View Full Version : Oprah & Cormac McCarthy
TheSlipperyOne
29 Mar 2007, 06:43 PM
She has chosen his great book, The Road, as her newest addition to her book club.
http://www2.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/road/obc_featbook_road_main.jhtml
He will even appear on her show. That is something I may actually check out, but I can't seem to find when he'll be appearing.
Crimen y Castigo
29 Mar 2007, 07:03 PM
Slipping down the aisle, an olfactory assault of bargain basement scents and too expensive by half hair care, the older one scanned the slack-jawed crush of crinoline, cotton and cotton-spandex blend, shreiking and clapping and clawing and fawning as if he, he of all, knew the answer, held the key, would lead them down to the well of truth--not through his thinking or his research or his volume upon volume of beauty carved from the gnarled and knotted fallen trunks of history and place--but the truth they wanted or thought they wanted because they were told they wanted it over and over by their leader, the loud and heavy-haired bellower orchestrating the cacophony of applause and delirium misplaced.
Their truth: how to keep those last ten pounds off for good.
They would be sorely disappointed.
PsychedelicCeltic
30 Mar 2007, 01:12 AM
She has chosen his great book, The Road, as her newest addition to her book club.
http://www2.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/road/obc_featbook_road_main.jhtml
He will even appear on her show. That is something I may actually check out, but I can't seem to find when he'll be appearing.
The last couple years she's picked a surprisingly large number of really good books. She did three Faulkner books. Can you imagine housefraus trying to understand Benjy?
quentinc
30 Mar 2007, 01:16 AM
The last couple years she's picked a surprisingly large number of really good books. She did three Faulkner books. Can you imagine housefraus trying to understand Benjy?
Yeah, I don't imagine how Sound and the Fury fits with the people (I assume) are in Oprah's book club.
Wasn't One Hundred Years of Solitude on there as well?
bojendyk
30 Mar 2007, 12:29 PM
Yeah, I don't imagine how Sound and the Fury fits with the people (I assume) are in Oprah's book club.
Wasn't One Hundred Years of Solitude on there as well?
And Anna Karenina.
I can't find fault with her book club anymore. If it takes a handful of treacly memoirs and chick lit novels to make people feel comfortable confronting authors as daunting as Faulkner or McCarthy, then I can't complain. I know plenty of very intelligent, well-educated people who find such authors intimidating.