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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
Posted by TIGERSTORM
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Member since Feb 2009
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Posted on 3/30/24 at 4:48 pm to
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.
Posted by VOR
Member since Apr 2009
63511 posts
Posted on 4/4/24 at 12:01 pm to
I think the Brontë sisters, as well as
Mary Shelley,are worth checking out.
But that’s me.
Posted by oauron
Birmingham, AL
Member since Sep 2011
14512 posts
Posted on 4/4/24 at 1:29 pm to
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 see with female authors and female protagonists is fairly annoying though.
Posted by rebelrouser
Columbia, SC
Member since Feb 2013
10616 posts
Posted on 4/4/24 at 1:41 pm to
quote:

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 by shinerfan
Duckworld(Earth-616)
Member since Sep 2009
22319 posts
Posted on 4/4/24 at 2:25 pm to
quote:

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.
This post was edited on 4/4/24 at 2:39 pm
Posted by Adajax
Member since Nov 2015
6125 posts
Posted on 4/4/24 at 8:14 pm to
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 by CCT
LA
Member since Dec 2006
6224 posts
Posted on 4/6/24 at 10:55 am to
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.
This post was edited on 4/6/24 at 12:10 pm
Posted by geauxpurple
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2014
12348 posts
Posted on 4/11/24 at 9:37 am to
Doris Kearns Goodwin for history.
Posted by SammyTiger
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Feb 2009
66523 posts
Posted on 4/19/24 at 2:03 pm to
I mean they tend to be the ones pumping out shitty romance novels but there are good female writers in various genres.
Posted by CCT
LA
Member since Dec 2006
6224 posts
Posted on 4/19/24 at 6:23 pm to
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 by VOR
Member since Apr 2009
63511 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 9:23 am to
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.
Posted by PrezCock
Florida
Member since Sep 2019
600 posts
Posted on 4/23/24 at 2:44 pm to
quote:

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 by ZenFNmaster
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Nov 2007
2474 posts
Posted on 4/25/24 at 6:25 pm to
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.
Posted by AUCom96
Alabama
Member since May 2020
4994 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 6:26 am to
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 by Boss13
Mobile
Member since Oct 2016
1157 posts
Posted on 4/29/24 at 9:30 pm to
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.
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