Posted by Minnie-Haha on June 6, 2005, at 21:21:10
In reply to Re: Faulkner, Oprah... I can't believe I did this » Minnie-Haha, posted by KaraS on June 6, 2005, at 15:38:02
> ... I think it's good overall that she is reviving interest in the classics. In this case I think she should have tested the waters with one Faulkner book first...
It looks like they read Anna Karenina last summer! They've actually had a pretty impressive reading list: East of Eden; Cry the Beloved Country; One Hundred Years of Solitude; The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter...
> It's too bad that she no longer picks new, unknown authors because she got embarrassed that one time. She really helped a lot of struggling writers. I don't understand why she couldn't just make sure the author wants Oprah's book club kind of attention ahead of time rather than scrapping all new authors from her club?
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> But she has certainly been successful at what she does so maybe she knows better than I do in this case.She's got such a big audience that it is a shame she's not helping the new authors much any more, but more than Oprah, I blame the growth of the mega-publishing houses and super-huge, mega book chains. (I try to buy at my local bookseller as much as possible.)
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