Talk:Fictional book
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[edit] List of fictional books
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I've removed the bizzare redirect from Talk:List of fictional books. You might want to move any relevant discussion text over to that talk page, and keep this one for discussing Fictional book -- Colin Harkness°Talk 08:18, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
- I copied it over. Not sure whether to delete it from here, so I didn't. Karen | Talk | contribs 09:33, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
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- I did ;) --Quiddity 19:35, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Necronomicon
/ was going to do the Necronomicon. --Litefantastic 16:39, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- I don't want to seem too Arkhamcentric, but I can't think of another fictional book in literature that's as widely used in stories or written about. --Cecropia 18:47, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Monty Python's bookshop sketch
On the Monty Pyton album "Contractual Obligation Album" there is a sketch featuring John Cleese and Marty Felman in which Feldman enters a bookshop and makles a series of increasingly ridiculous requests of Cleese, from "David Copperfield by Charles Dikkens with two K's, the well-known Dutch author" to "The Amazing Adventure of Captain Gladys Stout-Pamphlet and Her Interpid Spaniel Stig Among the Giant Pygmies of Beccles". A list of these would provide a much-needed opportunity to link to the article about the gannet. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.52.193.8 (talk • contribs) .
[edit] Prod on List of fictional books
I must say I strongly disagree with this prod and threatened deletion. The list is well organized with headings and subheadings, and is a handy place to look up titles of these nonexistent works, and compare the modest tally invented by some authors with the extensive lists invented by others. Many are joke titles, so reading down the list (particularly the sections of Douglas Adams and other humorous writers) is entertaining as well as instructive for seeing what has been done with this convention. Furthermore, the use of fictional books helps to define the nature of the world of the real work in which is appears - absurd, regimented, religious, philosophical, or whatever. The purposes of fictional books as narrative devices are largely covered in the parent article. While I do think the parent article probably should be cleaned up a bit to focus more on the device and less on specific authors, the list article seems pretty solid to me, and should not be deleted. I'm not comfortable removing an admin's prod, though, so I thought I'd start a discussion here. Karen | Talk | contribs 07:59, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- I strongly agree with Mavarin.
- Plus anyone who makes their way to a "list of fictional books" in the first place, is looking for some kind of overwhelmingly 'bibliophilic' experience... :) --Quiddity 08:27, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
- Bibliomaniacs unite -- you have nothing to lose but your shelf space!! --Bookgrrl 03:10, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
