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Old 10-02-2007, 12:50 PM
gumpzilla gumpzilla is offline
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Default Re: Help an English lit noob out - need some good fiction

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I love how the vast majority of recommendations here are for American writers.

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- The vast majority of posters are American and thus more likely to be familiar with American letters. Evelyn Waugh isn't exactly standard fare over here.

- I sort of wondered about the appropriateness of suggesting literature that was translated from another language, e.g. Marquez, as that's not really English literature.

Between those two things, you get a pretty good explanation for it.
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