How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard

How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read

Pierre Bayard with Grover Gardner (Narrator), Jeffrey Mehlman (Translator)

4 hours, 28 minutes first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy informative reflective medium-paced
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In this delightfully tongue-in-cheek book, a #3 bestseller in France, literature professor Bayard contends that, in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book but the one who understands the bo...

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informative: 69%

reflective: 67%

funny: 45%

lighthearted: 32%

challenging: 26%

inspiring: 19%

relaxing: 4%

adventurous: 2%

hopeful: 2%

sad: 2%


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