# Fictitious books/magazines you'd like to read **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872 "2006-05-15T18:29:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/1 "2006-05-15T18:29:17Z")
If I had the chance, I’d want to read _Air Dance_ and _Conway’s Daughter_, the early novels of Ben Mears, a major character in Stephen King’s _'Salem’s Lot_. And the next time I needed to plan a vacation, I’d be sure to consult _Cheese Holidays_, a glossy magazine read by Wallace in Wallace & Gromit’s _A Grand Day Out_. And you? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/2 "2006-05-15T18:38:11Z")
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy of course. Some of Scotty’s technical journals. The Original Red Book of Westmarch. A good start, I could go on for too long. Jim ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/3 "2006-05-15T18:44:05Z")
_Nun’s Life_ , read by the boy in the original _Airplane!_ movie. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/4 "2006-05-15T18:47:59Z")
The Necrotelecomnicon. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/5 "2006-05-15T19:52:09Z")
**What Exit?** beat me to the Hitchhiker’s Guide, but I’ll throw in the Book of Three and the Neverending Story. ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/6 "2006-05-15T19:58:37Z")
Anything by Kilgore Trout. Also, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy from PKD’s The Man in the High Castle. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/7 "2006-05-15T20:01:20Z")
Meta and World’s Finest magazines. The Encyclopedia Galactica. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/8 "2006-05-15T20:07:00Z")
I’d like to read **Electronics for Dogs,** after Gromit is done with it. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/9 "2006-05-15T20:18:02Z")
_Stephen Colbert’s Alpha Force 7: Lady Nocturne- A Tek Jansen Adventure_ ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/10 "2006-05-15T20:31:48Z")
In the play and movie _Sleuth_, one of the lead characters is a pompous, clever writer of a mystery series about a detective named St. John Lord Merridew. If those mysteries existed, I bet I’d love 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/11 "2006-05-15T20:41:49Z")
Non-threatening boys magazine. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/12 "2006-05-15T21:06:31Z")
Runagate Rampart (from the Bas Lag books) ---
**Author:** ![Kyyrewyyoae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Kyyrewyyoae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyyrewyyoae)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/13 "2006-05-15T21:08:48Z")
From the “Other Books by The Daily Show” page of [A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446532681/sr=8-1/qid=1147726991/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-6229698-7537610?%5Fencoding=UTF8): Pardon Me, But Could I Interest You In A Book About Canada? by Samantha Bee The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Get Ready for the Metric System The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Luxembourg: A Citizen’s Guide to Constitutional Monarchy Inaction Jon Stewart’s Anthology of Public Domain Victorian Erotica I wish they were real. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/14 "2006-05-15T21:26:30Z")
My first thought was that I’d love a copy of the **Gray’s Sports Almanac: 1950-2000** from **Back to the Future 2 & 3** , but I don’t think it would do me a whole lotta good these days. Ah hell, I’d love a copy of it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/15 "2006-05-15T21:29:11Z")
Am I really the first with _Quidditch through the Ages_ and _Hogwart’s: A History_? ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/16 "2006-05-15T21:34:23Z")
Am I really the first with _Quidditch through the Ages_ and _Hogwart’s: A History_? ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/17 "2006-05-15T21:44:08Z")
I’m curious to take a peek at the magazine Marge Simpson has been seen to read: Fretful Mother. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/18 "2006-05-15T21:48:49Z")
> [@davenportavenger](#): > > Anything by Kilgore Trout. Also, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy from PKD’s The Man in the High Castle. Am I crazy, or do I have a copy of Venus on a Half Shell by Kilgore Trout on my bookshelf? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/19 "2006-05-15T22:14:12Z")
_Crimeways_ (A Janoth Publication), edited by Ray Milland and published by Charles Laughton in the 1948 film noir _The Big Clock_. If it was half as smart and stylish as the movie, it would have been a cracking good read. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/20 "2006-05-15T22:20:04Z")
I’d like Where God Went Wrong, More of Gods Greatest Mistakes and Who Is This God Person Anyway?. (All from HHGTTG of course) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872.md?page=2)