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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
It's not the geographical flaws, if any, that annoyed me. I have no sense of space or orientation, so I probably wouldn't have noticed them.  Rather, it's his description of France and French people that showed he had no clue. Based on the 10.5 pages I read of course. |
Yes, I think that is a risk a lot of authors, screenwriters, directors, etc take as I do notice things like that (for my location), yet from what you are talking about, I really wouldn't know having not been to France... Does that make sense? In other words, I am thinking that an author probably figures only the reader from France will really notice these problems and compared to the big picture, that is a minority. I've seen it in other books when the descriptions of people and places really seem out of whack with what I know. This is part of why I think authors are better off sticking with what they know when it comes to real settings for their novels (as opposed to SF, which obviously would be exempt from this opinion).