Gather Oprah Penned By Kitty Kelley Textbook

real surprises here. Kitty Kelley is a pretty decent writer and a pretty thorough researcher, I doubt it was a real challenge to find a lot of people who were willing to criticize one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in the world, but I found it sad that the most bitter words seemed to come from Oprah's own relatives.
It was also sad to me that it's likely that Oprah isn't the downtoearth unselfish philanthropist we all like to think she is.
. it's one thing to know that somewhere below the conscious level but another thing to read all sorts of evidence and examples of it.
It's also notable to mention that you can state the exact same fact to support two contrasting theses and have it work equally well in both cases if you know what you're doing.
Ms. Kelley does she's had a lot of practice, I would rather NOT have read this bio and been able to think of Oprah as being like the best part of the image she presents.
Overall, I would use the word "depressing" to describe my experience with Kitty Kelley's book,

This is the first book I read on my new "Nook" the electronic book reader I received as an amazingly generous bday present.
I read most of Oprah on the train on my way to and from work, Once, as I was reading, two women clearly huge Oprah fans across from me were discussing this very work and an interview with Ms.
Kelley that they had heard on TV, One of the women said to her friend, "If I see ANYONE reading this piece of trash, I will personally slap them silly!!" Thank God for the Nook with its generic cove.
So basically, depending on this woman's aim and strength, I risked my life to read this book, Bottom line it was interesting, but not worth getting smacked silly on public transportation for, hehe. . joda, denne var god den, og forfatter Kelley har virkelig gjort sin research, Jeg forstår imidlertid hvorfor dette er en uautorisert bio, for her var mye dyneløfting som Oprah ikke liker.
Fra rags til riches fra en fattig jente fra fattige kår til en selvsentrert egomaniac med penger som målsetning og hvor målet helliger midlene.
Anbefales!
yes, yes, rolling my eyes , this is gossip and it's not my thing, i usually like autobiographies and 'proper' biographies, i bought the book on a secondhand facebook page and didn't really know anything about it, except that it was about oprah.


i won't say i'm the biggest fan, but back in the day i watched her programs religiously and bought the occasional o magazine.
i definitely followed her recommendations about books and i've discovered amazing authors and some of the books landed on mystar rating list.


as with all thing in life, there are two sides of a coin, i picked up this book and scanned through the reviews on goodreads, my oh my, it is controversial, although the writer clearly doesn't like oprah, i have to commend her on writing a very good book, it is researched well and i found it to be quite a page turner, i was planning to read it over a period of time, in between other books, and definitely not as night time reading in bed.
i found myself carrying the book everywhere i went and it was difficult to put down,

the writer definitely made me think a lot oops oprah, wink So, I've never read a Kitty Kelly tellall unauthorized biography before, For obvious reasons. But, I'm always amazed by those who start out with nothing and achieve so much, so I thought it would be interesting to read about the most powerful woman in television.
The beginning about Oprah's growing up, was pretty interesting, But, then it just got to be TOO MUCH OPRAH for me, I couldn't even finish it I skimmed to the end, I never want to know that much about anyone, ever again,

Usually I love biography and memoir, but where I feel this was lacking was in making a point.
Usually people who are telling their own story have a reason to tell it: a point they want to make or lesson they want to share.
This book, however, is mostly just a time line, an account of every little pitfall and promotion in the life of Ms.
Winfrey. And, in the end, there really didn't seem to be a purpose in any of it,

Anyway, I think I'll skip the other Kitty Kelly books, This is a book.

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This is my second reading of Oprah by Kitty Kelley because I rated it one star then and thought I would give it a second chance.
I have changed the rating to three because of the research involved in bringing this biography to life, But the reporting is gossipy and mean at best, The author was refused cooperation for this book and it seems like Kelley took her vengeance by writing a very onesided, negative view of Oprahs life.
Every life has secrets and divulging them does not make for a balanced biography, Bringing an icon down with what appears to be great pleasure does not do the author credit, If you enjoy gossipy, tellall books, this could be for you, I have no opinion, one way or the other, about Oprah but reading this book made me feel nosy, I agree with other readers who noted that Kelley clearly does not like Oprah, There is a judgmental tone throughout the book, I was a little surprised that this book was published in, as the author has almost no understanding of race or trauma.
She seems to believe that wealth absolves Black people from experiencing racism, which is simply not true, In fact, the author mentions Henry Louis Gates multiple times, and his arrest in front of his own home happened before this book was published, i.
e. Kelley would have had plenty of examples of the racism experienced by rich Black people by, Similarly, Kelley is bizarrely lacking in empathy about Oprah's experiences of childhood sexual abuse, At first, I wondered if this was just an attempt at journalistic objectivity, but the tone and writing are not objective in the least.
That said, I found the interviews and histories shared very eyeopening, I think if one is able to look past the editorializing, there is robust and interesting info here that gives a fairly thorough outsider's look at a presentday cultural icon.
Oprah is an American icon, Kitty Kelly has produced an impressive book presenting an enormous amount of information, concerning the queen of daytime TV, Oprah Winfrey, in all her greatness along with all her contradictions.

Kelleys book begins with a preface explaining that her biography is unauthorized and despite multiple attempts to contact Winfrey, no such request was fulfilled.
Kelley poured over interviews and video clips to give Oprah a distinct voice, She also interviewed those who had interactions with Oprah and those not under her restrictive gag orders, My impression reading this biography was that Kelley certainly presented Oprah in a fair, albeit a different one than perhaps Oprah wanted.

Kelley covers Oprahs life chronologically, but some chapters that dealt with certain topics would cover the subject up to the present time.
Oprahs childhood, college, early television working days in Baltimore, her book club, South African school for girls, are all discussed, as well as her relationship with Stedman Graham, her friendship with Gayle King, her weight struggles, the lavish parties, her celebrity friends, and her brilliant business moves, as well as her need for control and obsession with privacy and paranoia.

Oprah is a fascinating woman, This book absolutely changed how I viewed her, I now see her as a complex individual, instead of a remote television personality,

There is language, not heavily throughout I believe one “fword” and then a smattering of swearing throughout, The topics of sex sexual abuse, transgender, pornography, drug use and other controversial issues are presented because of Oprahs past and the shows she did about them.
There is adult content, but graphic, Id say this one is about a PG,
I listened to this as an audio book,

No favorite quotes,
I didn't expect this to be a love letter to Oprah,I knew there would be some negative stuff.
What I didn't expect was such a boring telling of her life that reads like a high school book report.
It's full of facts and numbers laced with diatribes from people who obviously have an axe to grind, Kitty Kelley must be proud of getting Oprah's own father to belittle her achievements by claiming her every move is a calculated public relations stunt.
I found this book to be full of innuendos and gossip with a side dish of boring numbers this cost this and she spent that.
I regret buying it K is for Killing with Kindness

This little saying I just now made up based off of the sentence V is for Vendetta, obviously could possibly describe Oprah.
It was not, however, accomplished by Kitty Kelley in this book, though it should've been because, umm, her initials are K.
K. I think for her, what would be more fitting is KKK, Bad joke Okay, sorry. In my mind it was clever, but maybe it's just distasteful, But you know what, Kelley was COMPLETELY distasteful in this whole "biography"!!! Lemme 'splain,

It seems like Kelley was out to get Oprah for no apparent reason, I think someone has a chip on her shoulder, and it's not Oprahthat would be in her mouth, Kelley would probably say.


Yes, I did find this book to be entertaining just because of how stupid Kelley's arguments were to try to portray Oprah as an awful human being.
That is why I categorized it under "humorous" but I'm sure no one noticed that, anyway, Oh! But I didn't end up finishing this book because it was too stupid, Can things be stupid and funny at the same time Sure, just watch Dumb and Dumber, But I actually finished Dumb and Dumber, and in fact have watched it multiple times, Maybe Kelley should strive to be more like Lloyd Christmas, then she'd have more of a positive presence or presents.
. . because, you know, the whole Christmas thing, Anyways, to the point:

Examples used in the book to make Oprah look terrible, but that I found to be so stupid that they made me chuckle:

It was stated that Oprah had a gay brother.
Apparently, she said just like this to his face when he was dying of AIDS, "You're going to Hell!" because of his sinful acts.
Okay, okay. Maybe she may have told him that she was worried for him in the afterlife because she was raised in

a religion that believed homosexual acts were a sin.
I'm sure she didn't visit him on his deathbed and say, "You're going to Hell, sucka!!" then walk out, But this is how Kelley seems to portray Oprah's personality, I think the more likely scenario is that Oprah visited her brother, had a long, heartfelt discussion with him and mentioned that maybe he wouldn't make it to the highest degree of glory, or something along those lines.
I can imagine her sitting by his bedside, patting his hand and telling him she loves him and that she's worried for him but that she knows he's a good person.
But I don't know Oprah personally, And neither does Kelley. So which one seems more Oprahesque to you

Before Oprah was huge and I don't mean literally, but Kelley does take stabs at Oprah's weight, which I don't put a lot of weight into and was a host of some other showsorry, I stopped reading this over a month ago and my mind is kind of hazy so it's hard to recall some thingsOprah was interviewing some women who had been married to men but wound up divorced because now they were lesbians.
Kelley makes it sound SO appalling that Oprah would even consider asking these women HOW THEY TURNED LESBIAN, What, as if that's not a legitimate question Well, guess what, it is, I mean, if these women had been married to men for over a few years and all of a sudden they reveal to him that they're attracted to other women, you can see how we straight folks could be confused.
And some of us believe our sexual identities are not necessarily nature, but could be nurture, or a combination of nurture and nature.
I don't want to have debates over this, but let me just say that Kelley made herself look stupid by trying to make Oprah seem stupid by asking this question.
It was in the 's and this hadn't really been talked about on day TV and the women and men who watched the show were probably wondering the same thing.


Kelley tried to undermine Oprah once again concerning samesex attraction, When Oprah was still a host on the show before she had her own show, she interviewed women who, I guess, figured out they were lesbians after having been roommates.
To this, Oprah jokes, "Well, I'll never have a roommate then!" Kelley uses this example to remark how terrible Oprah is.
I use that line by Oprah to show how Oprah has a personality, One that may even be good for TV, no



im falling asleep will finish later, more examples up my sleeve, jk. theyre on my notepad. not a literal one. my phones, duh. I am a serious unfan of Oprah's, but this book is so meanspirited it made me feel dirty to read it.
And I don't mean the "dirt": she was pregnant at! She was a prostitute! She did crack cocaine! She let men treat her like trash! Nothing wrong with Kelly reporting all that as those may be facts unknown to readers who haven't watched a lot of Oprah or read a lot of tabloids, but how many times do we need to be told about Oprah's love of fried chicken or how dark skinned she is

Apparently Oprah is the only person in America who isn't allowed to hate her high school or college without it being a symptom of underlying pathology.
Oh, and Oprah breaks off contact with people who sell stories about her or who portray her publicly in a negative light I'm sorry, but who wouldn't do that That hardly rates up there on the "bad things about Oprah" list with encouraging rampant materialism and flogging an unending stream of egocentric masturbatory selfhelp nonsense for two and a half decades.


Kelly undermines the purported objectivity of this biography by never using a neutral word choice when a derogatory one can be used instead.
Her constant barrage of petty sniping detracts from the real critiques to be made, leaving me no more or less respectful of Oprah but awfully sure I wouldn't want to sit next to Kitty Kelly at a dinner party.
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