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Bluffer's guide to big books

Bleah. Well bluffed.

And I was thinking that the bluffer gave himself away when he started talking about Russian patronymes and other Russia-related generalities. Duh. The literature professor should be ashamed of himself. (Then again, my experience with literature professors tells me that there's a vanishingly small chance that he's capable of feeling shame for such things...)
 
I was not impressed with either of them - and, no, I have not read War and Peace - though I did read a decent (apparently) synopsis of it.
 
I've read "War and Peace" and I guessed A. Some of his statements seemed shallow in a way I wouldn't expect from someone who had read the book.

Trent
 
bruto said:
Even though I've never read the book either, I guessed A immediately. He talks straight standard lit-course cliché right from the start. "Chiaroscuro" my foot.
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Apart from that that A never says anything more specific than "X is the central character" or "Y is fascinating", which gave him away, B is the only one who mentions anything in the book--e.g., Pierre walking around the battlefield--that is not likely to be found in a cheat-sheet.
 
I haven't read "War and Peace," but I was sure it was B UNTIL he B mentioned "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," and A said "A beautiful moment."

Ivan Ilyich wasn't a character in the book- it was a short story by Tolstoy. But A thought B was referencing a moment in War and Peace.
 
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