Title: "Complete" Waste of Time
Product review: If I had looked further beyond the promising dust jacket I would have noticed that this flippant tome is nothing more than Name Dropping 101. Packed with lists of knowledge that the authors think everyone "should" know, this book insouciantly prepares those lacking in depth to hobnob with their equally shallow brethren at the next swank cocktail party. Anyone who considers themselves even mildly intelligent should resent being told which scene in Citizen Kane they should claim as their favorite or why they shouldn't overtly admire Andrew Wyeth. A book such as this only contributes to our cultural "dumbing-down" by assuring that NOBODY really cares enough to know what they are talking about. The blithe conversational snippets of knowledge that Wilson and Jones promote in their book undercut true intellectualism while making the claim that it is fine to be ignorant as long as OTHER PEOPLE think you are smart.
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