Post by Pulpmariachi on Oct 5, 2007 13:22:20 GMT -5
This is what happens when great authors get Oprah'd. Nothing against the big O., since she does open up a world of literature in people who probably wouldn't normally read said literature (like most housewives were going to pick up Tolstoy and say, "Hmm...this looks good!").
Sometimes she picks great works, I think, like the Summer of Faulkner or McCarthy or Garcia Marquez's first inclusion "One Hundred Years of Solitude." This time, she's at it again with "Love in the Time of Cholera", which is definitley an uplifter from "The Road."
Despite the sticker, with or without the sticker, you should read "Love in the Time of Cholera." Not as good as "One Hundred Years of Solitude," (which is the first book since "A Wrinkle in Time" that changed my life) but still amazing. There's a movie coming out in November, however, so I wonder if she's gotten more corporate than corporate?
Sometimes she picks great works, I think, like the Summer of Faulkner or McCarthy or Garcia Marquez's first inclusion "One Hundred Years of Solitude." This time, she's at it again with "Love in the Time of Cholera", which is definitley an uplifter from "The Road."
Despite the sticker, with or without the sticker, you should read "Love in the Time of Cholera." Not as good as "One Hundred Years of Solitude," (which is the first book since "A Wrinkle in Time" that changed my life) but still amazing. There's a movie coming out in November, however, so I wonder if she's gotten more corporate than corporate?
