Oprah reintroducing book club: CLASSICS this time

[Julie Holmes]

Hmm. I'm not a huge Oprah fan, but I thought this was intriguing. Since so
many of the writers in Potterverse love the classics, I thought this could
be a good thing. I have read a few of Oprah's book club recs, and the only
one that I truly enjoyed was The Poisonwood Bible. I also read Midwives
(thought it was inaccurate in some parts) and Cutter's Gap, the latter which
didn't grab me particularly. Currently I'm reading Wicked, which is pretty
fun! Anyhow, keeping this mildly on-topic for HP, I just pulled some quotes
from Euripides' play Andromache, which features Hermione in it, for my fic
(Muggle Studies) and I'm looking forward to making more time for the
classics. Can you believe I've never read a single Jane Austen novel? I
don't know how that happened. I've read a lot (as it's my favorite hobby)
and I've read many classics...but no Jane Austen. I'm wondering if you all
like the classics a lot, or moderately, or if you enjoy them at all? Here's
the link to the Oprah announcement:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/878408.asp?cp1=1

I thought it was interesting in that most of the classics are in the public
domain now- so how to handle that in an Oprah-styled book club. All the
publishers and retailers are probably going to fight amongst themselves now.
It's never easy ;)


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