Talk like you've read it
Read It? No, but You Can Skim a Few Pages and Fake It
By ALAN RIDING
New York Times February 24, 2007
PARIS, Feb. 23 — It may well be that too many books are published, but by good fortune, not all must be read. In practice, primed by publishers, critics, teachers, authors and word-of-mouth, a form of natural selection limits essential reading to those classics and best sellers that become part of civilized intellectual and social discourse.
You don't have to read a book to talk wisely about it
By ADAM SAGE February 5, 2007 TimesOnline
'Ulysses' Without Guilt
By STACY SCHIFF February 13, 2007 NYTimes