Helpful Score: 4
From France - where else? - comes this indispensable primer on how to BS about unread (or unreadable) books in a smug, patronizingly omniscient tone. It's an essential skill you must master if you want to make it through job interviews, blind dates, pseudo-intellectual Bohemian gatherings, or college. I couldn't recommend Pierre Bayard's little monograph more highly. It's so good, in fact, I may even read it someday.
