Literarily speaking how did these books gain so much popularity among a certain type of white woman?
The actual womanchild just reads ya genreslop yknow
>>25179561white women are the only people who read in the united states (please don't sperg out at statistics), they're more likely to be liberal, online female literary culture circles around the same handful of loci -- red scare, dimes square, late 2010s tumblr, etc -- so they all wind up reading the same handful of things. it's the female version of a shelf containing nothing but Endless Funny, 2666, Youwussies, Deleuze, and a biography of Hitler. PROTIP: if you read poetry semi-seriously, lift weights semi-frequently, and dress decently, these women will beg to be pounded through the mattress because they're surrounded by effeminate limpwrists on one side and grindset spreadsheetcels on the other. Ted Hughes figured this out long ago and pulled not one but two BPD art hoes. fair warning that they might destroy your life
>>25179561Womenchildren read No Longer Human and Shirly Jackson?These lists really are completely meaningless.
>>25179571No, the readers of OPs chart are midwit women who post their reviews on letterboxd, smoke cigarettes for the "aesthetic", are into trad catholicism, etc.they're the equivalent of manchild core readers who are into black metal and listening to sam hyde and think reading wolfe and mccarthy and lafferty makes them intellectuals
>>25179561Fuck you benchod bloody, tbqh OP
>>25179583What do the smart women read?
>>25179561women do not like Woolf
>>25179589smut
>>25179589nothing, apparently
>>25179593>I look like an intellectual Haha… she doesn’t. But at least she’s honest about the fact that she’s not. What she is though, is attractive.>>25179561The same women who like the shit in the pic do not read Woolf. White Nights is probably much more apt
>>25179561I'll be honest: I didn't really find No Longer Human that special. It's just some Japanese dude with Schizoid Personality Disorder who's also undiagnosed because he lived 100 years ago.
>>25179650>I didn't really find No Longer Human that specialThat’s fine, no one who isn’t a complete midwit did.
>>25179655Are you calling me a midwit?
>>25179660The opposite. Read it again.
>>25179561>otessa whatever and plathFemcel core, I am not like the other girls>tarttDark academia aesthetic, tumblr mood board>JacksonGot some moderately successful and actually rather good Netflix adaptations>wolfe and lisepctorActually great women author, one also being queer so more brownie points>dazaiWeeb shit for normalfags who find mishima's politics too off-putting Dunno the rest
>>25179650two years ago my therapist told me that I should read this book because I reminded him strongly of the main character. never read it, only aware of it from /lit/. I wish this was a joke but unfortunately I'm serious
>>25179577This is correct, spbp>>25179561>>25179700>Ottessafemcel core, but still good. that's not Ottessa's best though, probably Homesick For Another Planet or Eileen >plathAriel is kino but The Bell Jar is for precocious high schoolers who idolize Lana Del Rey >tarttincredibly overrated. The Secret History is very popular with women who age out of reading yaoi. used to know a woman who had the goldfinch from The Goldfinch tattooed between her tits>Clarkenever read her>JacksonHaunting of Hill House is kino, one of the language's best ghost stories>PagliaRed Scare core. belongs in the "wrong but fascinating" category besides breakdown of the bicameral mind and aberration in the heartland of the real. women who own a copy of this book tend to hate men and love rough sex, which is interesting from a sociological perspective>Woolfgreat. to the lighthouse is kino>Dazaioverrated but still good>Lispectorbasically an alien in the form of an incredibly beautiful brazilian woman who decided to write things that can barely be called novels. kino >Didionoverrated but still good, Year of Magical Thinking one of her better books. the woman this jpg describes likes to think of herself as that photo of Didion smoking>We Have Always Lived in the Castlenot as good as Hill House>Yellow Wallpaperbaby's first feminism, not really a great story, more notable for being one of the first of its kind
>>25179561Because they're not books, so much as they're fashion accessories.Women cannot resist anything that is presented or marketed as being fashion/trendy.
>>25179720Paglia is right about everything. Aberration and Bicameral Mind were wrong about everything. Very different.
>>25179561I was given the year of magical thinking as a gift when my father passed. It was supposed to talk about grief, but all that bitch did was name-drop and attend lavish parties. I guess that's how the rich and famous handle grief, but wtf?
>people on this board unironically fell for the Lispector meme
>>25179922if you would please consult the chart where all three are in the "wrong but fascinating" category>>25179928>thinks he's too good for Lispector
consult the chart for unbiased picks
>>25179944I AM too good for lispector
>>25179950Maybe Honor Levy isn't that bad...
>>25179720>used to know a woman who had the goldfinch from The Goldfinch tattooed between her titsHow big were her tits?
>>25179704grim. you're probably either autistic or schizoid personality disorder.
>>25179955Honor is /ourqueen/ peasant.
>>25179968Decently sized, couldn't guesstimate a cup offhand I'm afraid. She's a lesbian now but before that she liked to vaguepost about how some guy she met at a bar last nite/last week/etc fucked her through the mattress. Many such cases
>>25179969that therapist referred me to a psychiatrist and (at least according to the therapist) they had a fight over whether or not I was schizoid, therapist saying yes and shrink saying no. don't think they ever came to a conclusion. still need to read the book
>>25180053>still need to read the bookNah you don’t. Not worth it, it sucks. Or at the very least it is mediocre.
>>25180053Skip it and read ancient metaphysics like a real autist.
>>25179983Honor Levy does seem to be one of the best young women writers after Mossadegh.
>>25180211*Moshfegh
You should read Clarke's Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrel, it's goddamned fantastic.
>>25179561because they're better written then whatever slop you read.
>>25180053yeah, most people don't even know schizoid even exists, including mental health professionals. honestly props to your therapist for figuring it out, but I don't know if recommending a book based on your disorder could be considered good practice.
>>25180237And what slop does OP read? Since you seem to know what it is, otherwise you wouldn’t have made such a comment.
>>25179561If these books were as popular among women as you'd like me to believe the world would be a better place
