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in praise of failure2 comments

pensum wrote 7 months ago: Human beings have a tremendous capacity for failure and our failures take many forms. The range of l … more →

Tags: Art, Philosophy, Literature, Failure

Humiliation, anyone?

DebbieN wrote 9 months ago: In his 1975 novel, Changing Places, David Lodge sent up university literature departments everywhere … more →

Tags: 000-099 Booklore, Computers, Journalism, Authors, David Lodge, World Book Day UK

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

diversitymedia wrote 9 months ago: more about “FORA.tv – How to Talk About Books You…“, posted with vodpod   … more →

Tags: Letters, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, Umberto Eco

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

curledupwithabook wrote 12 months ago: I heard about this book called How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, by Pierre Bayard, so … more →

Tags: Books and Reviews, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

Cast Off

twins4reading wrote 1 year ago: Gentleman One: I have found that life is not unlike a meatball. Gentleman Two: A meatball? How so? G … more →

Tags: Middlemarch, muppets, Bunsen Honeydew, Muppetmarch, Bernadette Peters, Meatball, Cookie, Footnotes, SANA KRASIKOV

On reading a book, using a book and interpreting a book

vaishakbelle wrote 1 year ago: A recent podcast (recent in terms of when I had downloaded it as opposed to when it was created) I w … more →

Tags: Reflection, Thought, book, Podcast, Umberto Eco, shame

The incommunicable and Procustes

scriptionis wrote 1 year ago: It appears as if I’ve given up on writing: I haven’t. It’s been quite hectic here, especially in the … more →

Tags: Diary, Professional, Literature, Procustes, “How to talk about book you haven’t read”, the saviour librarian

a milepost, mowed down1 comment

bradtyer wrote 1 year ago: Kind of a semi-momentous occasion. Last night I finished reading Pierre Bayard’s How To Talk A … more →

Tags: HOW TO?, Reviews, nonfiction, Not reading

To Read Or To Non-Read: On Pierre Bayard3 comments

Mikhail Emelianov wrote 1 year ago: Again, returning to the subject of Pierre Bayard’s book – How To Talk About Books You Ha … more →

Tags: Craptasitc Academic Drek, Philosophy, Reading, non-reading

Talking about books you haven't read2 comments

flymellon wrote 1 year ago: One of my Type-A personality characteristics is an inclination to make lists.  Like books to read, b … more →

Tags: Herman Hesse, The Glass Bead Game, Lists, Books, Constellations, Games

BORING AND UNREAD BOOKS

boldray wrote 1 year ago: How To Talk About Books You Haven’t Read by Pierre Bayard (translated from the French by Jeffrey Meh … more →

Tags: humour, Philosophy, Books, Louis Therouz, Jeffrey Mehlman, the idler, Woody Allen, The Third Man, Umberto Eco

Reading Humour (No Smiling Allowed)

Peter Kerry Powers wrote 1 year ago: The Librarian And Information Science News blog called my attention back to The Onion, which I used … more →

Tags: Reading, Reading--Gender, Books, Literature, Reading--Solitude, Reading--humour, humour, The Onion, Social commentary

Reading as Mapping: Or, Who are the Well-Read? And Does Anyone Really Care? 3 comments

Peter Kerry Powers wrote 1 year ago: My son is a seventh grader who plays up a grade on an eighth grade basketball team. They make the Ba … more →

Tags: Reading, Books, Literature, Literary criticism, Education, Cultural Literacy, E.D. Hirsch, Allan Bloom

More, and yet more

Peter Kerry Powers wrote 1 year ago: I think there’s something about the great sea of information that leaves one feeling perpetual … more →

Tags: Beauty, Books, books as art, Reading, Jim Rosenau

I talk about books I haven't read

Drew wrote 2 years ago: Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. Paul … more →

Tags: Literature, Experiences, Books, Reading, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

Skimmed book. ++5 comments

Jonathan Miller wrote 2 years ago: Pierre Bayard is a professor of French literature at Paris VII, a psychotherapist, and the génial au … more →

Tags: Books, Reading, Lacan, Oscar Wilde, Graham Greene

Without a Net 3 or 3s a Crowd5 comments

flann4 wrote 2 years ago: In all this about crowds and masses, I’ve not yet touched on what I find most intriguing about … more →

Tags: Books, Culture, Science, canetti, crowds, macrobehavior, micromotives, Power, shelling

How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read1 comment

jonmsweeney wrote 2 years ago: I’m in San Diego at the American Academy of Religion meetings, and reading Pierre Bayard … more →

Tags: Books, Reading

A review of "How to talk about books you haven't read"6 comments

Vincent Crummles wrote 2 years ago: HB and SB+ … more →

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