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Strategizing about how to discuss a book you haven't read has to be the ultimate form of pretentiousness.

• mseebach 9y ago
  Very literally so.
• memco 9y ago
  Also a common discipline among students.
• coldtea 9y ago
  Or mere utility/functionality (save time not reading some books AND advance your scholarly/literary/etc career as someone who reads and knows them). A con isn't "pretentious". People who have actually read a book can be much more pretentious about it -- in the sense of acting as if this gave them some unique insight over other mere mortals who haven't read it.
  • floofyfloofer 9y ago
    Any book worth reading should be worth reading because of that insight. Which might be a way to say that most words aren't writing, and especially these.
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