galactica_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/32 "2003-05-01T04:55:10Z")
- The Wit and Wisdom Of George W. Bush \* But I’ve heard it’s pages are blank. 😃 I’m so bad. ---
**Author:** ![AgentofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@AgentofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AgentofEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/33 "2003-05-01T05:28:31Z")
Jacob’s Shadow by Andrew Hammond. The book in Deus Ex you keep finding small extracts from. It sounds so cool. But it doesn’t exist. Argh. ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/34 "2003-05-01T05:42:22Z")
I second _Hogwarts, A History_. She mentions it so often I get the feeling she’s toying with writing it, possibly at the end as a supplement. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/35 "2003-05-01T05:52:55Z")
Damn, Sassy beat me to my favorite! How about the “Necronomicon Ex Mortis”? No, not the one from Lovecraft (that one’s real), the one from the Evil Dead trilogy. Failing that, I’ll settle for the long lost tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra…Timmy ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/36 "2003-05-01T06:15:04Z")
Some of the above would be nice, but for a book of a thousand uses, give me The Junior Woodchucks Handbook Now **there’s** a book! ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/37 "2003-05-01T06:28:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scarlett67 \* > \*\*_Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie!_ \*\* Don’t forget Mabel Syrup’s exciting sequel, _Commander Coriander Salamander and 'er Single-Hander Belly Lander_! ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/38 "2003-05-01T06:30:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tangent \* > \*\*In _The World According to Garp_, the title character is an author and there is mention of some of the novels and stories this character writes. There are even some passages from these stories included in the real novel, but I remember that as I was reading _Garp_ I kept thinking, “I’d really like to read more of what Garp has written.” Even though he’s just a fictional character. \*\* You can. Two of the stories “Garp” writes are thinly veiled versions of two of Irving’s early novels, “The 158 lb. Marriage” and “Setting Free the Bears”. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/39 "2003-05-01T06:38:54Z")
Dawns and Depatures of a Soldiers Life by Sir Harry Flashman, especially he supressed volume two. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203/40 "2003-05-01T06:53:30Z")
_The Hive Queen and the Hegemon_, by the Speaker for the Dead. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-books-i-wouldnt-mind-reading/172203.md?page=3)