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Originally Posted by Georgiegirl2012
To my mind anything that gets people reading is a good thing.
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It's hard to argue with that, but...
I've been wanting to finally read Anna Karenina, and the only title in the Kindle Store from the translation I want (Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky) reads "Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)". I downloaded the sample to see if it would read that way on my Kindle. It does, and I won't buy it.
While she is entitled to promote reading all she wants, she does not in any way deserve to be part of the title.
I must add that I once read that when William F. Buckley Jr, the American conservative author and commentator, was asked about Oprah he said, "Isn't she that woman who is alternately thin then fat?"
