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Thumper
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 - 10:23 pm: | 
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Hello All,
I will be the first to admit that I must still be suffering the after affects of my cold or something because not only am I looking forward to the new Harry Potter book, but I am going to follow Oprah new book club. That's right! Pick your chin up off that keyboard before you get spit all in between the keys! *big smile* Oprah is going to feature DWM books which is a far cry from those white-woman-save-the-world books she was featuring. Her first book is East of Eden by John Steinbeck, another one of my all time favorites. There it is. But, you all know me, I got to go home. Even though I'm in the Winter Wonderland reading thang, I am going to run back to my AA books. |
Crystal
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 12:43 pm: |
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Hey Thumper. I LOVE East of Eden! That was one EVIL woman! I think I have it somewhere in a box. Maybe I'll try and dig it out. My son can't wait for Mr. Potter the 5th either. He just started the series about a month ago and raced through them. I'm supposed to read them too but I've got about 4 other books waiting for me so he'll have to wait.
What is "DWM" books? I think I only read 1 of the books from her first club. |
Cynique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 03:10 pm: |
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You know what? I just figured out what you mean by going into your "winter wonderland", Thumper. Clever. |
Thumper
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 05:53 pm: |
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Hello All,
Crystal: As far as Mr. Potter goes, I'm a new addict. I'm going to have to put down the book I'm reading just to finish Book 3 and 4 by Saturday. DWM is Dead White Men.
Cynique: Thanks. I go on it every June. |
Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 10:55 am: |
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Thump:
I don't believe Oprah has ever read that book--sure she's probably had it in her hand, skimmed it read a few in front and at the end and SEEN THE MOVIE which a lot of people mistake for reading the book. But I bet she never read it cover to cover.
I'd like to see somebody give her a pop quiz on it. My favorite Steinbeck is GRAPES OF WRATH |
Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 10:26 am: |
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All:
The Oprah Ripple effect from her Book Club Bellyflop is apparently spreading: apparently the libraries and bookstores are inundated with requests for East of Eden--and apparently people are wondering why she chose that book of all (apparently viewers said that she was jumping up and down on the show, all excited in that enduring Oprah way she has) and the calls started before the show was over.
The more sceptical commentators are suggesting that the book was chosen by a committee--even those in her corner are wondering why East of Eden among the thousands of books she could have picked (I ain't even goin' to the thread, worn thin by now, about why she didn't choose some black book--even by maybe her pals Toni or Maya) or classics (Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neal Hurston--Ralph Ellison--Thucydides, Shakespeare, Homer. . .)
I suppose we must wait for subsequent picks and see what pattern emerges. |
Cynique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 01:24 pm: |
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I read "East Of Eden" a long time ago and I must say that, while it was an OK book, I'm among those who don't share Oprah's great enthusiasm for it, and this woman is really starting to get a little scary. Now she's raising white male authors from the dead. Before long she'll have her adoring audiences thinking she can turn water into wine. |
danita
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 07:30 pm: |
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Oprah has a show called after the show and she said she was a little skeptical about picking the book because "literary critics" would say that the book is not a classic , she went back and forth and she said she realized " she was Oprah Winfrey and she could pick whichever book she wanted to pick" and that is the way she left it as for whether she read the book or not she said she read it last summer for the first time. |
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