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Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:19:34 2010 No.937576 [Reply] [Original]

Can anyone name a good female author other than Flannery O'Connor?

Not trolling, not trying to be a dick. I have just seriously never read another female author that I enjoyed at all. All of their novels are just stupid and self-important.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:20:34 2010 No.937580 Truman Capote was practically a woman.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:21:34 2010 No.937582 Joyce Carol Oates

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:21:34 2010 No.937583 Alice Munro

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:22:34 2010 No.937586 Ursula LeGuin

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:22:34 2010 No.937588 I really liked Weight by Jeanette Winterson, it's pretty short, too, so you might as well give it a shot.

Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:22:34 2010 No.937589

I'd say Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte but it sounds to my like you'd hate Victorian authors, regardless of sex

I'm reading Handmaid's Tale and am pleasantly surprised by Margaret Atwood, and I've found Virginia Woolf is streets ahead of James Joyce as a "Britannia" modernist

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:22:34 2010 No.937590 Amy Hempel

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:23:34 2010 No.937592 Joanne Rowling

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:23:34 2010 No.937593 hilda doolittle

Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:28:34 2010 No.937612

>>937583

Wikipedia:

"Thus, particularly with respect to her male characters, she may be said to capture the essence of everyman. Her female characters, though, are more complex."

"A frequent theme of her work—particularly evident in her early stories—has been the dilemmas of a girl coming of age and coming to terms with her family and the small town she grew up in."

"She has shifted her focus to the travails of middle age, of women alone and of the elderly."

This is the crap I'm talking about. Females trying to prove they can play ball by using strong female characters and weak male ones. And writing about young girls when they're young and old ones when they're old...well, hey look at me, I can write a thinly veiled autobiography many times over and be a great author. Whoop de doo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:29:34 2010 No.937614 Stephenie Meyer

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:31:34 2010 No.937618 >>937612 I do appreciate all of the suggestions, though, and I am looking into all of them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:32:34 2010 No.937622 >>937612 Derp. Her male characters aren't weak, they just aren't the main characters (hence less complex). You find the exact same thing, but reversed, in Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:34:34 2010 No.937626 >>937622 Well, I'm not really into any of those guys anyway. It's not that the main character has to be male or anything. I just think most female authors are too transparent with their feminism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:37:34 2010 No.937638 >>937635 Don't you fucking dare, Greenspan. Just don't you dare.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:37:34 2010 No.937635 File: 21 KB, 436x450, f912875c876aa349ab365d4bc5f49380.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Do I dare say her name?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:38:34 2010 No.937641 >>937635 Didn't you reject all that?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:40:34 2010 No.937650 Seconding Joyce Carol Oates. A favorite author of mine. Read _A Garden of Earthly Delights_, _Expensive People_, and _them_ (moot give us fucking italics man!)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:41:34 2010 No.937652 Anne Sexton

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:41:34 2010 No.937655 >>937641 The whole banking/mortgage crisis was nothing more than all the wealthy people escaping to Galt's Gulch.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:42:34 2010 No.937661 Surprised no one has mentioned Virginia Woolf Her prose and style were pretty killer. I'd recommend you check out "Mrs. Dalloway" if you're really curious.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:45:34 2010 No.937668 File: 39 KB, 469x428, I_am_totally_serious.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ayn Rand

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:45:34 2010 No.937670 Ay(choke) Ayn Raaaughh Sorry, I can't quite bring myself to say it. Diana Wynne Jones is one of my favorite YA fantasy authors. She deserves to be more widely read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:46:34 2010 No.937672 Angela Carter

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:46:34 2010 No.937673 >>937668 OH, you double nigger. Pre-empting me like that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:49:34 2010 No.937681 Mary Shelley.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:53:34 2010 No.937691 >>937655 More like Galt's GOOCH, amirite?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:54:34 2010 No.937696 Bitches don't know about my Octavia Butler.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:54:34 2010 No.937699 >>937576 >I enjoy Flannery O'Connor Your opinion is invalid.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:55:34 2010 No.937702 U.K. LeGuin, Octavia Butler, George Eliot, Dorothy Parker, the Brontes, Mary Shelley, etc., etc. I know this is 4chan and I enjoy the constant "bitches & whores" drum roll as much as the next Anon, but there are some excellent female authors out there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:56:34 2010 No.937707 Sylvia Plath.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 16:59:34 2010 No.937719 >>937681 That, bitch wrote Frankenstein and created one of the few early end of the world/dystopian novels. She wasn't even that bad, considering most of her work are very pro-'feminist'.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 17:00:34 2010 No.937729 Amy Tan Philippa Gregory Jean Plaidy

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 17:00:34 2010 No.937730 >>937699 >I don't like Flannery O'Connor Go directly to /jp/. Do not pass /co/, do not collect your books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 17:01:34 2010 No.937734 >>937699 Because I enjoy something you don't? Cool, bro.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 17:06:34 2010 No.937763 File: 102 KB, 318x318, 1279137327756.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>937730

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 17:09:34 2010 No.937771 >>937729 Amy Tan blows All of her stories focus on Asian/Western culture shock that wouldn't be surprise a five year old. And the plots are boring and predictable.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 17:11:34 2010 No.937784 >>937771 I know, I hated that piano story we had to do in highschool to. You'll grow up eventually, don't worry.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 17:12:34 2010 No.937785 >>937763 If you don't like lit, then get off /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 17:12:34 2010 No.937788 >>937729 >Amy Tan ASIAN MEN EVIL WHITE MEN GOOD

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 17:16:34 2010 No.937799 I liked Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, although it is prone to melodrama. Barbra Kingsolver fucking sucks. I don't get how she's so popular.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 17:17:34 2010 No.937804 Mushmula Legume

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 17:29:34 2010 No.937846 Carson Mccullers, Georges Sand, Jane Austen

Anonymous Mon Jul 19 17:34:34 2010 No.937862

>>937670
>Diana Wynne Jones
read howl's moving castle and i loved it. had to read it since i loved the miyazaki movie so much.

another anon mentioned sylvia plath and although not the best writer ever she's good. people diss on her poetry too and i think it's not bad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 17:53:34 2010 No.937929 Jody Lynn Nye Diane Duane

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 18:03:34 2010 No.937957 >>937784 What is the piano story?

>>	Anonyomus Mon Jul 19 18:04:34 2010 No.937961 pearl s. buck's alright

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 18:04:34 2010 No.937963 I just mentioned her in another thread but I'll bring her up again: I have enjoyed the work I've read by Hannah Tinti.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 18:13:34 2010 No.937995 ayn rand? :D alice munro

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 18:15:34 2010 No.938001 I'd hit it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 18:20:34 2010 No.938035 >>937862 Robert Lowell wrote something to the effect that Plath's poems are so searing that all other poetry seems silly after reading it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 18:22:34 2010 No.938042 >>938035 I can't help but think him completely full of shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 19 18:33:34 2010 No.938080 >>937995 >ayn rand? You be trollin', son!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 20 00:38:16 2010 No.940080 O. Henry if you like short stories.

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