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HarryT · 06-21-2010, 03:05 AM

We even have coffee table books to put on our coffee tables.

Seriously, though, if you are writing a book set in a different country, it's always as well to check on these cultural things. I must admit that I find the US Editions of "Harry Potter" (to use a popular example) very difficult to read, because they portray a Britain with "parking lots", "mail slots", "sneakers", and all sorts of other things that we don't have (we have "car parks", "letter boxes", and "trainers") and it just grates on a British reader to read such terms.

06-21-2010, 03:05 AM	#6
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	We even have coffee table books to put on our coffee tables. Seriously, though, if you are writing a book set in a different country, it's always as well to check on these cultural things. I must admit that I find the US Editions of "Harry Potter" (to use a popular example) very difficult to read, because they portray a Britain with "parking lots", "mail slots", "sneakers", and all sorts of other things that we don't have (we have "car parks", "letter boxes", and "trainers") and it just grates on a British reader to read such terms. Last edited by HarryT; 06-21-2010 at 03:18 AM.