Re: Easiest Summer Reading List Ever!

In article <100n4aj$3esfe$1@dont-email.me>,
 Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/22/25 1:02 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:

In article <m96ho6Fq177U1@mid.individual.net>,
  ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:
 

After a segue into fictional titles mentioned in fiction...

>
Maybe a better list would be
>
The Necronomicon
>
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy
>
Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie
>
Misery's Return

 
I am afraid that I don't recognize the 3rd and 4th titles.

 
The 3rd is from the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes. It's a nighttime book
that Calvin's Dad has read to him a thousand times, but Calvin still
insists.
 
The 4th is from Stephen King's "Misery". When the author of a popular
series kills the protagonist (Misery), a deranged fan kidnaps the author
and forces him to write "Misery's Return".
 
 
I can add

another title, _Dire Dawn_ (though I suspect that not many people have
read the novel that mentioned it)
 

 
Where does that one come from?
Tony

H. Beam Piper's _Ullr Uprising_, see
https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?540473

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