I’ve always wanted a copy of The Monster Book of Monsters.
It was What I Did On My Holidays, and I refused to feel embarrassed that I know that.
Mine used to be The Book of Counted Sorrows but it actually is going to be (or very recently was) published. Weird.
Now I guess it’s How The Ghosts Stole Christmas.
The Gutless Wonder by Kilgore Trout
What about the computer-book carried around by Penny in Inspector Gadget?
Dang! Beat me to it. And I have to add that it’s the book I would most like to OWN. Thanks to Carl Barks, at least we have it as a goal.
The Stone Pillow by Robert A. Heinlein
How’s about The King in Yellow? Not the collection of stories by that title; but rather the book by that title that some of the stories were about. A single glance at its contents will lead to madness and death; and it’s self-referential, to boot! A book called The King in Yellow about a book (but a different one) called The King in Yellow…the mind boggles, more or less.
I’ve GOT the Necronomicon. Hard-bound. Leather. Gilt page edges. Satin ribbon marker. Reeks like a charnel house…or maybe that’s my socks. Looks supercool lying casually around my apartment, though.
The Encyclopedia Galactica
Which one, Asimov or Douglas Adams? There must be others, come to think of it.
I think Oolon Colluphid (author of the God trilogy) also wrote Everything you never wanted to know about Sex but have been forced to find out.
Asimov. From Adams, I’d like the more immediately useful Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Qadgop the Mercotan by Sybly Whyte, of course!
The Daubanus edition of The Dictionary of the Khazars.
And then there’s the Book of Death and the Book of Life from The Mummy and its sequel.
You’ve got to like a book that can raise the dead.
Kewl.
Not only did you beat me to it, but I couldn’t remember the full title (on the other hand, can you really blame me? :)).
I DO remember that it was Commander Coriander Salamander though.
Don’t forget the companion volume, “The Sound of His Wings”.
In mario puzos book “fools die” the character osano who was a world famous author,book reviewer and provacature was writing book for years and had strung the world along for almost decades along with his publisher
When he dies he leaves it to the main character and he finds its just tons of notes and thoughts
Based on the descrption of how he lived the notes would be intersting themselves
Didn’t Hong Kong Fuey (sp?) have some kind of ancient Kung-Fu Manual that he would consult for advise when he found himself falling out of a twenty-story buildings or chained to an anchor at the bottom of a lake and stuff? Something like that would be nice to have.
I’m not a Trekkie, but I imagine if I could get hold of a copy of The Captain’s Log I’d get a good price for it at the next ST convention.
From the Wallace & Gromit clay animation shorts:
The books Gromit the dog reads:
Electronics for dogs
Crime and punishment (Not that one, this is the one written by Fido Dogstoyevsky!)
The Republic by Pluto
And from Wallace:
Cheese tours.