{"id":6415,"date":"2021-07-02T06:16:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T10:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/?p=6415"},"modified":"2021-07-02T06:16:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T10:16:18","slug":"dont-read-english-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/dont-read-english-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Read English Novels!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrity Irish writer Marian Keyes made headlines<\/a> when she said she doesn’t read male writers because their lives aren’t as interesting as women’s lives–they were “limited.”\u00a0 I totally get her frustration.<\/p>\n

Because I don’t read English writers.\u00a0 I mean I know that they write books, but if I can read books by American writers, why bother?\u00a0 What could be more limited than an English novel?<\/p>\n

I hear about all those English books when they get made into endless boring shows on PBS, but what’s the point?\u00a0 English people’s lives are beyond limited.\u00a0 Poldark<\/em>?\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 I watched ten minutes and all they did was walk back and forth along cliffs with the wind blowing through their hair, though sometimes they rode back and forth along cliffs.\u00a0 That says almost everything you need to know about England.\u00a0 Oh yeah, there’s also Jane Austen.\u00a0 Bonnets.<\/p>\n

The English truly have such limited experience.\u00a0 I mean, come on, they live on a crummy little island for God’s sake and nobody even gets voted off (well maybe immigrants down the road thanks to Boris Johnson)\u00a0 And it’s not even their own island.\u00a0 They have to share it with two other countries, Wales, whatever that is, and Scotland, which at least has whiskey.<\/p>\n

You see all those goofy soldiers at Buckingham Palace marching back and forth like Poldark without cliffs and when’s the last time the English won a war on their own without American help?\u00a0 That was against Napoleon, right?<\/p>\n

Haven’t there been enough English novels written already–can’t they just give it a rest? Don’t the English have better things to do?\u00a0 Like figure out why they’re so brutal to people marrying into that hot mess royal family?\u00a0 And why that whole Brexit thing has been like they were the drunk-ass party guest who keeps saying he’s going but just won’t get the hell off your couch?<\/p>\n

So English writers, just **** off, as Marian Keyes said about her male colleagues, without the asterisks, of course, bless her heart.<\/p>\n

Lev Raphael is the author of Department of Death<\/a> and 26 other books in genres from memoir to mystery.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrity Irish writer Marian Keyes made headlines when she said she doesn’t read male writers because their lives aren’t as interesting as women’s lives–they were “limited.”\u00a0 I totally get her frustration. Because I don’t read English writers.\u00a0 I mean I know that they write books, but if I can read books by American writers, why … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6415"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6418,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6415\/revisions\/6418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}