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Ah thanks for the info. I have no idea what books Oprah recommends but I'm surprised this was one of them. I've read it, and I liked but not loved it, but it c
by wutbrodo 9y ago
Ah thanks for the info. I have no idea what books Oprah recommends but I'm surprised this was one of them. I've read it, and I liked but not loved it, but it certainly wasn't in line with what my vague understanding of Oprah's book club was.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoI'm not claiming that Oprah recommended any book. I'm saying that "Better Angels is too dense to be a bestseller" doesn't work as a counterargument to "a celebrity recommended it, so I thought Better Angels would have better sales".
- wutbrodo 9y agoI disagree. The reason I was surprised when I thought you were saying Oprah recommended it is that Oprah doesn't really recommend books like this. That's not unrelated to the fact that her audience would think "man, Oprah's book recs suck" if she kept recommending books too dense for her audience.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoOf the millions of people who bought Obama's biography, how many do you think read it? It's dense. But for a lot of people, the point of buying a book is to let other people know that you bought it.