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What’s the worst book you’ve ever read? For me it’s Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. An anthology of forgettable ‘ow the edge’ stories with an absolutely dreadful frame narrative that mocks writers doing outrageous things to become famous, which is pretty ironic considering the first story in it is Guts.

Truth and Reality : I have a theory that cultures have a preference for either of them. This can easily be found in their preferred word of choice in the sentence “Did he really/truly do that ?". English prefers Reality (although “truly” is not unheard of), French prefers Truth ("Il a vraiment fait ça ?"). Spanish is in reality’s camp (realmente) as Portuguese. Finnish, Italian, Chinese and Indonesian use Truth. Russian uses a mixture of both, Japanese also, with the added idea of authenticity. Here is a crude map of the matter. Can you add to it ?