What Is This Book?

[luciano]

Anyways the book was about Santa and this girl that grows up to love him, in a physical way and there's also a Tooth Fairy plot in there. I believe the Tooth Fairy craps out money. The Easter Bunny is there too. If I remember correctly, he's an oversexed lunatic who is jealous of Santa. And Zeus makes an appearance at the end.

Santa Steps Out, which is clearly a book on crack.

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You are awesome (and fast) Auron!

[lefty]

Anybody remember the ABC Afternoon Special called The Great Love Experiment, where the really popular girl (played by Tracy Pollan) does a Pygmalion thing with the class wallflower, who of course exceeds her mentor in the popularity game?

Anyway, I could have sworn, SWORN that that was based directly on a book, or that they did one of those novels to capitalize on the show (kind of like the Pretty in Pink book that came out AFTER the film). I swear I remember reading a book with the same character names. Or am I just crazy???

I had that book. I think it may have been called "The Great Lakeside High Love Experiment". In the movie, everything wrapped up nice and sweet within the one hour allotted time. In the book, however, the popular girl is nearly killed in a car accident, and she loses her boyfriend to the girl she was trying to make popular. I loved that book, but it was so long ago. I just have faint memories. Like the nerdy girl (that eventually became super-popular) loved to run. Alot.

[aims]

Every time I come across used book sales and things I always try to track down two books from my teenage years. Does anyone know a good forum or a good place to ask avid romance readers if they know these two books' authors and titles? All I can do is give the plot.

[lemuralley]

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books has a feature called "Help a Bitch Out" where they post letters they've received from readers about long-lost books, the title of which are unknown. I'd say shoot them an email and maybe they'll post it and see if anybody can come up with anything.

AbeBooks also has a section under Community called "BookSleuth" where you might be able to get some help finding them.

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About a year or so ago I read a book that I absolutely hated. At work we were talking about books that disappointed us and I was trying to describe this book and couldn't remember the author's name or the book's title. One woman was really curious about it but I just couldn't come up with the name.

Okay, part of it takes place in the present and it's very violent, kind of pornishly violent in fact. There are gangsters. One guy is obsessively doing research on Dante Alligheiri's writing of The Divine Comedy because he's convinced there was some sort of mystery about the true authorship.

The other parts take place in Dante's time and it follows him through the years as he struggles to finish The Divine Comedy, and sure enough, someone you wouldn't expect contributed to the work.

Oh, and the author's picture on the back is nightmare inducing. He looks insane. I think it said he also wrote for magazines.

Anyone have a clue? I know my description's extremely vague...

[luciano]

In the Hand of Dante?

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luciano said:

In the Hand of Dante?

That's it! That's it! Thank you, it was driving me nuts! Wow, someone always has the answer around here, don't they?

[Daisy Pusher]

lefty said:

Anybody remember the ABC Afternoon Special called The Great Love Experiment, where the really popular girl (played by Tracy Pollan) does a Pygmalion thing with the class wallflower, who of course exceeds her mentor in the popularity game?

Anyway, I could have sworn, SWORN that that was based directly on a book, or that they did one of those novels to capitalize on the show (kind of like the Pretty in Pink book that came out AFTER the film). I swear I remember reading a book with the same character names. Or am I just crazy???

I had that book. I think it may have been called "The Great Lakeside High Love Experiment". In the movie, everything wrapped up nice and sweet within the one hour allotted time. In the book, however, the popular girl is nearly killed in a car accident, and she loses her boyfriend to the girl she was trying to make popular. I loved that book, but it was so long ago. I just have faint memories. Like the nerdy girl (that eventually became super-popular) loved to run. Alot.

That's it, Lefty! Thank you!

[mariposalabrown]

Someone will get this in a second- what is the book about the guy who read a whole encyclopedia?