How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
 

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

by Pierre Bayard



The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as “a survivor’s guide to life in the chattering classes.”



If civilized people are expected to have read all important works of literature, and thousands more books are published every year, what are we supposed to do in those awkward social situations in which we’re forced to talk... (read more)

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This is one of four newish books I recently read mostly so I could finally get them off my queue list, all of which were actually pretty good but are mere wisps of manuscripts, none of them over 150 pages or so in length. This one is the surprisingly thoughtful How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, by a hip French literature professor named Pierre Bayard; because make no mistake, this is not exactly a practical how-to guide to faking your way through cocktail parties, but more a...

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