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Pompous Books to Read in Public
Want to increase your literary hipster cred at the local coffeehouse?
Here is a list to get you started.
Conversely, do you suspect a close friend is an insufferable book snob?
Catch them reading the following in public and your suspicions are confirmed!
If you've read most of the books on this list, you may be a book snob... but don't panic! Wear the title with pride, you deserve it.
Here is a list to get you started.
Conversely, do you suspect a close friend is an insufferable book snob?
Catch them reading the following in public and your suspicions are confirmed!
If you've read most of the books on this list, you may be a book snob... but don't panic! Wear the title with pride, you deserve it.
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Miss MacIntosh, My Darling
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The Ego and the Id
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Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (Anomaly)
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Undoing Gender
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The House of Intellect
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Demons
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Who’s Afraid of Gender?
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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. One: The Gathering
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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The Stranger
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The Tale of Genji
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia
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Divine Days
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Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Centennial Books)
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The Island of the Day Before
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Kristin Lavransdatter
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Crime and Punishment
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Travels In Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
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Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles and the Frailty of Knowledge
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
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White Nights
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
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Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
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Being and Nothingness
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The Iliad/The Odyssey/The Aeneid
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On the Genealogy of Morals
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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Play It As It Lays
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Great Expectations
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Blue Nights
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The Scarlet Letter
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
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First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
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No Longer Human
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Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
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Poems and Ballads & Atalanta in Calydon
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Philosophical Dictionary
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Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
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Meditations
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Two New Sciences/A History of Free Fall
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Hunger
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The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
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The Masks of God, Volume 3: Occidental Mythology
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The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy
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No Exit
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Nights at the Circus
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The Words: The Autobiography of Jean-Paul Sartre
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The Third Policeman
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The Age of Reason (Roads to Freedom, #1)
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Realm of the Dead
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Tennyson: Poems
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The Iliad / The Odyssey
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The Georgics
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History of the Wars, Volume I: Books 1-2
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Untimely Meditations
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Twilight of the Idols
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A History of My Times
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Physics
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A Universal History of Iniquity
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The Birth of Tragedy
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A New System of Chemical Philosophy Volume 2
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The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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Meditations on First Philosophy, with Selections from the Objections and Replies
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
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Elements of the Philosophy of Right
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Nov 08, 2013 05:40PM
Here's a top tip: get hold of a hardback edition of one of these pompous books, cut out the middle couple of hundred or more pages of it, and then you can just put your usual, normal, real people's, non-hipster, pompless, friendly-neighborhood, genuinely readable, unpretentious, happybrow, fun, top-entertainment books inside it, so that people think you're ultra-hip and highbrow and can actually make sense of that wacko shit.
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Read Ulysses today at the Social Security office (it's just what I happened to be reading!), so where do I pick up my pompous card?
Only two women in this list! A little bit unbalanced...
I count 5 female authors in the top hundred, but that's still a very masculine list.
I'm personally thankful that so few female authors have to resort to being overbearingly pompous in order to write quality literature. If they don't make the list, I think that's a success, not a failure...because face it, this list is obnoxious! Pew! PS: Although.. after some reflection I realize Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia belongs on the list. Very much so.
Perhaps a list for Genuinely Thought-Provoking Books or Deeply Intelligent Reading would have better diversity. I know several female authors that could wipe the floor with the competition in that case.
Um. Why is the "The Road" on this list? Its an easy-to-read page turner that was turned into a blockbuster movie, and by far Cormac McCarthy's most accessible mass audience genre novel...
ah yes, glenn beck, the most pompous of them all. riiiight...
must we be ironic and postmodern about good literature? perhaps you just want to read a good book when you read Ulysses.
Grant wrote: "must we be ironic and postmodern about good literature? perhaps you just want to read a good book when you read Ulysses."Well, we are still in the "postmodern" era, so... yes.
Mark wrote: "Here's a top tip: get hold of a hardback edition of one of these pompous books, cut out the middle couple of hundred or more pages of it, and then you can just put your usual, normal, real people's..."this has to be satire
But 'Ulysses' is flat out brilliant. It's one of a handful of books that make me laugh out loud, and yes several times in coffee shops. "Atlas Shrugged" is brilliant entertainment, but basically a pretentious soap opera! Proust is a magnificent writer!
Mark wrote: "Here's a top tip: get hold of a hardback edition of one of these pompous books, cut out the middle couple of hundred or more pages of it, and then you can just put your usual, normal, real people's..."Mark, well, in the 1st grade I had Agatha Christie books hidden within those silly readers like "See Jane Run." I had no other choice but to hide what I really wanted to read.
I'm glad to see Jacques Barzun on a list of pompous people. My only qualm is that he doesn't deserve to be on a list with writers of real ability and insight.
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