Letters to the Editor
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The Oprahror has no clothes
I guess if there are adult readers who rely upon the host of a TV show to tell them what to read maybe it IS neccesary for that host to then make a public, hour-long(?), televised spectacle of pointing that a book she recommended wasn't what she thought it was,
but it wasn't her fault.
Flocks of people are told by others, thought to be infallable and wise, to read and believe story upon story, the validity of which cannot be confirmed. People read them and believe them to a variety of degrees. Whether or not those stories a "real," some people can get something useful out of them.
How about a new Oprah's Book Club sticker that specifies: "Fictionalized Memoir" and sticking on some other shelf, and let people get what they can from it?
Dock Frey's royalties.
And move on.
BK