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What book have you ever faked reading to look smart? Okay, you can name up to three.

 

Sunny Bradley
None. If I don't like it, I throw it over my shoulder. I never fake it.

Jane
I can honestly say I've never faked reading a book to look smart. I take that back -- I might have faked reading a textbook in grade school to impress a teacher.

Sandi
I have never faked reading a book! What's the use of that?

I only read books (fiction or non-fiction) because I want to or have to because I'm reading it for school.

Linda M. Johnson
Honestly I can't say "faked", but I tried to listen to both WALDEN and ULYSSES and decided that neither of them were best to listen to (while driving). Next time I attempt them, I will have the book --- maybe in conjunction with the CD.

Carol Fox
None.

Kyla
MOBY DICK and A TALE OF TWO CITIES (started reading both for high school English but just couldn't bring myself to get beyond halfway in each).

Lita Jones
When I read WAR AND PEACE in high school, I skipped all the battles. That is close to faking on a book.

Deb Yorgensen
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH, when I was 11.

John
James Joyce's FINNEGAN'S WAKE --- I have worked through some of it several times, but it just cannot maintain my interest; it's just too hard of a book to enjoy.

Gord
Me? Of course not! Why, as I just explained to John Irving, while he was interrupting my conversation with Nora Roberts, people really shouldn't try and put on airs and pretend they know someone special when they don't! You'll have to excuse me now, Humphrey Bogart's ghost is due any minute and Michael Bublé just wandered off with Bogie's whiskey. 

Ain't I bad?

Barbara Adair
Ulysses

Steppenwolf

Gulag Archipelago

Julia L. Rule
Plato's REPUBLIC

April Lemesh
WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy

Dianne
Mein Kampf
The Art of War

Pamela Dildine
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE...yawn!

Debbie Johnson
The Bible

Lynn Stone
War and Peace

Malvina
WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy

Linda Bedell
ANDREW JACKSON by H. W. Brands

Juanita
None --- I read for enjoyment, not for show!

Kathy Vieira
I would have to say that I never came close to finishing THE ILIAD in high school. I gave it the "100 page rule" and couldn't pick it back up again.

Pam Cox
All the Jane Austen books.

Melinda Bandow
Remembrance of Things Past
The Brothers Karamazov
Ulysses

Cynthia Baxter
Marcel Proust's IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME --- says a lot, doesn't it?

Loretta Sanford
WAR AND PEACE and THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV

SarahBeth Carter
A Tale of Two Cities
Moby Dick

Sherri
Atlas Shrugged
War and Peace
The Lord of the Rings

Patricia Sweetland
Ayn Rand's book, and right now I can't even remember the name of it...and I majored in English! LOL

Elizabeth Vollbach
Chaucer's CANTERBURY TALES in middle English.

I DID read them in modern English, but my college professor insisted we needed to read the middle English. I faked it and did much better than I would have.

Tamara
In high school there were a few in history class and science and math... Boring!

nmc
I can't fake anything!!! I learned long ago that invariably I am hoisted on my own petard when I try anything like this, so I just nod and listen!

Jerry Johnson
I've never faked reading a book. You might run into someone who has read the book and will make you look like the fool you are for faking it.

Ann
7 Habits of Highly Effective people

Debi
DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA by Cervantes. Okay, I really did read this...both volumes...in Spanish...twice. And took two college courses...and I teach a few of my favorite chapters! Ay!

Karen Terry
THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN is a hard book to read, so I faked it.

Carolyn
Plato's REPUBLIC

Sandra Hughes
Anna Karenina

S Bird
Crime and Punishment

Imnot stupid
WAR AND PEACE... and all the others I've really tried to read!