Name that fictional book!

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Remember Name That Street, Name that Machine and Name That Pet?

It’s time for Name That Book!

Below is a list of fictional books. These titles are referenced in movies, books, comics, television shows and in other fictional media. Can you name where the fictional book comes from?

Encyclopedia Frobozzica
Handbook for Messiahs
Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie
The Murder of Gonzago
Never Whistle While You’re Pissing
Nymphs and their Ways
Or I Will Sell My Soul For Guilt
The Secret Goldfish
The Case of the Poisoned Doughnut
Confession of a White Widowed Male
Heavy Game in the Western Himalayas
Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure
The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Layover in Anderson, Indiana
Orange Catholic Liturgical Manual
Men of Fire and Women of Air
The Mad Tryst
How to Become a Fancy Waiter in Less Than 20 Minutes
Necronomicon
Speaker for the Dead: The Hivequeen and the Hegemon
Squornshellous Swamptalk
Gadding with Ghouls
The Corpse Danced at Midnight
T and Me
Book of Mazarbul
Twurp’s Peerage
Protocols of the Elders of the Trafalmadore
David Coperfield
Peter Flowerbuck
Curious George and the Ebola Virus
Photons Be Free
Great Machete Battles
Biography of a Dead Cow
Encyclopedia Galactica
Encyclopedia Hypnotica
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
Misery’s Quest
A Coffee Table Book About Coffee Tables
Pop-up Kama Sutra
Electronics for Dogs
A Match Made in Space
De Vermis Mysteriis
Tobin’s Spirit Guide
Attempt at a Uniform and Pragmatic Classification of the Neuroses and Psychoses, Based on an Examination of Fifteen Hundred Pre-Krapaelin and Post-Krapaelin Cases as they would be Diagnosed in the Terminology of the Different Contemporary Schools Together with a Chronology of Such Subdivisions of Opinion as Have Arisen Independently

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Handbook for Messiahs - Illuisons by Richard Bach (ehich, oddly eough is the only book that is in my direct line of sight right now)
Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie - Various locations in the comic Strip Calvin and Hobbes
The Murder of Gonzago - the Play-within-the-play in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The Six Bunny-Wunnies and Their Layover in Anderson, Indiana - from Peanuts - I think he did a whole series of Bunny-Wunnies books
Orange Catholic Liturgical Manual - Dune
Necronomicon - Lovecraft. Many references
The Protocols of the Elders of Tralfamadore - Gotta be Kurt Vonnegut - one of the many books ‘written’ by Kilgore Trout
How to Become a Fancy Waiter in Less Than 20 Minutes - Spongebob Squarepants
Encyclopedia Galactica - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
A Match Made in Space - Back to the Future
Tobin’s Spirit Guide - Ghostbusters

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Necronomicon - The Evil Dead movies?

Speaker for the Dead: The Hivequeen and the Hegemon - Orson Scott Card’s Ender books, not sure which one specifically.

Misery’s Quest - Stephen King’s Misery (about an author of a series of trashy novels with a heroine named Misery)

A Coffee Table Book About Coffee Tables - Seinfeld (Kramer’s book, he demonstrates it to Regis Philbin and Kathy Lee Gifford on their show)

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True, Douglas Adams borrows the name. But Encyclopedia Galactica didn’t come from Hitchhiker’s.

Adams blatantly uses the title to parody a fictional book of the same name, which came from a better-known serious work called… ? :slight_smile:

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The Murder of Gonzago - Hamlet, I believe.

Never Whistle While You’re Pissing - by Hagbard Celine (From the Illuminatus! trilogy)

Twurp’s Peerage - From the Diskworld (Terry Pratchett)\

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The Encyclopedia Galactica figures prominently in the Foundation series.

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Here’s what remains:

Encyclopedia Frobozzica
Nymphs and their Ways
Or I Will Sell My Soul For Guilt
The Secret Goldfish
The Case of the Poisoned Doughnut
Confession of a White Widowed Male
Heavy Game in the Western Himalayas
Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure
Men of Fire and Women of Air
The Mad Tryst
Squornshellous Swamptalk
Gadding with Ghouls
The Corpse Danced at Midnight
T and Me
Book of Mazarbul
David Coperfield
Peter Flowerbuck
Curious George and the Ebola Virus
Photons Be Free
Great Machete Battles
Biography of a Dead Cow
Encyclopedia Hypnotica
The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism
Pop-up Kama Sutra
Electronics for Dogs
De Vermis Mysteriis
Attempt at a Uniform and Pragmatic Classification of the Neuroses and Psychoses, Based on an Examination of Fifteen Hundred Pre-Krapaelin and Post-Krapaelin Cases as they would be Diagnosed in the Terminology of the Different Contemporary Schools Together with a Chronology of Such Subdivisions of Opinion as Have Arisen Independently

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Several of these could be also, but I’m almost certain that’s from a Far Side.

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Encyclopedia Frobozzica - one of the Zork games (though I’m not sure which)
Book of Mazarbul - Lord of the Rings, the history of Khazad-dum
De Vermiis Mysteriis - Various Cthulhu mythos stories…“Jerusalem’s Lot” for one.

Here’s an addition to your list: “Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying”

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Hint: It’s on the shelf next to Olsen’s Standard Book of British Birds.

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Knead To Know, I’m not thinking of The Far Side for “Electronics for Dogs.” This source is animated.

Also, you and jayjay are going to so kick yourselves for not seeing it…

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Biography of a Dead Cow – Bierce.

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Attempt at a Uniform and Pragmatic Classification of the Neuroses and Psychoses, Based on an Examination of Fifteen Hundred Pre-Krapaelin and Post-Krapaelin Cases as they would be Diagnosed in the Terminology of the Different Contemporary Schools Together with a Chronology of Such Subdivisions of Opinion as Have Arisen Independently** – Fitzgerald

The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism – Orwell

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Electronics for Dogs is from Wallace and Gromit (definitely The Wrong Trousers, possibly other episodes as well).
Ethel the Aardvark and Olsen’s British Birds are from a Monty Python skit (don’t forget Grate Expectations, and A Sale of Two Titties).

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Aw, crap. I was mere moments away from that same conclusion on Electronics, Lagomorph.

Note to the curious: the fictional version of Olsen’s is, properly, the Expurgated Version.

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Here is what remains:

Nymphs and their Ways
Or I Will Sell My Soul For Guilt
The Secret Goldfish
The Case of the Poisoned Doughnut
Confession of a White Widowed Male
Heavy Game in the Western Himalayas
Mr. Bunnsy Has an Adventure
Men of Fire and Women of Air
The Mad Tryst
Squornshellous Swamptalk
Gadding with Ghouls
The Corpse Danced at Midnight
T and Me
David Coperfield
Peter Flowerbuck
Curious George and the Ebola Virus
Photons Be Free
Great Machete Battles
Encyclopedia Hypnotica
Pop-up Kama Sutra

Also, check out Name That Ship.

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Well, Encyclopedia Frobozznica is from the old Infocom adventures, either the Zork or the Enchanter series.

De Vermis Mysteriis is from Lovecraft or one of his circle. (So is the Necronomicon, originally. The Evil Dead movies got it from there.)

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And that’s what I get for walking away from my keyboard while others answer… :smack:

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The one without the gannet…

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David Coperfield by Edmund Wells…

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Nymphs and their Ways - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Gadding with Ghouls - * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*