介绍:
Listeners, let me ask you a question first: have you ever heard about the following books: Cat Hairs in the Custard, The Purpose of Clothing Is to Keep Us Warm, or Being Inc.? Do they sound familiar?
Doesn't ring a bell? That's because these titles do not exist in the real world. You can't find them at your local bookshop or kindle store, since they only appear in real books, served as the condiment of the plot.
Sometimes, if given enough time or sufficient encouragement, novelists would pluck these made-up stories from the fictional minds and turn them into something very real. But on most occasions, these non-existent books remain fictional.
But what's the appeal of these fake books? What are the best books-within-a-book that we ever read? And why writers, regardless of the era, would be willing to spend time to weave an elaborate dream that never comes true?
So in the next half an hour, our reporters and book reviewers are going to talk about their favorite invisible books. Please stay with us.
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Fictional books that are mentioned in this program:
1. Harry Potter franchise by J.K. Rowling
1) Tales of Beedle the Bard (already published)
2) Quidditch Through the Ages (already published)
3) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (already published)
4) Tom Riddle's Diary
5) The Secrets of the Darkest Art
6) The Monster Book of Monsters
7) The Invisible Book of Invisibility
8) Magical Me series
2. The Necronomicon by Mad Arab Abdul al-Hazred, from H.P. Lovecraft's books
3. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy and its sequels by Douglas Adams
1) The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy (the travel guide itself)
2) Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Sex But Have Been Forced to Find Out
3) Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Guilt But Were Too Ashamed to Find Out
4) Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demented Universe
4. The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, from The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
5. The Magdalene Diaries, from The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
6. The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, from George Orwell's 1984
7. The Book of Sand, The Garden of Forking Paths, and many other works from Jorge Luis Borges' writings
8. If On A Winter's Night A Traveler by Italo Calvino
(The title is a book-within-a-book)
9. The story about the Escapist from Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
(You can actually find the comic The Escapists by Brian K Vaughan on Amazon)
10. Travels with My Cat by Mike Resnick, from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction magazine
11. The Encyclopedia Galactica, from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
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