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Originally Posted by gmw
... and one of the factors that I considered was that she was Australian.
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Yeah, I'm region-ist, in that if I have a choice between several different books to read, I'll make an effort to read more works by Australian authors, having read very little so far, nor have I read any of the local heavyweights such as Tim Winton, Kate Grenville, Peter Carey, etc. Otherwise I don't really care about the origins of the author when it comes to fiction. I would care more if the work in question is non-fiction.
As an aside, thanks for making the Kylie Chan thread. I've seen those books before in many stores, but haven't paid much attention to them probably because to me the covers have:
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maybe more of a feeling of the mysterious east or something (remember the music and the "back in China" scenes from the old Kung Fu television series?).
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Your review as well as others on Amazon have convinced me however that these books seem to move beyond the usual cliches associated with the East, so I've just nabbed the first book off Kobo. Thanks.
