Re: Easiest Summer Reading List Ever!

On 5/22/25 1:50 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 21/05/2025 12.44, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <100l2ks$2ubig$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/21/25 12:55 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <100kria$2r2j0$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

 

A national media conglomerate[1] put out a summer reading list, aided by
AI. But...
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"In fact, only the last five of the 15 novels on the list are real."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chicago-sun-times-ai-reading-list/

 

For example:
- Since only 5 of them actually exist, you're done when you read those
5. If you want to read more than 5 books, you can choose whatever you
want to read for book 6 and beyond.

 

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

 Douglas Adams refers repeatedly to _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
(an ebook) in the novel of the same name, and in its successors.
 In Poul Anderson's massive future history, Hloch of Stormgate Choth (on
Avalon) wrote their _Earh Book_, which gave its name to a real-life
collection of tales in that setting.
 In John Brunner's _Stand on Zanzibar_, Chad Mulligan wrote _The
Hipcrime Vocab_, which plays a prominent role in the story.
 (RAH mentions "Boyd and Asimov" in, I believe, _Have Spacesuit, Will
Travel_, but that's a real textbook.)
 Frank Herbert's _Dune_ features quotes from _The Orange Catholic Bible_.
 HPL and Clark Ashton Smith both refer to _The Necronomicon_
 There are a couple of works mentioned in Doc Smith:
- _Some Observations Upon Certain Properties of Certain Metals,
   Including Trans-Uranic Elements_, Richard Ballinger Seaton (non-fiction)
- Sybly Whyte's pot-boiler never, as far as I can recall, got a name
 I'd bet that _The Name of the Rose_ has a few titles, but I don't feel
like skimming it. What about Borges (whom I've never read), or PKD?
 

Nice list!
Speaking of Dune, there's also all the stuff quoted from Princess Irulan's "Manual of Muad Dib" (or whatever she called it).
There's also The Encyclopedia Galactica from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation books.
"The Princess Bride" is the "good parts" version of a longer work by S Morganstern.
And I think "There and Back Again" from The Lord of the Rings fits.
Tony