More on faking it...

A bit more on the subject of faking it for appearance's sake: A professor of Literature at the University of Paris has written a guide on "How to talk About a Book You Haven't Read." I guess appearing cultured rather than being cultured is a universal (not just American) phenomenon. Here is a link to the New York Times article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/24/books/24read.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

Of course, perhaps it's self defeating to write a book about not reading books...