This book is an instructive guide on how to be much more well read and cultured than you are. While it is satirical, it really does lay out methods. From etiquette to interviews to religion and more, it is exhaustive in breadth, but thankfully focuses just a few paragraphs. For example, how to be on a date at an art museum and not look like a total idiot.

A quick and mildly funny read. Surprisingly good illustrations make the tired, instructive prose more energetic. This is not literature, and it's not as funny as you'll find from the best university student satire and lampoon. However, it's passable and enjoyable if you read it in one sitting. As the author states so well, "You made it all the way to the end! Did you read every page carefully? You did? Jesus, were you not paying attention at all? All you really needed to do was skim through..." In the rank of books this is not going to be memorable but perhaps it will help the odd hundred people swim with the sharks. (

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shawnd | Feb 8, 2008 |

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0525949917, Hardcover)

The ultimate guide to faking it through the real world! Now the people who bring you the Web's most popular humor site teach you how to live the good life (or at least look like you do).

With an astonishing 10 million unique visitors a month, CollegeHumor.com ranks within the top six hundred Web sites worldwide. Now, in a follow-up to their recently launched The CollegeHumor Guide to College, these cheeky alumni offer real-world novices a guide to getting ahead-without getting out of bed before noon.

In Faking It readers will learn how to bluff their way through on-the-job conversations, woo cute art students with the compelling use of the term "postmodern," and feign a deep appreciation of Neruda. The CollegeHumor team of experts provides everything required to pull off an outstanding social life, including appearing to have cultural knowledge beyond references gleaned from The Simpsons. The sexual, financial, and social arenas have never been more competitive, so it can't hurt to act like you understand classical music, even if you prefer light beer to light opera.

Published just in time for graduation, Faking It is the poseur's bible, but with less religious overtones than the real bible-and more pointers on conspicuously carrying an NPR tote bag.

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