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re: Does anyone else have this issue or am I just a Misogynistic Pig.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 4:48 pm to Kingshakabooboo
Posted on 3/30/24 at 4:48 pm to Kingshakabooboo
I like almost everything by Tana French, Gillian Flynn, Jane Harper and Laura Lippman. I've read several books by Karin Slaughter and didn't really care for them.
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Posted on 4/4/24 at 12:01 pm to Kingshakabooboo
I think the Brontë sisters, as well as
Mary Shelley,are worth checking out.
But that’s me.
Mary Shelley,are worth checking out.
But that’s me.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 1:29 pm to Kingshakabooboo
I don't necessarily have a problem with female authors as I've liked several books written by female authors. The power fantasy/mary sue tropes that you often see with female authors and female protagonists is fairly annoying though.
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Posted on 4/4/24 at 1:41 pm to PrezCock
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I just felt like the main character was too emotional.
Maybe but he does go through a whole lot of terrible stuff. I tended to like the wolf better.
Posted on 4/4/24 at 2:25 pm to VOR
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the Brontë sisters, as
Read a couple of these many years ago and I thought they were just painfully boring. And redundant. They just kept writing the same book. But they probably weren't aimed at a thirteen year old boy.
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Posted on 4/4/24 at 8:14 pm to shinerfan
There are a few female authors I'll go back to when they've written something new: Tana French, Robin Hobb, the late Sharon K Penman. I'll selectively read other female authors but I prefer male authors. Though the amount of male authors writing female heros who are smarter, stronger, and more skilled than any male character is tiring.
Posted on 4/6/24 at 10:55 am to TIGERSTORM
I’m shamelessly on my 14th or so Karin Slaughter book. She confesses to bring a romance writer with the gruesome crime drama violence. I got pulled in with the Will Trent series, and am now on the Grant County series.
It is obvious the writer is female, but hey, I want to escape. I grew up on 87th Precinct Mysteries and her plots and stories are compelling.
JK Rowling, Christie, Rand…those are really the only others I’ve read. I felt Rand’s characters were dense and one-dimensional, but that is just me.
It is obvious the writer is female, but hey, I want to escape. I grew up on 87th Precinct Mysteries and her plots and stories are compelling.
JK Rowling, Christie, Rand…those are really the only others I’ve read. I felt Rand’s characters were dense and one-dimensional, but that is just me.
This post was edited on 4/6/24 at 12:10 pm
Posted on 4/11/24 at 9:37 am to Kingshakabooboo
Doris Kearns Goodwin for history.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 2:03 pm to Kingshakabooboo
I mean they tend to be the ones pumping out shitty romance novels but there are good female writers in various genres.
Posted on 4/19/24 at 6:23 pm to SammyTiger
I have to say I advocate seriously for readers to follow the Karin Slaughter books. She has gotten better with each book and the last Will Trent book, After That Night is one of the best books I have ever read.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 9:23 am to Kingshakabooboo
You should try Daphne duMaurier.
She wrote Rebecca adapted to film by Hitchcock) and the short story, “Don’t Look Now”, also adapted to film by Nicholas Roeg.
She wrote Rebecca adapted to film by Hitchcock) and the short story, “Don’t Look Now”, also adapted to film by Nicholas Roeg.
Posted on 4/23/24 at 2:44 pm to rebelrouser
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I tended to like the wolf better.
Absolutely. The wolf was great. He is how the main character should have been. The main character should have been calling the wolf "little brother".
Posted on 4/25/24 at 6:25 pm to Kingshakabooboo
For me, if an author can make it to where I have to look at the cover and see their name to know of they're male or female, then they've done their job.
In my taste and experience (and bias of course ) men are able to do this far better than the women I have read.
In my taste and experience (and bias of course ) men are able to do this far better than the women I have read.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 6:26 am to Kingshakabooboo
I have enjoyed numerous female authors up until recently. I'm a big fan of fantasy, and I think there's both an overwhelming glut of female writers and these have a tendency to be a bit too socio-political for my taste.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 9:30 pm to Kingshakabooboo
I think the market is just saturated with women authors. There are many great women authors, many mentioned in this thread, but for every male author there are 10 women writing dimestore "thrillers" or romance novels. Women as a whole are more inclined to think they are more interesting than they are and no one will tell them the truth like they would a man.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 11:20 am to Kingshakabooboo
Since I was in high school too many years ago I’ve always loved to read. I bet I could count on one hand the number of books written by women that I’ve read and enjoyed. I don’t know why but I totally understand what you’re saying.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 12:21 pm to Kingshakabooboo
I've read plenty of female authors recently and do not notice an appreciable difference. I do tend to steer clear of anything that tries too hard to inject modern tastes/views into the narrative, so I perhaps avoid some of the ones you are complaining about. I do think there are likely more female writers now than ever before, after seeing J.K. Rowling write herself out of a trailer to become one of the wealthiest people in Britain.
Posted on 5/15/24 at 6:11 pm to Kingshakabooboo
I make one exception…robin hobb.
But that’s really it
But that’s really it
Posted on 5/16/24 at 5:38 pm to Kingshakabooboo
Science fiction written by women are pretty unbearable. It has become so oversaturated too.
Not all of them, but a vast majority I just can’t get into.
Not all of them, but a vast majority I just can’t get into.
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