Poseur

"Well, it's an amazing novel, almost a memoir, really, with incredible detail so that some parts have a lot of impact while others are sort of banal." His thick eyebrows jump about on his forehead when he gets really excited about things, and his skin has this pallor and thin sheen of sweat like a habitual drug user - that look of someone who doesn't see the light of day too much.

Then he smiles conspiratorially, says, "Everybody's talking about it, but actually, I haven't read it yet. I just read a bunch of reviews, you know, just to see what it was about."