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What is the most high-brow literature that you can expect a woman to enjoy? I notice a trend among literature-interested women enjoying certain authors or books. They tend to like Kafka, Murakami, Dostoevsky, philosophy, psychoanalysis and sometimes postmodernism. They also tend to not be fond of poetry, epic poetry, and books about male emotions (ie. Young Werther). There has to be some kind of female canon available somewhere. Maybe a woman has a blog or a Goodreads account where there's an easily available list of this type of canon. Can someone help me find it?

>> No.14479707

>>14479695
>Dostoevsky

But women can't understand Dostoevsky.

>> No.14479713

Any literature. Women are intelligent and contribute to society.

>> No.14479749

Neither of your replies help me. Even a personal anecdote of this type of woman would help.

>> No.14479790

Should I re-post this thread but find a photo of some big-breasted woman to put along side it? I find it a cheap way to get replies, but it seems like nothing else works on this board.

>> No.14479802

>>14479790
Your thread is shit and you have the balls to whine? lmao, fuck off

>> No.14479823

>>14479802
I'm making a request for myself. My intention isn't to provide "quality" content for you, diaper-shitting child.
Go back to your 100 threads about pornography, politics, sexual frustration, and memes which border on 2011 style rage comics.

>> No.14480231

>>14479695
My gf likes gravity's rainbow. Reading is a feminine skill anyways

>> No.14481485

Jane Austen

>> No.14481889

>>14479695
The problem is, many women are endlessly self-absorbed. A normal woman can read and enjoy anything proportional to her intelligence. A woman who's as obsessed with being admired as modern bougie girls are won't give the time of day to anything that can't be pimped for likes.

Gotta find a non-bougie. My advice is to avoid the universities, they're dominated by bougies to the exclusion of all else.

>> No.14481901

>>14479713
All women do is slow men down

>> No.14481909

>>14479695
I don't know I'm going to recite the Iliad to this classicist girl and I'll see if she likes it. Problem is how, I don't when or in whhst context. Should I just go near her and start reciting?

>> No.14481934

>>14481909
Quality bait, I'm impressed. Had me going for a second, but "should I just walk up to her" was a bridge too far

>> No.14481949

>>14479695
A lot of them like Roland Barthes, I've noticed.

>> No.14482018

>>14481909
That's way too autistic. Best case scenario is that she'll realize you're autistic and continue the conversation out of sympathy.

>> No.14482694

>>14479713
some are
their only important contribute to the society is birthing kids anything other than that was either invented by men done better by men or would have been done better by men if they had an interest in it

>> No.14483658

>>14479695
My mom's favorite book is the classical Chinese book A Dream of Red Mansions, really quite as highbrow as you can get, but she's Chinese herself so idk

She did read Proust in Chinese and stopped after the second book In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower which is actually a pretty patrician point to stop

>> No.14483741

>>14479695
My gf likes Joyce, Beckett, Rabelais, Bely, Mishima and Platonov

>> No.14483804

>>14479695
my sister churns through fanfiction and scifi/fantasy fiction at an alarming rate

>> No.14483829 [DELETED] 

>>14479695
I always read stuff like this in a nasally, posh accent.

>> No.14483831

>>14479695
women read dosto?

>> No.14483864

>>14479707
He’s rly not that deep to comprehend beyond the hurr life has no meaning besides Christ and rational nihilism hurrrr so deep thanks to my male brain I am euphoric.

>> No.14483870

>>14479695
Just tell them what to like.

>> No.14483878

>>14483864
>implying any women can understand notes from underground protagonist

>> No.14483881

>>14483878
True no woman can end up that pathetic

>> No.14483893

>>14483881
True but on the other hand no woman can end up great either. So its a trade off

>> No.14485162

>>14483658
We're talking about white women here

>> No.14485706

>>14483864
Holy shit, are you actually retarded?

>> No.14486389

>>14479695
>They tend to like Kafka, Murakami

Man alive.

>> No.14486393

>>14481485
this

>> No.14486613

>>14479695
Do women like Dostoevsky? I recently got a chick into him, but on that same vein I also recommended him to another girl and she said "Thanks... I think I'll stick with my Atwood". It seems they usually just read the authors that have recently had their books turned into movies.

>> No.14486658

>>14486613
Big D is anathema to women

>> No.14486859

>>14486658
That's exactly what I was thinking.

>> No.14486877

>>14479695
Same as men desu
All these counterexamples here work equally well for 'proving' that men have lowbrow taste