# Fakin' again: FAKE BOOKS (list or guess 'em) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2007, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061 "2007-02-13T19:36:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/41 "2007-02-14T00:28:07Z")
**Where God Went Wrong Some More of God’s Greatest Mistakes Who Is This God Person Anyway? Well, That About Wraps It Up For God** All by _Oolon Colluphid_. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/42 "2007-02-14T00:29:30Z")
Dang. :mad: :rolleyes: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/43 "2007-02-14T00:36:05Z")
[QUOTE=MacSpon] Dang. :mad: :rolleyes: 🙂 [/QUOTE] Double dang. 10 freaking minutes late and two people beat me to it. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/44 "2007-02-14T00:37:08Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] I really, really thought that the thread title said “FAKE BOOBS.” I’m not sure if it’s a case of being too tired to browse or simply wishful thinking. [/QUOTE] Me too. Didn’t realize my mistake until after I read the OP . . . twice. Frankly, I think “FAKE BOOBS” would be a much more interesting thread. I had it in mind that this thread would be like a contest to see who could best pick out which boobs were fake and which were natural. Right after I (mis)read the thread title, I thought to myself: “Ooh, I’m gonna win.” ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/45 "2007-02-14T00:39:47Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] **The Book Of Shadows** from _Charmed_. [/QUOTE] Yes and no on that one. A book of shadows is simply a book of rituals and spells kept by a witch or coven. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/46 "2007-02-14T00:44:38Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Bongo] Most of the titles mentioned here were discussed, along with others, like the myriad of nonexistent works cited by Jorge Luis Borges in his short fiction. The most well known of those is probably the **Book of Sand** , which has an infinite number of pages, so that you can flip through it and never see the same page twice. Then there’s the **Encyclopedia of Tlon** , which . . . hell, I can’t even _begin_ to explain that one! [/QUOTE] On the subject of Borges, surely the most widely read imaginary book is Pierre Menard’s _Don Quixote_. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/47 "2007-02-14T00:50:20Z")
**Take a Bloke Like Me No Particle Forgot The Skull of Glass Hear Me Punnin’ to Ya** All by Hugh Rowe, and all unfinished. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/48 "2007-02-14T01:02:46Z")
The unexpurgated **Joye of Snacks** by “A Lancre Witch.” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/49 "2007-02-14T07:06:54Z")
**The Keener’s Manual** ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/50 "2007-02-14T07:09:47Z")
**Mad Trist** , by Sir Launcelot Canning ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/51 "2007-02-14T07:15:41Z")
[QUOTE=Scribble] _Quiddich Through the Ages_, from the Harry Potter series. Oh, and there are also all of Harry’s textbooks, Mrs. Weasley’s recipe book, etc. [/QUOTE] Most importantly: _Hogwarts: A History_. Said with a really know-it-all tone, of course. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/52 "2007-02-14T08:46:34Z")
A comic book called(I think)_The Adventures of Leech Man and Slug Boy_ from the **FoxTrot** comic strip. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/53 "2007-02-14T09:15:28Z")
Quite a few by Alan Moore: **Memoirs of a Military Intelligencer** (by Campion Bond) **Behind the Mask Weeping Gorilla The Black Freighter** ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/54 "2007-02-14T12:48:41Z")
[QUOTE=Birdmonster Venus on the Half-Shell[/QUOTE] Well technically…it does exist. I have a copy. There it is right over there on my bookshelf. Of course it wasn’t wrtiten by Kilgore Trout. But the Middlemarch wasn’t tecnicallly written by George Eliot. Speaking of which The Key to all Mythology is a fake book. I could think of others but I do know I have severals shelves of my own books in Dream’s library. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/55 "2007-02-14T14:03:35Z")
Of course, there’s always the [Ultimate Fake Book](http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Fake-Book/dp/0793529395). But it’s not a fake book. I mean, it is, but it isn’t. I mean . . . oh, heck. The main character in **What Entropy Means to Me** is writing a book about his brother’s quest adventure, though I don’t recall the title. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/56 "2007-02-14T14:34:23Z")
[QUOTE=xnylder] My favorite is _Edmund: A Butler’s Tale_ by Gertrude Perkins. “A searing indictment of domestic servitude in the eighteenth century, with some hot gypsies thrown in.” [/QUOTE] You mean that big papery thing tied up with string? ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/57 "2007-02-14T14:53:04Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] You mean that big papery thing tied up with string? [/QUOTE] Yes, exactly like the thing we burnt. ---
**Author:** ![Sutremaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@Sutremaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sutremaine)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/58 "2007-02-14T22:38:11Z")
[QUOTE=Sarahfeena] Dean Koontz has his **Book of Counted Sorrows,** which he has quotations from in many of his novels. [/QUOTE] I always wondered about that one. **I Want To Be Your Canary** , written by the noted playwright Lord Avon. It is performed at the beginning and end of the game, and plays a part in moving the story along. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2007, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/59 "2007-02-14T22:50:02Z")
**Dawns and Departures of a Soldier’s Life** , **Twixt Cossack and Cannon** , and **The Case Against Army Reform** by Sir Harry Flashman. ---
**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:** [February 14, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/60 "2007-02-14T22:58:11Z")
**The Nemedian Chronicles** –from Robert E. Howard’s _Conan_ series. **Unaussprechlichen Kulten** aka **Nameless Cults** aka **The Black Book** , from Howard’s contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061.md?page=4)