If you like Oprah, that means you like whatever she tells you to like, and that means you like Mitch Albom...so have I got good news for you: Oprah is going to turn Albom's most recent bilious discharge of sanctimonious claptrap--or "book", as some choose to refer to it--For One More Day, into a TV movie!
(TV! That's where Oprah lives and everything with which you are familiar comes from and, ideally, returns to! Hooray!)
For One More Day, which tells the story of a suicidal baseball player who magically gets to spend a day with his dead mother, is a fine example of how far Albom has progressed as a writer since his first book, Tuesdays with Morrie, which tells the story of a sportswriter spending magical days with his dying mentor, or even his second book, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, which tells the story of a dead man who spends a magical journey magically meeting people he has magically touched in his magical life.
Both Heaven and Morrie were previously adapted into TV movies for ABC (on which the filmed version of Day will also air), with Oprah holding the reins on Morrie...and as long as soccer moms and the infirm continue to worship at the altar of Oprah because she's friends with celebrities, she's ostensibly sassy, and/or other people do it (and we all want to be like other people, don't we?) and keep phonies like Albom on the bestseller list (along with pretending to be interested in Steinbeck, Faulkner, et al, after actively ignoring them your whole life)...there is no end in sight.
If I'm crying, it's only because I'm so happy about this.
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Pathetic. Perhaps I'll pen something about mentoring my dog by whispering in her ear as she aged and then magically meeting up with her again after we both die so that I can magically make it to the best seller list.
Then I will write about how the first bird I had and my dog became magical friends through my mentoring in heaven unless I'm in hell and then I'll write a book about how I mentored them telepathically.
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