/lit/ - Literature

who asked?

Yourencar is pretty good so far

>>21506479
It's reddit

>>21506489
Then what's considered 4chan?

>>21506494
Carson Mccullers

>>21506459
I would rather die on my feet reading a faggot like kneel gayman than capitulate and read ANY words from a woman

>>21506459
I think I read more than enough

Not my job to validate you

>>21506459
name ten books

>>21506504
>do you feel in charge

>>21506459
I can barely stomach LeGuin and I dropped Munroe. Same for Connie Willis.
Shelley, Austin, and the Bronte sisters get a pass but women from 200 years ago are far removed from modern women.
I think I'll pass anon. You can keep your "modern, very important" female translation of Ovid, thanks.

>>21506459
>/lit/ should read
ftfy

>>21506459
>>21506575
>/lit/ should...
stopped reading there.
I disagree on principle.

>>21506459
I'm reading Ann Granger's Mitchell and Markby series currently, it's pretty good.

>>21506459
back to r*ddit

>>21506547
Shelley was ghost written by Byron while she blew him

>>21506526
Random order:
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Gravity and Grace
My Friend Flicka
Gone with the wind
Rebecca
Ten Little Niggers
The Princess of Cleves

Huhhhh...
Dialogues of Catherine of Siena
The Heptameron

You Will Never Read an Author

>>21506823
Anglo kangs can't stop winning

But I don't read fantasy and romance?

>>21506912
You WILL read the dying earth genre and you WILL like it

>>21507123
How is Zothique? Have read nightlands and Dying earth

>>21506912
>he hasn't read Plato
kekekekekeke everyone laugh at the plen

I read "Ice" and it was okay. It was interesting how blurred the lines between what actually happened and the narrator's dreams/fantasies were.

why come you niggas not tell me about Wittkop?
reading The Necrophiliac right now. It's simply beautiful. Guy rapes fucks a dead little girl until she throws up black goo. His sexual awakening comes from him cumming to his mother's death. It's really funny.

>>21506459
Why?
>>21506900
Terrible list.

>>21506520
Who dis cutie?

>>21507600
Thanks. This post alone is a perfect illustration of everything a person should avoid - in literature, in thought, in associations, everything.

Abomination.

>>21506459
/lit/ should read more in general. Period.

I read Ursula K. LeGuin. Sorry ladies, she ruined it.

>>21507353
very good

>>21506459
reading is for fags, especially when the author is female

>>21508288
/lit/ would rather come up with cringe reasons to not read, like the author being female, despite the fact that all of the male writers they supposedly love read female writers without an issue

I haven't read anything written by a woman since I read Harry Potter in middle school

>>21508320
There's no need to ever read a female author when there's still books written by men left to read. You won't run out.

>>21508288
I only read pre-information age science fiction. If your book doesn't include the words "cocktail hour", I'm not interested. I have a two-scene minimum on protagonists waxing philosophically while drinking whiskey highballs and smoking on the decks of their hyperspace ships.

>I should read someone due to their sex

I'm thinking no.

>>21506499
Because tomboy is close enough to twink?
>>21506526
The Good Earth - Buck
Speedboat - Adler
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - McCullers
Three Lives - Stein
To The Lighthouse - Woolf
Outline - Cusk
Ice - Kavan
The Summer Book - Jansson
The Hour of the Star - Lispector
These Festive Nights - Blais

I will, after I've read everything written by great male authors twice.

>>21506459
Way too soon to even think about forgiving the eternal femoid

>>21508473
Every single one of those is a cutie. Count me in.

>>21508254
Fleur Jaeggy

>>21508261
nothing more pathetic than larping as a puritan

>>21508510
>anti-necrophilia
>puritan
Your standards really are high aren't they, abomination?

>>21508520
>I'm anti-murder so I refuse to read crime and punishment

>>21508538
HAHAHA! Now this is midwit tier logic.

>>21508555
yeah, it's your logic

>>21508348
woah please give me recommendations oh based one

>female authors

>>21508786
>pic
A thousand fires are not enough to burn such heresy.

>>21508786
if we could have fewer people like this, we'd be better off.

>>21508560
You can't even imagine my logic with that smut-rotted cavity that used to house your brain.

Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, George Elliot, George Sand (but not really), Sevigné, and Emily Bronte. These are the only women I'm not posturing when I say I like.

>>21506459

There are many great female authors and their stuff gives me an insight into what it's like for them as a man

Man a lot of them go through some seriously fucked up shit from a young age

>>21509477

Barbara Kingsolver and Maya Angelou

>>21506459
Maybe more female authors should try writing things that aren't fucking trash.

>>21509508
You just have trash taste. That is the more likely answer

last year 22 out of the 69 books i read were by women

>>21506459
no

>>21509455
I can because you've used your logic in this post here >>21508520 where you confuse fiction with reality
Anyway, Wittkop is an excellent stylist. Reminds me a lot of Nabakov, but funnier and nastier. I'm glad I discovered her and that there are still more great writers out there to find.

been meaning to read minna canth

>>21506459
I am reading Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" and it is super boring. I don't even want to finish it. I get what she's doing in the book and why she's doing it, but she picked some of the dullest shit to write about. Are all female literary novelists so drab?

>>21506459
I read whatever interests me, no matter the author's gener. It just happens that what I read is mostly written by males (history, archaeology, sci-fi, zoology, linguistics)
Last year, I wanted to read Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao but gave up once I read in a review there was polyamory bullshit

Reading is my escape from women