I read one of this broad's books after having them endlessly recommended to me, and it was the worst slop I have ever read. Then I started reading a nonfiction biography written by a woman, and half the book is the author talking about her own trauma and cheating on her boyfriend (always casting herself in a sympathetic light, of course). I'm at the point where I'm ready to vow to never read anything written by a woman again. Are there any exceptions to the rule that are worth giving my time to?
>>25278712The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
>>25278712The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin is one of my favorite sci-fi books.
>>25278712Woolf is great.Octavia Butler has written 2 good books (Wild Seed and Mind of My Mind). The rest are meh.Jane Austen is fun.Elena Ferrante is surprisingly good.
Trafalgar by Angelica Gorodischer was pretty good actually
is she how those chubby ponytailed fantasy author dudes look to women? she seems friendly but seems completely non-sexual.
Children of men
>>25278712Unironically Pride and Prejudice. If you just hate women (I sympathize) you might not like it but I'm a supporter of repealing the 19th amendment and it's one of my favorite books.
>>25278862She's pretty cute, just a bit autistic or something. She isn't wearing (much?) makeup and the jacket is mannish. Also a bit chubby, gummy, and getting older. But I'd bet it's 90% presentation.
>>25278712No.
>>25278712YoooooWhich book? My local club had her tea monk "solarpunk" book on our list last year. It was the most self conflicting piece of bullshit I've read in a loooong time. The only people that book would appeal to are communist they/thems with an inverted understanding of how society functions. Absolute california-coded libby slop.Try some Elizabeth Moon, MK Wren, or RM Meluch books. Excellent scifi authors. CJ Cherryh's Downbelow Station or Cyteen.Tanith Lee is decent as well. You have to steer away from the contemporary authors. Millennial women suck at writing
>>25278712Little Women and Frankenstein are good.
>>25278712>any exceptionsViriginia Woolf. Wuthering Heights is also good.
>>25278862here's a more recent photo of her
>>25278888yeah it was that exact book, A Psalm for the Wild-Built. Incredibly california-coded book, the main character's only defining trait was that it's non-binary, and she uses they/them pronouns. It made for very confusing reading when one they/them meets another they/them and then they both have a conversation about another group of people. also the main character is supposed to be a "tea monk" (a monk that serves tea and gives therapy to people lol). First chapter, decides to become a tea monk and sucks at it. Second chapter, two year time skip and suddenly is the best tea monk in the world. Third chapter, feels angsty and goes for a walk in the woods and the whole tea monk thing is never mentioned again. It's telling that everyone who likes these books and similar "cozy reads" says contrite phrases like "it feels like a hug." It's slop for childless millenial women
>>25278712I just bought this comedic novel by a female author, but it's from 1932 so I remain optimistic
>>25278716Yeah most history books written by women is aight
the same thread every week
>>25278712>hasn't read The Passion According to GH>hasn't read The Hour of the Star>hasn't read Near to the Wild Heart>hasn't read Agua Viva
Maybe find books in a genre that you like written by woman. Any author, regardless of gender, might write in a style that you don't connect with.A method for finding books you like is to go to the library, find something that looks interesting, read several pages, and put it down if it doesn't appeal to you. Works regardless of author gender. Or find recommendations online.
>>25278712Marina Tsvetaeva Is the only female writer which I liked a lot, enough to be categorized with the men.The rest of the women writers can go to hell though.
>>25279070Clarice Lispector fucking sucks
>>25278712Jane Austen deserves the hype. Pride and Prejudice was enjoyable and I plan on reading everything else she wrote eventually.
>>25278737Eh. I expected better honestly but I forget that sci-fi fans have execrable taste
>>25278712Best books I've ever read.
>>25278712Christina Stead is a great Australian author, easily in the three greatest Aussie authors. Start with The Man Who Loved Children.
>>25278930Lice? She looks like a big ol baby now
>>25278712How about Agatha Christie? She's kind of a lynchpin of this highly rational genre that succeeding men strive to emulate and all.
Flannery O'Connor. She only wrote 2 novels though, the rest is short stories and non-fiction (She died at 39). She also did cartoons for the student newspaper when she was at university.
>>25281238mannish but still would
>>25279745She's a lesbian.
>>25279105>F-F-F-F-F-F-FILTERED
>>25278712Slouching Toward Bethlehem - Joan Didion
>>25279107Mansfield Park would be described as fascist if it was published today
>>25278712Anything by Savitri Devi.
>>25278870>he's pretty cute, just a bit autistic or somethI hope to God you're at least 70 years old
>>25278712Patricia Highsmith:"Highsmith was an avowed antisemite; she called herself a "Jew hater" and described The Holocaust as "the semicaust" and "Holocaust, Inc."[8][9]:25 While living in Switzerland in the 1980s, she used nearly 40 aliases when writing to government bodies and newspapers deploring the Israeli state and the influence of the Jews."
>>25283366>She was an alcoholic who by middle age drank from breakfast till bedtime. She smoked 40 Gauloises cigarettes a day and rarely ate fruit or vegetables. In 1973 her doctor advised her that if she did not change her lifestyle she might not live past 55She just like me fr
Marguerite You'recenar
>>25278712>Wuthering Heights>Sexual Personae>SapphoThese>>25283366>>25283035That's about it. I think there were some good woman novelists out of East Asia, but I haven't read them yet
>>25278712I don't know, I have a narrative account on Washington DC that I haven't read, which is by a woman.. It might be good?
