/lit/ - Literature

A girl recommended this book to me (shocking I know) and it's not necessarily bad, but why do all women tend to write like this? Write like they are talking at you, having a conversation with you? I guess it's more of a gen x thing. I dislike chuck palahniuk sitting at a bar shooting the shit style. Noticed that with Blindsight too even though I thought the story wasn't bad. Can women/gen x not write beautiful prose? Is it because they have no beauty in their life? No Faith? Constantly cynical and ironic? I guess I have read to much Dunsany and Clark ashton smith, and had it to good. We're never going back are we?