Females in lit

[Anonymous No.18367261]

has there ever been a good book with a female lead? after reading thousands of books i decided to stop reading any with a female main character because they all turn out to be shit.

[Anonymous No.18367272]

women cant actually be this shallow and fall for advertising that is children's level, r-right?

[Anonymous No.18367291]

>>18367272
3 sisters and they all do

[Anonymous No.18367456]

>>18367261
The Age of Innocence is good.

[Anonymous No.18367465]

>>18367261
what exactly do you not like about female leads?

[Anonymous No.18367485]

>>18367261
I really like these covers so her and Ayn Rand are the only females I'm going to read.
I tried JK Rolling but it's the same shit every-time, also only one class sucks.
Ah, I'll probably read Simone too, just to say I'm more feminist than college girls.

[Anonymous No.18367494]

>>18367456
the main character is a male and its a shitty love triangle, if wikipedia is true
>>18367465
every story with one is bad

[Anonymous No.18367502]

>>18367485
>I really like these covers so her and Ayn Rand
literally judging a book by its cover

i was talking about characters in the books no the authors

[Anonymous No.18367624]

It's because the Hero's Journey intuitively doesn't make sense with a female protagonist. Women just don't do cool shit. They don't discover, create or fight in real life so it just feels out of place in fictional stories. They can make great side characters, just not protagonists.

[Anonymous No.18367831]

>>18367261
Defiance by Savitri Devi, it's her trial and prison memoir for spreading pro-Nazi propaganda in post war occupied Germany.

[Anonymous No.18367866]

>>18367261
The Crying of Lot 49

[Anonymous No.18367884]

>>18367866

Bleeding Edge too

[Anonymous No.18367900]

Well, Iain M. Bank books have some good ones -
Surface Detail or Matter i.e.

[Anonymous No.18368032]

lolita

[Anonymous No.18368034]

>>18367261
>implying woman actually come to 4chan

[Anonymous No.18368041]

>>18367261
>>18367494
>erroneously hates women in books
>bases his opinions off the wikipedia pages of books, not the books themselves
a pristine specimen of the average /lit/izen everybody

[Anonymous No.18368135]

>>18367261
Belle de Jour

[Anonymous No.18368140]

>>18367261
Acting like Virginia Woolf didn't exist

[Anonymous No.18368154]

>>18367502
anon, my post's a joke
but the covers are really cool and that's what got my attention for real

[Anonymous No.18368169]

>>18367261
The Bell Jar

[Anonymous No.18368207]

>>18367261
Jason and the Golden Fleece

[Anonymous No.18368218]

>>18367272
Men read hairy potter and hunger gayms too lol

[Anonymous No.18368248]

>>18367624

Nah. > queen victoria - a WOMAN - can’t have a journey through tragedy to greatness, LIBTARDS

Women are gay sure, but they can be protagonists irl lol, it happens

> the oracle of Delphi, a WOMAN, doesn’t discover or create ANYTHING

[Anonymous No.18368273]

>>18368032
Dolores played Humbert like the filthy simp he is

[Anonymous No.18368289]

>>18367261
Do short stories count?

If so Ted Chiang's The Story of Your Life is very very good.

As a whole I think I agree with you though.

[Anonymous No.18368318]

I don't understand why a male author would write a novel with a female protagonist. Why not a man? A bizarre but common choice.

[Anonymous No.18368349]

>>18368273
while that may be true, humbert got some real perks out of it. Of course I am referring to her perky, firm nipples

[Anonymous No.18369287]

>>18368218
do they read it to feel like they are being empowered?

>inb4 "trannys"

[Anonymous No.18369298]

>>18368034
The fallacy here is that healthy women does not rank shit at all. So only the undeveloped ones would have the inclination to do so.

[Anonymous No.18369308]

>>18367261
Dona Flor and her two husbands is the last book with a female lead that I read and I thoroughly enjoyed that one. You're just a pathetic incel and your parents are ashamed of you.

[Anonymous No.18369312]

>>18368154
the books themselves are shit though, they're read by tumblr trannies

[Anonymous No.18369370]

>>18367831
Savitri-simps fuck off
Worthless homosexual proto-hippie that fags like because of her Nazi shilling.

[Anonymous No.18369373]

>>18367900
The Wasp Factory's protagonist is a nice, strong female :^)

[Anonymous No.18369374]

>>18367261
Women don't read books.

[Anonymous No.18369383]

>>18368154
>>18367485
Those covers are garish garbage, Anon. You have terrible taste.

[Anonymous No.18369744]

>>18367485
kill yourself, my man

[Anonymous No.18369852]

Atlas Shrugged

[Anonymous No.18370048]

Thirst for Love