Al wrote:
"The 'hooligans' don't use baseball bats, though. They're
more into blades. And Samurai swords."
Samurai swords? Wow, that's the kind of detail that would
make me skeptical of a book's world being real, unless the
author was going for over the top (in other words, I'd
believe it in Bruen's Brant series). Truth is stranger than
fiction.
"Yes, naturally I've received impressions of American culture
from reading American fiction. I'm not suggesting that that
doesn't happen. Readers interpret, like I said. Reality is
subjective. Surely fiction must be too."
True, but I have trouble believing that an author believes
his books to be totally up to the reader. Do you really not
have an ideal reading in mind? Do you really not hope that a
reader's understanding will be at least close to your
intended meaning?
Mark
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