This Book Can Be Found On Canal Street

Well looky what we have here... a new book to review and discuss: How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read, by Pierre Bayard (translated by Jeffrey Mehlman). A book with a catchy title, in fact. Good one, Monsieur Bayard. Came up with that on your own, didja?

(Ahem)

Which brings us to a segment we like to call REALLY!?! With Kay Ho and shannza.

Really Pierre Bayard?! Really. You went ahead and wrote a book about 'how to talk about books you haven't read' and thought we wouldn't notice? Really? That's like dressing up like the Pope and running into a bank with a ski mask over your face demanding the tellers hand over their first borns, and thinking that you won't get caught. We obviously noticed. I mean really.

Really.

And really, Frenchie? Really?! You come up with this 'novel' idea (pun intended), but couldn't even muster the energy to translate your thinking into English on your own? Way to appeal to the masses. Way to try to reach all of your audiences. I mean really, you needed to hire someone to translate it? Really?! That's like running one lap around a high school track and then pretending that you pulled a muscle (I'm guessing you would go with groin) and then taking a three hour liquid lunch, and saying you just had the BEST workout. I mean really.

And furthermore, the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles wrote that you, Pierre Bayard, "With rare humor, [blah blah blah blah blah]." Really, Pierre? Did they really just call you rare? They also wrote about your book that people "may not be able to forget it." That's funny, because I'm pretty sure I'm gonna go ahead and forget it. I mean really. (I swear.)

Really.

Huh.

And really?!? You claim people don't need to read books ... but then you want them to read your book? Really!?! Was your mother on crystal meth when you were being born? I mean really! That's like telling a hungry twenty-nine year old in the produce section of the grocery store not to stealthily steal some grapes or, say, imitation crab meat from the salad bar when the kid working that aisle turns away. It just doesn't make sense.

Which actually brings us to an even newer segment of our blog that we like to call OH MY GOD, ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!

Seriously, are you serious, man? The new hardcover version of your book is listed on Amazon for $56.54... Oh my god, are you serious!?! Does this global economic recession mean nothing to you?! That's like selling a knock-off Prada for original price, like promising Jesus and delivering a hungover hippie. Thankfully, stiff competition will likely drive down that price. But seriously, are you serious? I mean really.

Really?!?

Huh.

Tsk, tsk, Pierre.

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*A special thank you to Seth and Amy of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update for thinking of "Really?!?!" first. We will admit that it was originally their idea.