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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Easiest Summer Reading List Ever!
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 09:44:42 -0400
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On 5/23/25 1:08 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:
> 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
> 

Ah, thank you. That's one of his I've never read.
- Tony