# Fakin' again:  FAKE BOOKS (list or guess 'em)

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/101 "2007-02-19T22:13:47Z")

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I was just reminded of the fictional erotic fiction that Leopold Bloom picks up for Molly in _Ulysses_ — _Sweets of Sin_, by “Paul de Kok” (“Poldy Cock,” if you prefer.)

…and that reminds me that there are numerous references to imaginary literary works in _Finnegans Wake._ The only one that I can call to mind at the moment is _Wine, Woman and Waterclocks,_ or _How a Guy Finks and Fawkes When He Is Going Batty_, by “Maistre Sheames de la Plume.”

(The alternate title is something I mutter to myself whenever my thoughts start to turn particularly green – more frequently than I care to admit.)

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**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fakin-again-fake-books-list-or-guess-em/392061/102 "2007-02-20T01:40:51Z")

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_Notes on the Collecting of Incunabula_ and _The Murderer’s Vade Mecum or 101 Ways of Causing Sudden Death_ by Lord Peter Wimsey.

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