Thread: The Ugly Truth - Oprah and Book Clubs
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Old 03-02-2013, 02:32 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
I call Oprah's followers lemmings because whatever Oprah recommends, they have to read. And now her Oprah 2.0 versions are just nasty. They mark up the book in such a way that the markings get in the way of just reading the book. I think this is just a way to get the lemmings to buy the book again if they already have it just to be able to read Oprah's comments.

I do belong to the SFBC but I have not bought anything from them in ages. I find the prices too high.
Some of us got into trouble for using the term "lemmings" in a very similar manner.

In fact the parallels above are striking. Almost "magically" so.
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