# 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:** 2
**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, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/21 "2006-05-15T22:28:05Z")
> [@](#): > > The Encyclopedia Galactica. The one from Terminus, or the one from Sirius? Oh, and a copy of the _Junior Woodchuck Guidebook_ would be nice. And I thought the real thing had information on everything! It’d also be nice to read the Book of Granmyre, from _The Dark is Rising_. Just read it, and poof, you can do magic, no fuss or effort needed. ---
**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, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/22 "2006-05-15T22:37:16Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Am I crazy, or do I have a copy of Venus on a Half Shell by Kilgore Trout on my bookshelf? [/QUOTE] Not crazy. I have a copy on my bookshelf also. Of course it was written by Phillip Jose Farmer. 🙂 [QUOTE=Saltire] Am I really the first with _Quidditch through the Ages_ and _Hogwart’s: A History_? [/QUOTE] Nope, you’re the second. Saltire was the first. 😉 ---
**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, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/23 "2006-05-15T22:59:24Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Am I crazy, or do I have a copy of Venus on a Half Shell by Kilgore Trout on my bookshelf? [/QUOTE] The two are not mutually exclusive, you know. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/24 "2006-05-16T00:01:47Z")
Chinese Kung-fu movies always feature some sort of Kung-fu manual which teach the reader insane martial arts in a very short amount of time. I wouldn’t mind reading one of thes and learning how to leap effortlessly across rooftops and tree branches. And the Necronomicon, because nothing bad could possibly come out of reading that 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/25 "2006-05-16T00:10:35Z")
[QUOTE=Saltire] Am I really the first with _Quidditch through the Ages_ and _Hogwart’s: A History_? [/QUOTE] First _and_ second, apparently. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/26 "2006-05-16T00:21:12Z")
The Book of Shadows, from _Charmed_. If it worked, of course. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/27 "2006-05-16T00:45:15Z")
The story that Lucy reads in the magician’s book in _Voyage of the Dawn Treader_, the one that is the nicest story she ever read, but when she is finished she can’t remember it, nor can she turn the pages back. I’m sure that’s supposed to be a symbol for some religious experience, but I’m thinking of it in a more literal way, like “Man, that was a GOOD story!” ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/28 "2006-05-16T00:45:25Z")
[QUOTE=Cluricaun] Am I crazy, or do I have a copy of Venus on a Half Shell by Kilgore Trout on my bookshelf? [/QUOTE] Me too. (On my bookself and crazy). But if you notice, it sucks. Maybe more pictures of wide open beavers would have improved it. I just want a few hours in the library from Gamian’s Dream. (I have a number of book there.) ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/29 "2006-05-16T00:46:48Z")
Most of the good ones have been taken, so I’ll help myself to Dream’s library, if nobody minds. I’ll tote along a copy of _The Monster Book of Monsters_, _The Joye of Snackes_, _Neil Nosepicker’s Book of 50,000 Insults_, and _Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie_. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/30 "2006-05-16T00:47:55Z")
[QUOTE=Chronos] Oh, and a copy of the _Junior Woodchuck Guidebook_ would be nice. [/QUOTE] That was my first thought. It seemed to contain a \*\*lot \*\* of useful information. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/31 "2006-05-16T00:52:41Z")
Perhaps also \*Mad Trist \* by Sir Launcelot Canning, as mentioned in _The Fall of the House of Usher_. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/32 "2006-05-16T00:58:41Z")
[QUOTE=Malodorous] And the Necronomicon, because nothing bad could possibly come out of reading that 😉 [/QUOTE] [Here](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0380751925/sr=8-1/qid=1147740758/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-9818965-4125507?%5Fencoding=UTF8) you go! It must be a bad translation, it only drove me half-mad, and summoned a demon from Heck. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/33 "2006-05-16T00:59:13Z")
All these other Harry Potter books are great, but I’d like to read the simply titled _Magical Theory_- I want to know why all this works! Oh, and _The Princess Bride_. You know, the uncut one. Not so much to read, but more just to have around, and read little tiny bits from. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/34 "2006-05-16T01:21:16Z")
[QUOTE=appleciders] Oh, and _The Princess Bride_. You know, the uncut one. Not so much to read, but more just to have around, and read little tiny bits from. [/QUOTE] Or it’s sequel, _Buttercup’s Baby_, though it may actually be real I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/35 "2006-05-16T01:29:28Z")
I’d love to read the _Heterodyne Brothers_ and _Trelawny Thorpe, Spark of the Realm_ novels from **Girl Genius** … ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/36 "2006-05-16T01:43:08Z")
_Billy and the Cloneasaurus._ ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/37 "2006-05-16T02:42:42Z")
Now that it’s past the year 2000, I think the _Tome of Eternal Darkness_ should be safe enough to pick up and read. I’d also like to read Al Gore’s wildly popular _Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth_. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/38 "2006-05-16T03:13:02Z")
_Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie_ (did I spell that right?) ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/39 "2006-05-16T04:02:21Z")
The Primer from The Diamond Age, and Ender’s desk. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/40 "2006-05-16T04:38:54Z")
_Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?_–the incipient movie project from _Sullivan’s Travels_. Oh, wait, I already have. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872.md?page=3)