Ah, The Irony...

I just came across a great New York Magazine review of the book 'How To Talk About Books You Haven't Read', by Pierre Bayard. Aside from it being a great title, it is also a very funny review (and has the added irony of having been written by a reviewer who didn't actually read the book). My favorite part:

Today I’m proficient in such feints as the stretched truth (“It’s funny, I’ve never actually finished that,” I’ll volunteer about War and Peace, of which I’ve read only the first paragraph), the misdirection (“Have you read Gravity’s Rainbow?” “You know what’s always bothered me about Pynchon?”), and, on very rare occasions, the enthusiastic flat-out lie (“Did you finish Brideshead Revisited?” “Yes! Yes, I really did!”).