[mountaineer]

"Sula" will be the fourth title of Ms. Morrison's to be featured on the program.

It's fair to assume literary brilliance isn't a prerequisite to making the cut on Oprah's show.

[Lizavetta]

"It has become harder and harder to find books on a monthly basis that I feel absolutely compelled to share," Ms. Winfrey said in a statement. "I will continue featuring books on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' when I feel they merit my heartfelt recommendation."

Hey Oprah, what about Faulkner? Twain? Chaucer? Voltaire? Hemingway? Wharton? DeMaupassant? Balzac? Thackeray? DeFoe? Dumas? Alcott? Swift? Tolstoy? Hawthorne? Dostoevsky? Poe? Cervantes? Melville? The Brontes? Fielding?

Nothing these great writers have done is good enough, or "compels you to share" them, but Toni Morrison's tripe is?

It's clear that the age of the piece doesn't matter to her - at least if it comes from a special friend of Oprah's - why doesn't she introduce CLASSIC LITERATURE from the past to her devoted sheeple instead of politically correct women-are-victim screeds by second-rate liberal suck-ups?

Or is this just her way of helping her buddy make a buck off a book that flopped the first time it came out?

[NYpeanut]

You don't have to assume, you can take it from me. Poor me, who recieved a copy of each one from my well-meaning mom until I had to take a deep breath and ask her to quit. I started every one, never finished any. All I can compare them to is Lifetime TV pap--so bad they make your teeth hurt. The one that pushed me over the edge was called "Cane River."