Top Signs Your Book Is a Classic

• You're dead.
  
• Your book is over forty years old and still in print.
• It's been made into a theater-release (movie or stage) adaptation at least twice.  All versions have famous actors.
• It's been turned into a miniseries by the BBC (this version does not have to have famous actors, although they eventually become famous for wearing cravats and having sexy necks and brooding meins).
• The only people who've read it are high school students and/or English majors.
• Despite the fact that the novel is really a romance/science fiction/fantasy/adventure/mystery novel, you can find it in the literature section of the bookstore.
• It's been mangled into an adaptation featuring zombies or vampires.

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