[RexBeach]

Redundancy alert: “Timeless classics.”

Oprah is such a tool.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I understand she tried to book Charles Dickens on the show, but was disappointed to hear that he had died 140 years ago.

[Borges]

To whoever put chat in the keywords...it’s a cultural issues. she has a huge effect on books sales. What people read matters.

[ZULU]

I’m so thrilled.

Yawn.

Thanks in part to this witch who made a million in the Capitalist System, we have a Marxist Muslim in the White House.

Can’t stand her.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

The better Dickens selection for our day and age would have been “Hard Times”.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Winfrey said on Monday's episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" she has never read Dickens before

And yet millions of hausfraus look to this woman for guidance. God help us.

[carton253]

I’m going to agree with Oprah regarding Tale of Two Cities. Absolutely my favorite novel with Sydney Carton my favorite character.

[Bullish]

I read both of these when I was about 16.
I doubt most of Oprah’s audience would get very far through them though.

[knittnmom]

How did she get through high school without reading Dickens?

[P.O.E.]

Bleak House

[dawn53]

Even Captain Kirk liked Tale of Two Cities (Hallmark makes a b’day card with a quote from the movie from the scene where Spock gives Kirk the book.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Bozr9Gs_M

[kanawa]

Faux-liberals of today should look to the Cheerybles in Nicholas Nickleby
as examples of the spirit of classical liberalism;
much closer to the our conservatism
than the totalitarian statist tendencies of today’s ‘liberal’ left.

[nickcarraway]

I give credit where credit is due. I think this is fantastic.

[Billthedrill]

Good stuff, actually, although we could debate which Dickens books would be more appropriate until the cows come home. Bleak House is a personal favorite, but there's a certain magic in "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." Always leave 'em laughing, Chuck...

OK, kidding, but only a little. It's a TV audience, after all. Maybe she's got the level about right. Lord knows she's sold enough stuff.

[LibFreeOrDie]

For ATOTC fans, the best film version is the 1958 one starring Dirk Bogarde.