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Does anybody else have the rather annoying habit of finding themselves taking on the persona of the narrator of whatever book it is one's reading? At least to a certain extent. This wouldn’t be too much of a problem depending on the narrator, but I’m reading Vernon God Little, and if you’ve read it, you’ll realise why this isn’t such a good thing.

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[mendozy]

What is it with you and non-nationals? (Probably not the right term, but have just been bemoaning the latest legal developments in that area with my brother.)

We're thinking of doing an article on the whole chicklit phenomenon. It's by no means unique to Ireland, but there is a crazy amount of successful Irish chicklit writers, for some reason. In fact the Guardian or someone did a piece on the Irish chicklit success stories (har di har) recently.

They make-a me sick. But they sure as hell make a lot of money.

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what aspects in particular were you bemoaning? And it's not that I have a thing for non-nationals: most of the people I've been with are irish, it's just that a higher percentage than most are 'non-nationals'. I guess you *could* say I was more open to difference.

re: chicklit. While I think it's awful, you could look at it as the continuing development of the book to suit the modern world. Nowadays nobody wants to read The Plague or Brave New World on the DORT to some crappy business job in the morning.

[trailerglam]

weird - I thought something as generic and useless as chick-lit could only be popular here in the U.S. I cant tell you how many times I've gone to the bookstore to find a Neal Stephensen or a Thomas Hardy novel and had to sift through loads of shiny large-print books with lipsticks, high heels, and purses on the covers. oh, and btw, I totally understand your non-national interests.

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I don't know whether it's a good thing that chicklit isn't unique to ireland or that it's a virus reading to consume us all. At least you don't have to price 100s of them everyday (unless you work in a bookshop, in which case you do).

and yes. non-nationals are great, aren't they? except for that one i was referring to. she turned out to be a little insane.