Fictional books you want to read.

[Batman]

I've always wanted to read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; that thing is bound to have some weird wild stuff in it. Same with Mr. Burn's autobiography Will There Ever Be A Rainbow, the demonic conjurations it probably has are worth the hardcover price, I bet.


Your turn.

[Baldwin]

Fictional or fictitious? I think either word works.

Well, Prospero had a book I'd like to peek at, though I couldn't read any of the languages.

Still waiting for the publication of Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure.

[The Original An Gadaí]

Up 'til the millennium it was Gray's Sports Almanac from BTTFII.

[pepperlandgirl]

Vixen: Story of a Woman

[OtakuLoki]

I want to see the real Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred. Not read it, of course. I'll pay someone else to read it for me.

[jayjay]

Tobin's Spirit Guide

[DocCathode]

The Philosophy Of Time Travel by Roberta Sparrow

[AllWalker]

The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein. The parts that we are exposed to are quite good - I want to know the rest, dammit!

[Tuckerfan]

The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein. The parts that we are exposed to are quite good - I want to know the rest, dammit!

Its a picture of a boot, pressing down on a human face for a thousand years.

I want to read A Dance Around the Planet by Eugene Fitzpatrick. And Higgin's memoirs.

[Orual]

I've always been interested in the full, unabridged S. Morgenstern version of The Princess Bridge.

I want to read about all the packing, dangit!

[Glazer]

So what's stopping you?

[Orual]

It doesn't exist? ("It" being an 'unabridged', by S. Morgenstern version of The Princess Bride, because the whole thing is a narrative conceit of William Goldman's ...)

[Rube E. Tewesday]

I was going to say "The universal directory for taking alive rats", a book mentioned in one of Patrick O'Brian's books, but a little Googling indicates that that was a real book, published in 1768, as I guess I should have expected of O'Brian.

So, I dunno, maybe something by Kilgore Trout.

[Tuckerfan]

I was going to say "The universal directory for taking alive rats", a book mentioned in one of Patrick O'Brian's books, but a little Googling indicates that that was a real book, published in 1768, as I guess I should have expected of O'Brian.

So, I dunno, maybe something by Kilgore Trout.

Venus on the Half Shell by Kilgore Trout available on Amazon.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

I was going to say "The universal directory for taking alive rats", a book mentioned in one of Patrick O'Brian's books, but a little Googling indicates that that was a real book, published in 1768, as I guess I should have expected of O'Brian.

So, I dunno, maybe something by Kilgore Trout.

Venus on the Half Shell by Kilgore Trout available on Amazon.

Actually, I read that many years ago. I should have stipulated something else from Trout's huge body of work.

[annehere]

Well this whole swine virus thing has got me in the mood for some awesome pandemic stories. I know there are a few of them out there—which is the best?

[Eleanor of Aquitaine]

I was going to say "The universal directory for taking alive rats", a book mentioned in one of Patrick O'Brian's books, but a little Googling indicates that that was a real book, published in 1768, as I guess I should have expected of O'Brian.

How about "Thoughts on the Prevention of Diseases most usual among Seamen" by Stephen Maturin?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

[quote=Eleanor of Aquitaine]

I was going to say "The universal directory for taking alive rats", a book mentioned in one of Patrick O'Brian's books, but a little Googling indicates that that was a real book, published in 1768, as I guess I should have expected of O'Brian.

How about "Thoughts on the Prevention of Diseases most usual among Seamen" by Stephen Maturin?[/quote:2qxzd8q4]


Oooh, good one.

[Tool of the Conspiracy]

So, I dunno, maybe something by Kilgore Trout.

The Book of Bokonon sounds more interesting to me.

Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie
To Serve Man
Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography

[Eleanor of Aquitaine]

Well this whole swine virus thing has got me in the mood for some awesome pandemic stories. I know there are a few of them out there—which is the best?

Are you looking for fiction or non-fiction?

[DocCathode]

To Serve Man

This was published by Owlswick press and available on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Serve-Man-Cookboo ... 1880448823

I have an autographed hard back copy and have met the author and been in his kitchen. It has a framed picture of a giant mantis eating roast man.

[annehere]

Well this whole swine virus thing has got me in the mood for some awesome pandemic stories. I know there are a few of them out there—which is the best?

Are you looking for fiction or non-fiction?

Fiction preferably. But I'd also be game for the real stuff.

[silenus]

I'd like to read Achmed the I-Just-Get-These-Headaches' Book of Humorous Cat Stories.

[Tuckerfan]

I've always wanted to read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; that thing is bound to have some weird wild stuff in it.

Oh yeah, it appears you can.

[CatInASuit]

Up until 1996 it would have been .

Then they actually went and released it.

[Eleanor of Aquitaine]

Well this whole swine virus thing has got me in the mood for some awesome pandemic stories. I know there are a few of them out there—which is the best?

Are you looking for fiction or non-fiction?

Fiction preferably. But I'd also be game for the real stuff.

I have read and enjoyed these:

The Doomsday Book, Connie Willis
The Stand, Stephen King
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
The Plague Tales, Ann Benson

[Emperor Norton]

Tobin's Spirit Guide

IIRC, this is going to be in the upcoming Ghostbusters video game.

[The Logos]

The United Federation of Planets database. In suitably book form, of course. Think of it as a human(oid)-authored Encyclopedia Galactica.

[Paul in Qatar]

SOmewhere in literature is a set of books mentioned in passing, something like "Wilson's Guide to Refreshing Sleep, Volume Six."

[lust4life]

Fat Olly wrote a thriller in Ed McBains precinct stories but I cant remember the title,also fancy reading Dawns and departures in a Soldiers life(I think thats the title) Flashmans biography.

[Baldwin]

I'd like to read Blood on the Badge, by Det. Ron Harris. I understand it "rivals Wambaugh's best."

[Scissorjack]

Fictional or fictitious? I think either word works.

Not really: if I tell the police I live at 221b Baker Street, it's a fictional address; if I tell them I live at 123 Suckmydick Avenue, it's a fictitious one.

And I would like to read Practical Handbook of Bee Culture.

[Baldwin]

Fictional or fictitious? I think either word works.

Not really: if I tell the police I live at 221b Baker Street, it's a fictional address; if I tell them I live at 123 Suckmydick Avenue, it's a fictitious one.

Well, using the most general definition of each word, you could use either word to describe either of those examples. However, as you noted, fictitious has acquired a connotation that makes it better suited to the second instance. (Though in that interpretation, when you tell a cop you live at 221b Baker, it's both fictional and fictitious. Unless you're Gregory House, in which case you're a fictional character giving his real (fictional) address.)

So, the OP title is fine. Carry on.

Although it's a fictional play rather than a fictional book, I'd like to read The King in Yellow. Okay, maybe "like to" isn't the right term. But curiosity might drive me to it.

[crazychop]

The entire play The King in Yellow

[Tuckerfan]

First Lady of the Evening and The Naked Virgin by Irving Sidney.

[OneCentStamp]

I'd like to read the Orange Catholic Bible from Frank Herbert's Dune series.

[SpazCat]

I'd like to read the Orange Catholic Bible from Frank Herbert's Dune series.

Or any of Princess Irulan's biographies and histories of Paul Muad'Dib.

[eleanorigby]

Ok, I'll say it: I want to read Hogwarts: A History.

I can't think of anything else at the moment.

[digs]

I do NOT think it should be legal to write a book and title it after a previous author's fictional tale. What's the fun of wondering what the "Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra" is, once a hack (or any Non-Sir-Arthurian Author) has written it?