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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:41:04 +0000

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The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger

Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:50:31 +0000

Sounding smart (without being smart) If you were to time travel back and visit yourself, would you take that as an opportunity for sexual exploration? Note: This is designed to titillate exceptionally boring dinner conversation. Use with discretion. The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger is a post from: Written Word, the online book review site

The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger is a post from: Written Word, the online book review site

Burns: Poems, by Robert Burns

Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:56 +0000

Sounding Smart (without being smart) Whyles the verse o' Burnsie Gang aft o'er my head I doubt na why earth born companion,

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Gulliver’s Travels, by Johnathan Swift

Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:48:27 +0000

Sounding Smart (without being smart) The most important factor regarding the travels of Gulliver is to be able to fluently recite the names of all the lands to which he voyages – not just Lilliput. Bobdingnag, Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Houyhnhnms, and Japan. You will receive extra-special secret points if, in the same conversation, you mention how [...]

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Finnegan’s Wake, by James Joyce

Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:00:40 +0000

Sounding Smart (without being smart) No one has read this book. Joyce himself took seventeen years to “write” it, by some accounts simply taking the sounds made by his housecat and transcribing them to the page. (e.g. “prankquean,” which sounds, to my ear, very similar to the feline verbalization of “clean my litterbox.”) Finnegan’s Wake, [...]

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