Book Reviews & The Written Word
Without the Written Word, books wouldn't even exist.
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Sounding Smart (without being smart)
Some nozzle may try to correct you, politely suggesting you may have meant Tropic of Cancer or Tropic of Capricorn. If so, roll your eyes, sigh loudly and state flatly: “I didn’t say Arthur Miller.
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Godel, Escher, and Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Sounding Smart (without being smart)
You shouldn’t even pretend to have read this book.
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Again, there is some (admittedly minuscule) chance that whomever you’re trying to impress may have been forced to read at least the Cliff’s Notes of this biography as part of some useless English Lit class…”
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Even if someone has read this, it was back in high school, and all they remember is Ahab being mad at a white whale that bit off his leg and that the first mate was named after a chain of gourmet coffee shops. If you need to provide yourself cover, loftily say something such as, “It oft seems that all great works of literature are ultimately based on the allegories of the Talmud.” That should send them scurrying off to the bar.
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