For those seeking a fun, fast read on their PDAs, I recommend Greg Beatty's The Art of Impossible Wonders: Eight Books That Aren't. For some time now, Greg has been contributing to Eggplant Literary Productions's Library, a collection of reviews and fragments from books that don't exist on our plane of existence. Greg's best contributions to this imaginary library were put together for The Art of The Impossible Wonders.

As a fan of H.P. Lovecraft, I got a kick out of the description of the Necronomicon.exe virus. And as somebody with a taste for kink, the Zombie Kama Sutra review was a definite hoot. That said, I thought the funniest pieces were the review of Gene Talk, a Car Talk kind of radio program dealing with home-brew genetics, and The Greatest of Alchemical Texts: The Sound of Music, an inspired mis-reading of the Julie Andrews classic.

Each piece runs a couple hundred words - like I said, it's a fast read - but the ideas are presented with a fullness that indicates Greg's thought out each premise and found the best jokes possible from them. Hopefully another, larger collection will be made available as Greg continues to contribute to the imaginary library. Personally, I'd like to see Jameson on Jameson: Pornstar Jenna Discusses Frederic's Postmodern Theories. Or perhaps Jimmy Walker, Texas Ranger: An Episode Guide to the Dyn-O-Mite Cowboy Cop. But that's just me.

The ebook is free and ready for download in Mobipocket format for PDAs. I'm unaware of any desktop-readable format just yet.

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