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LisaM

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3. Interesting. I don't read a lot of contemporary fiction by men.

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 07:15 PM

Dec 2024

Part of it is, I suppose, that there are fewer males writing fiction than females, but part of it is the paucity of topics. They write sci-fi and thrillers, neither of which appeal to me in the least. I suppose there are a few war novels thrown in, also not appealing to me.

That's not to say I don't read male authors. I love F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joyce, Faulkner, and Christopher Isherwood. I have enjoyed work by Kingsley Amis. What happened to writers like that? Now it's stuff like John Grisham. Always a quest, heavily plot driven, few if any female characters. Yawn.

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