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zebra2  ·  4618 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 10 most challenged books of 2011
    I think it's quite different to have a novel include realistic dialogue from colorful characters. It's another thing entirely to attempt to tell a story entirely in the 'dialect' of a half-literate youth.

I'm wholly unconvinced that the two cases here are different, especially with the specific examples given.