Hide this

Results from Google Books

Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
Loading...

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

by Pierre Bayard

MembersReviewsPopularityAverage ratingConversations
557348,511 (3.42)21

Talk topics

 
Topics messagesLast message 
Lectures des francophones : Cecilturtle - lectures de 2009 67Cecilturtle, Yesterday 10:02pmignore
Books on Books : A list of books about books 65trav, Yesterday 12:50pmignore
50 Book Challenge : Dogra's 35 Book Challenge for 2009 60dogra, November 22ignore
Défi 999 (999 Challenge en français) : Cecilturtle - mes catégories 41Cecilturtle, November 15ignore
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : amanda4242's 75 book challenge 104amanda4242, November 14ignore
San Diego Bibliophiles : What are you reading now? 181bardsfingertips, November 13ignore
Book talk : Another Silly Game Part 32 418moibibliomaniac, October 30ignore
En français : les prix littéraires vous aident-ils? 20Ibarrategui, October 17ignore
Combiners! : Audio Books? 82kathrynnd, August 20ignore
Canadian Bookworms : June 2009: What are you reading? 34icemeister, June 30ignore
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today?--January 2009 306richardderus, January 22ignore
50 Book Challenge : Grace's Books of 2008 13Grace2133, January 13ignore
50 Book Challenge : Susan's 100 books 129sussabmax, January 7ignore
List Five Books Parlour Game : Let's talk about it 18reconditereader, January 5ignore
75 Books Challenge for 2008 : BeSerene's Books of 2008 126beserene, January 5ignore
75 Books Challenge for 2008 : TadAD's 75 Book Challenge 373TheTortoise, December 2008ignore
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of 6 December 2008 191ZanKnits, December 2008ignore
What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 June 2008 227Talbin, June 2008ignore
List Five Books Parlour Game : Diverting Game: Kill a Tab 7OneMorePage, May 2008ignore
Dormant: The Green Dragon : Have you been bad recently (bought any books), Part 4 431clamairy, April 2008ignore
Dormant: Osia : Lectures du Vendredi 13 2Zuzka, April 2007ignore

Message snippets

Book #22 How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard - bought a couple of months ago...still unread

TheoClarke in Combiners! : Audio Books? (Aug 6, 2009, 7:31am)

... reading the blurb, and so forth) is a very interesting problem of self-reporting. I commend Bayard's musing on this in How to talk about books you haven't read. He also proposes an interesting classification system of books.

... Death (policier) 34. Profondeurs (policier) 35. Dans les bois éternels (policier) 36. A Genoux (policier) 37. Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus (critique littéraire) 38. El ultimo lector (critique littéraire) 39. L'Ombre du vent (littérature étrangère) 40. ...

... très réussi dans lequel Mankell a réussi à associer nature et homme dans une aventure sombre et périlleuse. 48. Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus de Pierre Bayard Regard tout neuf sur la lecture. Bayard part du principe qu'il est impossible de tout lire et que nos ...

... tas de lectures certes intéressantes mais j'ai parfois l'impression de ne jamais m'en sortir. Le livre de Pierre Bayard Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus m'a aidée à faire abstraction de toutes les lectures que je "dois" faire : une bibliothèque de livres non lus (et donc un ...

Cecilturtle, I have a copy of How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read, but I am yet to read it. I'm wondering if maybe I could somehow work it into conversation without ever reading a single word in it.

... from the Salerno School of medicine, her Saracen protector and Jewish guide - a colorful bunch. I'm also finding out Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus by Pierre Bayard. After all, it's impossible to read everything including the most important of classics, but it's still nice ...

I'm reading Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus by Pierre Bayard - it seems paradoxical that a professor of literature would want to write a book about books he hasn't read, but he presents a compelling argument about how it's impossible to read all books and for most, it's simply ...

27. How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read The title of the book is a little deceptive: it's not about how to fake your way through conversations, but is rather an exploration about how people relate to what they've read and how even if you haven't read a book you can still know it and have ...

... to the final bill. Anyhow - that's how I come to be sitting here looking at Let Me Go, Afloat, Shakespeare's Wife, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (though, at this rate, there won't be any), The Assassin's Cloak and The Letters of Noel Coward. Oh, I got the pressie too. Is ...

Baseball Monologues How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read Me Talk Pretty One Day Conversation: A History of A Declining Art The Great Conversation

I just finished How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard and not I'm starting Sandition by Jane Austen. It started it earlier but got barraged by school work. Now I'm back to my Jane Austen Binge with breaks for other stuff.

12. The Misadventures of Oliver Booth by David Desmond-I have never read a book quite so funny. 13. How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read-just started. It seems good.

TadAD, another interesting book for the TBR pile! I read Bayard's How to Talk ABout Books You Haven't Read, which made me quite cross (one of those books where, if I ever wrote in a book, I would have been irritably scrawling 'NO!!' against whole paragraphs); it sounds like the third section ...

Also, before I actually left for the Yeats seminar, I read #29: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard. (Do we see desperation in this sudden shift of reading topic? Ah. Yes, yes we do.) Funnily enough, I actually ended up reading this whole book, which seems its inherent ...

... writings -- the non-narrative style makes this hard going, so I've been picking my way through for quite a while) How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (hilarious -- for anyone who has gone through graduate school, particularly in English or related topics, this one will make you ...

I read How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, which I heard of from a friend (and LTer). It's not really what it sounds like, being part humor, part lit crit (not a how-to). Next up will be another library book - either Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict or The Sweet Far ...

... gift wrapping, tags, and handmade treasures from everyday materials by Danny Seo Strip Search by William Bernhardt How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard (got a 3-for on that!) Local Hero by Nora Roberts Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

... slumpish again, now. I finished this on Saturday, and haven't been able to really settle on anything since. I tried How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard, but it was a little bit more intellectual than I was wanting. Today, I picked up War and Peace again, ...

... gift choice was to do with a funny discussion of the book I had with him despite the fact I hadn't read it. I recommended How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read (the other book I bought him) to him, and he said "I haven't read it, is it good?" I replied "Neither have I", and we laughed ...

Zuzka in Osia : Lectures du Vendredi 13 (Apr 13, 2007, 7:50am)

... je double la mise... The immaculate deception de Iain Pears (en VF mais ça veut pas se mettre en bleu !!!) et Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus? de Pierre Bayard Pas certaine du côté "vendredi 13" de ces livres, cependant... Zuzka

Quick Links

Ebooks Audio Swap
1 pay1 pay0/157

Popular covers

 

Help/FAQs | About | Privacy/Terms | Blog | Contact | LibraryThing.com | APIs | WikiThing | Common Knowledge | 46,085,816 books!