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Popular fiction in ... Viet Nam

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       At VietNamNet Bridge T.Van reports how Light entertainment genre thriving in Vietnam literature -- as they're apparently surprised that:
A new trend has emerged in literature, which focuses on entertaining.
       Surprise, surprise:
most of the best-selling books are market literary works, which write about love and romantic relations
       And you gotta love some of the spin:
Dr. Nguyen Manh Hung said: "I don't think that reading market literary works is enjoyment. Enjoyment is reading big works of art and education. Market literary books are only for entertainment and for fun."
       (Yes, yes -- some of the nuance has no doubt been lost in translation .....)

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