Today’s New York Times features a book called How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read, by a French literature professor. I have got to get a copy when the translation publishes in the States. Finally, I can pretend I’ve read Proust
A lot of famous and infamous books have been published over the centuries, and we all have our embarrassing gaps. Share your own here, and I’ll share my thoughts on them. Be honest. We do not judge. And I or someone else might even tell you the book you’ve been “meaning to read” since you were sixteen ain’t worth ten hours of your life.
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February 26th, 2007 at 10:15 am
I’ve never read anything by Jane Austen, although I love movies based on her books.
I almost took Pride and Prejudice out of the library but after scanning the first page, I put it back. Too dense. I mean the book was too dense. And maybe me, too.
March 13th, 2007 at 9:35 pm
No way– I’ve never read anything by Jane Austen either! Although it is on my I’ll-read-it-eventually list.
March 13th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Wow, I just took my copy of Pride and Prejudice off the shelf and found, folded up inside, a memo from my high school. I was sure I’d read it more recently (and no, high school was nowhere near recent). Either I read a different copy, or that’s an indication of the impression it made on me.
You guys are missing out. Angela, you say you like the movies? Well, you remember all that witty, romantic dialogue that crackles with intelligence? The screenwriters didn’t write it.