SECONDED!!!
I so wanted to read it just for the info. Ancient Evils, Bizarre religions, disgusting descriptions…its like Cosmo without all the ads!
Wouldn’t surprise me at all. I presume you’ve seen Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them, the two slim volumes she wrote for Comic Relief.
Grate Expectations by Edmund Wells, the well known Dutch author.
Also, A Sale of Two Titties.
The Misery novels by Paul Sheldon
The “Maritial” Arts book that King Verence orders.
“Look, that guy’s doing it with his toes!”
ooh! The Great Book of Gummy!
The Seven Minutes mentioned in Irving Wallace’s The Seven Minutes*.
The Book of Rules for Jack Chalker Dancing Gods* book, though he quotes from a lot of it and many of them show up in Diana Wynn Jone’s The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.
The Book of Love “I wonder wonder wonder wonder who . . . who wrote the book of love.”
The novel Grady Tripp was working on in Wonder Boys*.
The complete works of Jessica Fletcher.
Let’s Write a Novel, a how-to book described in David Lodge’s Changing Places. (The other titles in the series are things like Let’s Make a Fly-Tying Kit.)
And definitely The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, as others have mentioned.
Oh, wait, I know!
The Rooster Crowed at Midnight … the mystery novel featured in that one episode of MASH*. We never did get to find out who dunnit!
I’d be interested in thumbing through The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter sometime…
Quoth **Hometownboy
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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!
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Actually, it was the Junior Woodchucks Guidebook. But have you ever thumbed through a real Boy Scout Handbook? They may have exaggerated in Duck Tales, but not by very much. Where else can you find a book that tells you how to bake a potato, swim a mile, treat a third-degree burn, and recognize Orion?
And Sassy, do you mean the one published by the Trantor Foundation, or the one which idly remarks on the intoxicating effects ethanol can have on certain carbon-based life forms?
The Red Book of Westmarch
How to Serve Man
Twilight Zone spoiler:
[Homer]Mmmm . . . Cookbook[/Homer]
In the Mouth of Madness by Sutter Kane. Although I’d probably be too scared to read it.
But one I really would read is The Back-Door of History by Arpud Arutinov. For the longest time I wasn’t sure if that book was real or not. Good old R.A. Lafferty . . . I miss him.
Trantor, of course… I want to learn everything!
Kudos to Chronos (which sounds like a baseball play) for having a better memory and more accurate knowledge of the Barks canon.
It is indeed the Junior Woodchucks Guidebook
to quoth Al Stewart “Is there anything time can’t do?”
Apparently not.
The First Scroll of Wen the Eternally Surprised
and
The Way of Mrs Cosmopilite
What – not Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying? But it’s a classic! 