Help for readers with English as second language

I suspect a lot of 'brand name' use comes from women's fiction, and is used to convey ideas of status and luxury - the heroine doesn't just wear shoes, she wears 'this season's kitten-heeled ankle-strapped scarlet Manolo Blahniks' and drinks 'a tall semi-skinny caramel frappuchino with a hazelnut shot' instead of a cup of coffee. Mind you, I've come across the same sort of thing in some men's books - I remember a series called 'The Survivalist' where not only were the hero's (many) guns each described in detail, but each round of ammunition!

And Dirty Harry memorably product-placed his Magnum 44

I don't mind brand names or slang in spanking stories. Reading stories in a different language is more than just satisfying my kink. I learn so much about culture, different thinking and so on. So every story and all the unknown expressions, weights and measures open up another world for me. If I can't guess the meaning of a certain expression I ask Google (oh my - another brand) or look it up in a dictionary or wikipedia and this way I learned so many interesting things. Anyway - my English is quite antiquated, still the way I learned it at school centuries ago. So it's always good for me to read stories with modern use of language. Therefore as far as I'm concerned: I like to read stories exactly the way an author wants to express his thougths.

Einige Markennamen, die in die Alltagssprache eingegangen sind:

http://www.arte.tv/de/die-art-und-weise-die-markennamen/1176694,CmC=1176700.html