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Re:On pretending to have read books by quesera on Sunday August 07, 2022 @02:25PM (#32378510)
I'd also love to see a list of the most common books people claim to have read, but have not.

There's some obvious stuff:

  - Proust
  - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky
  - Joyce (although to be fair, how can you tell?)
  - Probably David Foster Wallace
  - Knuth :)
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Re:On pretending to have read books by tpoacher on Sunday August 07, 2022 @07:33PM (#32380960)
Bible is probably on that list for a lot of people who claim they've read it but haven't (religious or otherwise!)
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Re:On pretending to have read books by jkmcf on Monday August 08, 2022 @11:20AM (#32386531)
I’ve always heard Umberto Eco was at the top during his heyday.
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