A wildly successful mainstream author criticized for using anachronistic slang in her novel 'Mania' that shows a horrendous misunderstanding of contemporary youth language.
"Lionel Shriver (book is 'Mania') has an 11 year old boy quoted as using the words: Junk, pea-brain, thickos, dummies... in 2011. I don't think a youth has uttered a single one of these words since 1978. How do wildly successful mainstream authors get away with this kind of horrendous misunderstandin"