When was the last time your book club read a classic? Have you shied away from them for all the obvious reasons? Personally, I’ve got a list of classics I’ve been meaning to read but would be hard pressed to suggest one for book club. Maybe you're the same? You read the Cliff Notes in high school or skimmed Proust in college or maybe you’ve just been meaning to get around to WAR AND PEACE one of these days and would love to have your book club join you in this endeavor.
I’ve got a list longer than my arm of books I plan to read… yet somehow I can’t quite get to the classics. Alas, as it turns out, I have plenty of time in the car. So I finally decided to tackle a classic audio style – and I’m glad I did! At the moment I’m about 1/3rd of the way through Ayn Rand’s ATLAS SHRUGGED and I’m totally into it. Kind of don’t want to get out of the car when I get to my destination. I'm thinking if you plan you're classics meeting far enough in advance, you should have time to do the audio...
And if the idea of listening doesn’t seem as pure to you as reading, well, I totally understand that… but if you weren’t going to get around to it for another 10 years anyway, audio is a great alternative and there are tons of great ones out there. (For example - there's a version of LOLITA read by Jeremy Irons and a version of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD read by Sissy Spacek!)
-- Dana Barrett, Contributing Editor
