Amen:
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2009/02/09/blogging-jackal-time-mitch-albom-is-short-preachy-and-short/#more-8908
Mitch Albom is a worthless stain on the libraries of America. Not because of what he writes, but because of who reads him. Writing fluff and feel good crap is fine - it's just that idiots who can't read their way out of a Barnes and Noble shopping bag read Albom and think they're 'readers', or 'smart.' I'm glad to see the hack get raked over the coals. The fact he's so popular just shows how dumbed down we are as a nation. And you know the funniest thing about all of this? Albom's "novels" are actually listed in the LITERATURE section of bookstores. Literature? It's book-of the-month, made-for-TV crap, not Tolstoy. You know who reads Mitch Albom? Adult college-graduates that still mix up they're, there, and their or to, two and too. If you read it - great. I read some crap, too. Just don't pretend he's an 'author' or you're some literary guru for reading whatever Oprah tells you.
For Albom to color the Internet as a dubious party in recruiting is idiotic and shallow. Does anyone that's not hung-over and can't sleep even watch The Sports Reporters anymore? It's 2009. The Internet is here to stay. Your regard as an insightful writer, hopefully, is not. Surely future generations will see the transparency and predictability in your books and relegate you to that shelf of dull witted, but hyper-consumed, works marked Inspirational.
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