# Fake Literary Recommendations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2013, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-literary-recommendations/671307 "2013-10-15T14:38:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-literary-recommendations/671307/41 "2013-10-19T15:08:09Z")
“You should definitely buy this book, rather than downloading it onto your Kindle or waiting for the movie, if only because you can’t kill bugs with a movie and you can’t put your Kindle under the leg of a wobbling table.” - Dave Barry ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-literary-recommendations/671307/42 "2013-10-20T17:50:09Z")
“Instead of having a cow, read this book”–Bart Simpson “Best. Book. I. Have. Reviewed. Ever”–Comic Book Guy “Okeyle Dokeyle, this book is smokely”–Ned Flanders “Mmmmmm…reading this book”–Homer Simpsons “While reading this book I was so enthralled I forgot to light my cigarette”–Patty Bouvier “Me too”–Selma Bouvier “Everyone should buy it cause Montgomery Burns loved it”–Waylon Smithers “Read this book…BURP”–Barney Gumble “This book gave me a good chuckle”–Dr. Julius Hibbert “Ha! Ha!”–Nelson Muntz ---
**Author:** ![Tess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Tess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-literary-recommendations/671307/43 "2013-10-21T20:33:45Z")
“Dark stuff, man. I mean _dark_.” - H.P. Lovecraft ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-literary-recommendations/671307/44 "2013-10-21T21:12:28Z")
Not bad, but of course, it’s all based off of stuff I wrote years ago. - Steve Allen ---
**Author:** ![Detroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Detroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Detroit)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-literary-recommendations/671307/45 "2013-10-29T19:34:10Z")
This book is “magical”. J.K. Rowling. “FASCINATING”. Mr. Spock. “Better than 49 Shades of Gray.” Anonymous “This Book is Like a Box of Chocolates.” Forest Gump ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-literary-recommendations/671307/46 "2013-10-30T15:21:50Z")
"Dentists will hate you for reading this book"Area Mom “Please ignore my last book, this might actually work” Karl Marx ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-literary-recommendations/671307/47 "2013-10-30T15:25:24Z")
“…and the book comes with a handy incendiary strip so it can be used as a torch-bomb when the zombies come for you.” --Max Brooks ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-literary-recommendations/671307/48 "2013-10-30T15:55:12Z")
“Hurry and read this before I ruin the movie adaptation!” – M. Night Shyamalan ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-literary-recommendations/671307/49 "2013-10-30T16:41:29Z")
more poetic than t. s. eliot. more popular than j. k. rowling – e. e. cummings ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-literary-recommendations/671307/50 "2013-11-05T20:13:56Z")
“I finished this book in one sitting, for which I give thanks and praise to Jesus Christ my personal Lord and Savior.” - Tim Tebow ---
**Author:** ![willthekittensurvive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/91b2a8/32.png) [@willthekittensurvive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/willthekittensurvive)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-literary-recommendations/671307/51 "2013-11-06T21:05:37Z")
"Read this book to find out if the Kitten survives " Erwin Schrödinger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-literary-recommendations/671307.md?page=2)