Oprah’s Book Club: Enlighten This
We don’t have a lot to say about Oprah’s latest choice for her book club. It’s not that we have anything against “waking up to a new, enlightened mind-set” or even “seeking a more loving self and a more loving planet” but, let’s face it, Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now and, more recently, A New Earth, can’t really fill the literary footsteps he’ll be treading as part of this club.
C’mon: Gabriel García Márquez, Cormac MacCarthy, Ken Follett, Toni Morrison, Wally Lamb, Maya Angelou… and Eckhart Tolle? See what I’m saying? I’m not even sure we’re talking about the same planet, never mind the same league.
Still, a lot of people will care about Oprah and Eckhart’s New Earth Web Event. I’m just not so sure why they’d bother stacking it with the really great literature -- and even the kinda questionable literature that was still nonetheless literature -- Oprah has included in her book club in the past. Please, Oprah: next time? Give us a real book.
C’mon: Gabriel García Márquez, Cormac MacCarthy, Ken Follett, Toni Morrison, Wally Lamb, Maya Angelou… and Eckhart Tolle? See what I’m saying? I’m not even sure we’re talking about the same planet, never mind the same league.
Still, a lot of people will care about Oprah and Eckhart’s New Earth Web Event. I’m just not so sure why they’d bother stacking it with the really great literature -- and even the kinda questionable literature that was still nonetheless literature -- Oprah has included in her book club in the past. Please, Oprah: next time? Give us a real book.
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posted by Linda L. Richards at 2:51 PM
2 Comments:
You are so wrong. You're level of unconciousness runs deep. You need the class.
Surely you are right, given what we know so far, but perhaps we should both of us read the book just to make sure :-)
The deep appetite for books on how to live life is a sad reflection on how threadbare the social fabric has become for many nowadays, now that commerce has taken over nearly all of modern life for many.
If only they could and would read the real literature you list they might find some of the lasting spiritual sustenance they seek, instead of meaningless pap.
Long live all those with real values and the willingness to stand up for them.
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