I think the american dominance is still too overbearing worldwide. Most of it bores me and like one of my pieces of advice for people going to a bookstore i would just say don't buy an american novel all other things equal. I have great difficulty with religion the god god concept is just i can't i really don't know what to regard that it it it is one i can't fit into my worldview and any of my actions. Even though i read a great deal which also again is based on this, part of it always remains foreign to me but when it comes time to write some new work there will be no turning back.
Michael Orthofer, one of the world’s most prolific book reviewers, joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on — what else? — books. Read to discover why Michael believes everyone should read more fiction, how we should choose books, why American popular literature is overrated, what he thinks about authors like Herman Melville, Fyoder Dostoevsky, Goethe, J.K. Rowling, Arno Schmidt, and many others, his recommendations for the best sites for readers, why studying literature at college was such a big disappointment, how much book covers matter, and why his opinion will never be the final word.
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