ITT: girl books that are actually good
>>25330130Pride and Prejudice
>>25330130My dog skip
God that book better be about pale redhead titties or i'm calling the cops
>>25330130i thought lawrence was a moid
>>25330631my nigga
Will gingers still exist in 3026?
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>>25330661He wrote girl books
>>25330130More book covers need titties.
>>25330130The sheep farmer's daughter series by Elizabeth Moon is pretty good, although it makes me think the author had a masochism kink at the time. the sequel series is even better
>>25330130I'm definitely going to read your book now, Mr. Lawrence
>>25330130Is the book as good as that cover?
Something I find funny about DHL is that he's one of the very few authors who appeals to both women and chuds.
>>25330873I guess that's the mark of a prolific writer.
>>25330130What are some other books with these kind of lust provoking image?
>>25330960And it's a great book too.Knausgård loved it.
>>25330130>girl booksThis is a bit vague. Does it mean books that feature girls, or books that appeal to girls, or what?How about being a bit more specific.GOOD BOOKS WITH FEMALE PROTAGONISTSWe had this a while back and I hoped we might reach, say, 100 semi-sane suggestions so someone could make a chart. But alas it died in infancy as these things do. 100 shouldn't be too hard (certainly if you include short stories). Let's have another go.The Rainbow is a decent entry (it starts off with a male protag. but Ursula takes over by the end). Not the cover I would have chosen ("Vintage Lawrence"? come on) but never mind.>>25330747>The Bell JarI suppose so. In a list of a hundred you probably can't ignore it.OK, might as well start at the top. See pic.
>>25330747Seems retarded >>25330733If I can find one to marry I'll have as many kids with her as possible, so hopefully. >>25330821That would suck in practice. I don't want to get horny when I'm trying to read a novel or looking through my bookshelves.
Female protag, first-person, female author. That's a lot of oestrogen. It's good though. The "too cool for mainstream" crowd like to say Villette is better but obviously it isn't. (Although it's always there if there's trouble getting to a hundred.)
>>25331077Ursula Brangwen canonically has brown hair. I think it's light brown when she's young and then described as "dark" later. Even if she were a ginger that cover illustration is not great. Doesn't really conveny the spirit of the book.(It's not as bad as most modern covers though so maybe shouldn't complain too much.)
C. S. Lewis thought this was his best book. Does it make an "all-time top 100 female protags" list? Dunno, but we can squabble over that when we have too many candidates.
Definitely want this, Emma, Persuasion and P&P (as someone already volunteered). S&S didn't blow my hair back. Northanger Abbey? Guess not. Catherine Morland is a sweetie but the book as a whole is a bit slight, it has to be said.
Another instance of a male author claiming his best book is an untypical work with a female protagonist. I guess it's not what people go to Mark Twain for but never mind.
"High-verbal-IQ neurotic urban woman": The Book. Quintessence of New York.Obviously all these things need to be expunged with fire, but still, the fact remains, it's a pretty decent offering. She writes well. It's funny.Not sure if you would exactly call it a "novel". It's basically a bunch of random confessional vignettes, kinda autobiographical, but also presumably embroidered.If you like it, try Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
She's basically a female Raymond Carver. Not bad at all. Short stories, mostly first-person, confessional style.
OK, that's enough sordid USA modernity. Back to what really matters in life, viz. fresh Alpine air, sunshine and goats. Notice how this cover gets Heidi’s hair colour right, for a change.
It's really not bad. A bit soap-opera-ish, perhaps (especially at the end) but even if so it's pretty good soap opera.
OK better not forget the classics I suppose. Hardy really has it in for his characters and this is one of his most egregious examples. Never mind. Still a great book.
Yes it's an ensemble cast, but Dorothea is definitely first among equals.
>>25331076>The Rainbow is a decent entry (it starts off with a male protag. but Ursula takes over by the end)Thanks for the spoiler, asshole
This is tricky. Definitely a good work with a female protagonist, but finding a decent translation is another matter.Robinson Jeffers is one of the few to get anywhere near conveying the brakes-off savagery. The trouble is his "translation" is a lot more Robinson Jeffers than Euripides.My advice is, look for blank verse. Prose is useless and people (naming no names) who put it into rhymed couplets should have been drowned at birth.
This has a lot in common with Twain's Joan Of Arc. A writer known for satire writes an untypical historical novel about a female saint and maintains it's his best book. Cynics are disappointed idealists.Helena isn't as good as Joan, obviously, but still, she's pretty likeable. The bits where she's arguing with pretentious bollocksmeister "philosophers" in Rome and trying to pin them down to simple practical details (WAS THERE AN ACTUAL PHYSICAL CROSS OR NOT?) are great. As is the bit where the avant-garde Roman "artists" admit they can't actually produce a sculpture of a horse that looks like a horse. Plus ça change.
Female protag, first-person, male author, and he does it pretty well.Basically this is the 2010 film. If you liked that you'll like it. They were really very faithful (more so than with No Country).
When I say this I mean the whole series. Takes her from age seven to age eighteen or so.An excellent antidote to vast swathes of modernity. Impossible to read them and not come away thinking that the people in them were better in every way than the people currently making a living telling us how wicked they were.
>>25330747OK, I will read it. But if it sucks I'm going to become 3x as misogynistic.
Everyone likes Rosalind. She's very patient with Orlando and even forgives him writing "poetry" for her. Truly a girl in a million.
>>25331159It's really not the book to read if you want to avoid (or cure yourself of) misogyny. Esther is exceptionally annoying.
Some people really like the sequels but I didn't think they were as good. Still this one is fun and Anne is great. (I remember some imbecile complaining on Goodreads about her "talking talking talking" all the time. YES SHE DOES TALK A LOT AND SHE’S GREAT.)
>>25331159>>25331172I liked it. my writing would be completely huhdrum if I hadn't. By far the best thing about ot is the voice. It's a little episodic and each section uses visceral symbols of disgust that are happening in a memory or in the narrators mind to parallel what she's experiencing in the moment.
I *suppose*. If you can't get through it (if you can't even get through the introduction) I sympathize.
Not sure if this qualifies since it's non-fiction. But we've had some "thinly-disguised autobiography" already, so . . .I assume many present-day bien-pensant reviewers are torn. On the one hand, ID was everything they're supposed to admire (strong-willed woman who divorced her husband, ran a large business and then wrote criticially-aclaimed literature). On the other hand of course, one automatically has to attack any European person daring to exist in Africa."Now you don't know what to do", as Norm said of the female-authored anti-female joke on SNL.OK, all that aside, it's a pretty good book. One thing I found interesting is the aristocratic spirit she exemplifies. There's a certain imperiousess; a certain disdain for everyday worries; a certain hardness towards others but also towards herself. She just takes it as a given, always, that she will be the one in command.Another thing worth a mention is that she wasn't brought up speaking English from birth (like, say, Nabokov). She really only adopted it seriously as a young woman, when she moved to Africa. That makes the book even more impressive.
OK, last one for the time being. Let someone else suggest something.A funny book here. Weird mixture of good and unreadable. Some of the psychology is acute, but some is bizarre. Clarissa is (supposedly) perfect and her entire family (as well as Lovelace obviously) are basically demons persecuting her. But she's also pretty annoying so you almost sympathize with them. And you're never quite sure if Richardson meant you to feel like that.
Honestly Anne Rice is just so fucking based and real her writing really pulls me in and I have no shame in saying so.
>>25330130I fucking love women so much, bros. Books for this feel.
>>25331021>hot as visceraI hate blurb writers so much
>>25331597The world "blurb" was invented by an American satirist called Gelett Burgess in (I think) the 1920s. He wrote a fake self-help book called "Are You A Bromide?" and advertised it with a parody of contemporary over-the-top sales pitches (like the "hot as viscera" thing you dislike). The term "blurb" was coined in that.See pic attached. It's pretty funny.
>>25331796Actually yeah, this plus Dworkin are great for killing the simp inside you.
>>25331102in many ways, the book that invented Honor Levy…
>>25330130pic related is the only fully nietzschean book i've read
>>25331796>society for cutting up men>scum>it was a ham fisted backronym this whole timeHahahaha!
