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Title: you gotta be kidding
Review: What is the justification for this book?Look, I appreciate the fact that Phyllis Rose may come from a context where people who have negotiated the whole of Proust are scarce as hens' teeth, but that doesn't mean the rest of us do. Among my friends, at least, this achievement isn't so rare: none of us would have been so self-absorbed as to consider the feat book-worthy!Was Rose so taken with herself that this alone was reason for writing an entire book? Sheesh. At least Jacobs' chronicle of his supposedly reading the entire Britannica:The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the Worldwas memorably recorded, while Shea's muddling through the OEDReading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pagesat least contained lots of amusement. Rose can offer no insights even remotely comparable to theirs.No wonder there are so many of them available for a penny!
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