# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/41 "2006-05-16T05:10:22Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] _Stephen Colbert’s Alpha Force 7: Lady Nocturne- A Tek Jansen Adventure_ [/QUOTE] Alpha Squad, actually. I’d like to read that too- it sounds like the awfulness would be very very funny. [QUOTE=What Exit?] Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy of course. [/QUOTE] Can I choose a song? I’d like to hear the songs the Krikkiters sing in one _Life, the Universe and Everything_. Adams writes that following of the first of these fictional tunes > [@](#): > > Arthur could almost imagine Paul McCartney sitting with his feet up by the fire on evening, humming it to Linda and wondering what to buy with the proceeds, and thinking probably Essex. Two supposedly better ones follow. He writes of the fourt hand last song… > [@](#): > > From somewhere at the back of the crowd a single voice started to sing a tune which would have enabled Paul McCartney, had he written it, to buy the world. I’ve been listening to the White Album lately, does it show? ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/42 "2006-05-16T05:10:42Z")
[QUOTE=Kat] _Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie_ (did I spell that right?) [/QUOTE] Damn, you took mine! I’d also want to hear the version Calvin’s father tells him when he’s sick of telling it (“Do you think they’ll ever find Hamster Huey’s head?”) ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/43 "2006-05-16T05:28:05Z")
[QUOTE=bouv] _Billy and the Cloneasaurus._ [/QUOTE] Oh, you have _got_ to be kidding, sir. [QUOTE=Kat] _Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie_ (did I spell that right?) [/QUOTE] I always wanted to read that too. We didn’t find out too much about what actually happened in that book…except for the ‘abridged’ version Calvin’s dad read one night, after which Calvin (I think) wondered if the townsfolk would ever find Hamster Huey’s head. Heh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Othersider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cab0a1/32.png) [@Othersider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Othersider)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/44 "2006-05-16T05:29:17Z")
And apparently I didn’t notice the post immediately before mine saying the exact same thing. D’oh! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/45 "2006-05-16T10:36:40Z")
I would like to nitpick the OP: “fictitious” means false or intending to deceive; “fictional” means occurring in a work of fiction. 123 Fake Street is a fictitious address; 221b Baker Street is a fictional one. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2006, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/46 "2006-05-16T11:20:52Z")
Any of those books on the shelves during the opening credits of Blackadder III. _From Black Death to Black Adder_, _Encyclopaedia Blackaddica_, et. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/47 "2006-05-16T11:34:14Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] Can I choose a song? I’d like to hear the songs the Krikkiters sing in one _Life, the Universe and Everything_. [/QUOTE] _The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (Tertiary Phase)_ Radio Show has one of the Krikkit songs on it- it is indeed very McCartney-esque. The Fictional Books I’d like to read: \*The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy The Encylopaedia Galactica Oolon Colluphid’s Trilogy of Philosophical Blockbusters The Book Of Armaments The Complete Datalinks from Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri The Blackadder Library The Space Corps Directives Manual\* ---
**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:** [May 16, 2006, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/48 "2006-05-16T12:09:50Z")
[QUOTE=MacSpon] I’d love to read the _Heterodyne Brothers_ and _Trelawny Thorpe, Spark of the Realm_ novels from **Girl Genius** … [/QUOTE] My Brother! 🙂🙂🆒🆒 I recall a collection of Kryptonian Fairy Tales…also, the Nemedian Chronicles. ---
**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:** [May 16, 2006, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/49 "2006-05-16T12:11:22Z")
[QUOTE=Case Sensitive] I would like to nitpick the OP: “fictitious” means false or intending to deceive; “fictional” means occurring in a work of fiction. 123 Fake Street is a fictitious address; 221b Baker Street is a fictional one. [/QUOTE] Which reminds me…how about the contents of Dr. Watson’s tin dispatch box, containing all the unpublished cases? ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/50 "2006-05-16T12:22:24Z")
[QUOTE=Dooku] The Book of Shadows, from _Charmed_. If it worked, of course. [/QUOTE] Personally, I’d go for ‘The wizard’s manual’, from the Diane Duane books. 😃 Though… I wonder how much of it you can actually read and understand without taking the Oath. That’s kind of a kicker. I’m not sure I want to be obligated to lay down my life to preserve the jungles of Rierhath B, or whatever. [sub]And, of course, I’m too old to become a Wizard now, anyway. ☹ [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/51 "2006-05-16T13:13:01Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir] Me too. (On my bookself and crazy). But if you notice, it sucks. Maybe more pictures of wide open beavers would have improved it. [/QUOTE] Hmmmm…I thought it the hight of Sci-Fi writing when I was twelve, but that may be because it had both spaceships AND sex robots. ---
**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 16, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/52 "2006-05-16T13:51:53Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Which reminds me…how about the contents of Dr. Watson’s tin dispatch box, containing all the unpublished cases? [/QUOTE] Yes! YES! How could I have forgotten? :smack: June Thomson has written a great series of pastiches drawing from that long-lost dispatch box, gathering dust in the vaults of Cox & Co. Check 'em out - you’ll be glad you did. ---
**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 16, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/53 "2006-05-16T14:59:32Z")
_Dawns and Departures_ - Harry Flashman plus the rest of his unpublished memoirs. I want to know what he did in the Civil War, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2006, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/54 "2006-05-16T21:03:30Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] _Dawns and Departures_ - Harry Flashman [/QUOTE] Sadly, it was lost to history when all copies were destroyed at the printers at Benjamin Disraeli’s behest, presumably on the grounds of libel: a real shame, Sir Harry’s expurgated and sanitised autobiography would have been a hoot. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/55 "2006-05-17T02:56:12Z")
[The Book of Skulls](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Skulls). Although on second thought, the book itself doesn’t do you much good without the Brotherhood to actually train you. ☹ Still might be a fascinating read though. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/56 "2006-05-17T04:06:23Z")
I just thought of another: The Diaries of Korval. Of course, first I’d have to learn to read Liaden, and then I’d probably have to marry into the clan to get a look at them. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/57 "2006-05-17T05:47:19Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield] _The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (Tertiary Phase)_ Radio Show has one of the Krikkit songs on it- it is indeed very McCartney-esque. [/QUOTE] I really should find those things. I doubt they’ll ever make a movie of _Life…_, but I always imagined that if they did, that voice in the back of the crowd would be revealed as Sir Paul in a super-brief cameo. ---
**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 17, 2006, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/58 "2006-05-17T06:06:19Z")
The Book of Vile Darkness and Book of Exalted Deeds from D&D - the actual tomes, from the game worlds, not the rule suppliments carrying the names. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/59 "2006-05-17T12:04:57Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23] I really should find those things. I doubt they’ll ever make a movie of _Life…_, but I always imagined that if they did, that voice in the back of the crowd would be revealed as Sir Paul in a super-brief cameo. [/QUOTE] [Audible.com listing for the tertiary phase.](http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=PF_BBCW_000475) They also have the 4th and 5th radio phases. Personally, I felt a little disappointed by the krikkiter songs in Tertiary, probably because I had expectations too high… after all, they’d been set up as Uber-McCartney, songs that were several times better than anything he’d ever written. What we got was ‘vaguely pleasant Beatles-like music’ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872/60 "2006-05-17T12:09:39Z")
[QUOTE=chrisk] [Audible.com listing for the tertiary phase.](http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=PF_BBCW_000475) They also have the 4th and 5th radio phases. [/QUOTE] Doh… stupid audible website, doesn’t seem to want to let me direct-link. But you can go to [http://www.audible.com](http://www.audible.com) and search by keyword ‘tertiary’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictitious-books-magazines-youd-like-to-read/356872.md?page=4)