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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I never believe anyone who says that they finished James Joyces's Ulysses. (sp) Everyone of my College Profs told me that they either barely finished it or never made it past the first quarter.
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A pretty high percentage of the first editions of Ulysses have many or most their pages uncut, meaning no one has ever even opened those pages, let alone read the words on them. Hemingway claimed to be a big fan, but his copy is in a library in Boston with its pages uncut after the first few chapters.
In the novella Bonsai by Alejandro Zambra, both members of the couple at the center of the book lie to each other about having read and loved Proust's In Search of Lost Time. They then decide to "re-read" the novel together and have to struggle to hide their bafflement from each other. It's an effective little section.
Oh, and lying about books you were supposed to read for school is in a different category of lying. It's like lying about having done your math homework, rather than claiming that you just love Dostoevsky, especially in the original French!
