TPOTS Contest: Your favorite imaginary book?

[ellen_kushner]

One month ago yesterday, THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD audiobook went on sale (on Audible.com and iTunes), courtesy of Neil Gaiman Presents!

To celebrate that, we're running a little contest.***  It has to do with a very important element in TPOTS (yes, I pronounce it "teapots"):  the mysterious book known as
"The Swordsman Whose Name Was Not Death."**

Comments

[kittydesade]

The Princess Bride, by S. Morgenstern.

[hagsrus]

Once upon a time I was in a bookstore and a young man was insisting he wanted a copy of the real book. No, the REAL one!

Staff and customers tried in vain to enlighten him. Ended up with someone suggesting he go across the road to the Jefferson
Library to consult the experts.

Perhaps he's still searching.

[kittydesade]

A friend of mine in high school kept insisting he'd read the real, original one. Eventually, after being unable to convince him, we just patted his head and told him he was adorable and left it at that.

[rockinlibrarian]

I had a friend in college who said the same thing. Maybe it was the same guy.

[taraljc]

Suicide Squid (the greatest comic that never was)

[suzanna_o]

This may not count--I used to think that many of the books referenced in Little Women were imaginary. I was so delighted when I found out that Undine is a real book, and you can find it on Project Gutenberg.

But to imaginary books, Patricia McKillip's novel The Book of Atrix Wolfe is built around a book of spells that has to be my favorite imaginary book.

[jazzfish]

Definitely the edition of If on a winter's night a traveller the narrator of the book is reading.

[ashlyme]

Ooh. "O Time, Your Pyramids" in Borges' "Library of Babel".