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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
As I get older though, I find that American literature, using a broad defintion here, doesn't hold the same appeal as it used to. The fight between "good" and "evil" is depicted too much in black and white for my taste, the motives and reasons for why a person turns evil are almost non-existent (are some Americans evil by birth? I doubt it), the heroes tend towards the super-human. I find a George Smiley inherently much more fascinating than a Mitch Rapp or Scott Harvath. Hence, I find myself "discovering" British literature of lately. Nuances seem more detailed, characters are more fully portraied.
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For my science fiction I definitely nowadays go first to the British authors. The Carke Award nominations are usually much more interesting than the Hugo or Nebula nominations.
In crime I probably read more British authors also.