Review: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
User Review - Rebecca - GoodreadsThis philosophical book touting the benefits of not reading books one wants to discuss in order to access the full meaning is thought-provoking and mind-bending. M. Bayard makes incredibly provocative ... Read full review
Review: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
User Review - Tucker - GoodreadsThe website Helium requires that book reviews be written in the third person voice. I recently wrote a piece for them explaining how the first-person experience of reading can be converted into a more ... Read full review
Review: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
User Review - Katherine - GoodreadsStarting the book, I wasn't very convinced of some of Bayard's arguments, but I think he pulled his whole thesis quite well by the book's end. Of course, this is a bit contradictory to one of many ... Read full review
Review: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
User Review - Cynthia Davidson - GoodreadsThis was a good way to shake up our book club, and challenge us to get a bit more analytical about what is going into our brains. And now when we come to a meeting, having not read the assigned book ... Read full review
Review: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
User Review - Liz - Goodreadsit sounds like it's gonna be some smarmy satire on the pretensions of the chattering classes but it's not like that at all. bayard argues that talking about books you haven't read requires an ... Read full review
Review: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
User Review - Tyler Nguyen - Goodreadsa critique of the completist model of reading that this very website tends to encourage, this book instructs the reader not to feel ashamed or inadequate having not read a book (this is our ... Read full review
Review: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
User Review - James - GoodreadsWhen I was in the sixth grade I did a oral presentation on a book report for a book I hadn't read. The author was Scott O'Dell and the story was about the fall of the Aztecs and Henry Cortez. I panned ... Read full review
Review: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
User Review - Raisu - GoodreadsThere's one thing that puzzles and irritates me about this book: the fact that Bayard never seems to have entertained the notion that someone might read for pure pleasure. Or to quote Fay Weldon, for ... Read full review
Review: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
User Review - Jeff - GoodreadsCreativity. Acting. Conning. This the basic gist I got from the book. I find the book morally troubling. Sure, one can rationalize why one should speak with authority on the context of the material.It ... Read full review
Review: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
User Review - Jenny - GoodreadsI was looking for a resource to help the students in my music research class learn how to understand what a book included without reading it, particularly when needing to work through a lot of ... Read full review
