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Oh, I so totally will read a book that Oprah suggests.
Pfft. The sad thing is, I bet a passel of her mindless fans went to university as liberal arts majors and should have read half the books she suggests. That is, the ones that aren't fabrications parading as memoirs.
Clarification:
Many people are far too haughty about popularity.
Popularity and quality are indeed not reflexive, but neither are they mutually exclusive.
Films like "Transformers" are immensely popular, and that one was at least entertaining for what it was.
Similarly, the film "Blue Water, White Death" has finally made it onto DVD. This documentary is a masterpiece of high-seas Cinema Verite(accent), as well as a possible inspiration for a Mr. Peter Benchley. In my opinion, it's also the inspiration for "The Life Aquatic." Anyway, it is an amazing film. If it were not popular, how could it be brought to DVD twenty years later?
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