No "my daddy hates me and my husband beats me, woe is me" shit
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Any actually good books written by female authors?
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Jane Austen
She only wrote one book. She just retreaded it over and over again.
Everything by Virginia Woolf, everything by Katherine Anne Porter, My Ántonia and O, Pioneers by Willa Cather.
Get reading.
Come on, quit this crap, what are you really looking for?
Emily Bronte, Flannery O'Connor, du Maurier, George Eliot
Since I realized I can't identify some of these, let's play a fun gaem where we all try and guess who they are without cheating.
I guess 1 is Maya Angelou or someone like her.
2 is Harry Potter b***h.
I guess number 3 is Elizabeth Barrett Browning or that Raphealite girl I forget her name.
4 is (I think) George Sands.
7, 9 and 18 are too easy. 10 is maybe Dorothy Parker?
12 looks like Zora Neal Thurston, or whatever her name is.
14 is one of the band members of Evanescent.
I think 15 is Agatha Christie.
Clarice Lispector is I think either 11 or 16, but I'm not sure which.
17, like 14, looks like maybe she doesn't belong there.
Shoulda posted a pic.
1 — Maya Angelou isn't it?
2 — Harriet Potter
3 — Mary Shelley? not sure
4 — George Eliot
5 — Charlotte B.
6 — Charlotte B, in close-up
7 — Virginia W
8 — Is that Doris Lessing? Not sure
9 — THIS IS JOHN GALT SPEAKING
10 — Err, no idea. Colette or someone? Maybe it's a very young Daphne du Maurier. It doesn't look like her, but women are cunning creatures.
11 — No idea. Could be someone like Harriet Beecher Stowe
12 — Some random member of the school of resentment. No idea. Is it Zora Neal Hurston?
13 — Ditto
14 — No idea. Looks more like 1970s singer-songwriter than an author.
15 — Agatha "Ten Little Black folk" Christie
16 — Little House In The Big Woods girl, isn't it? They're good books. Laura Ingalls Wilder.
17 — No idea. Why did you put the 17 to make it look as though she had fangs?
18 — Janey babe
19 — Is that Emily D? The general style looks right but it doesn't look like that other famous pic of her.
20 — No idea. Looks like George Eliot again. We got two Charlotte B's, so why not?
Complexity: A Guided Tour is the best high level intro to complexity studies, information theory in physical systems, and computation in physical systems I've found. It's popular science so it isn't super rigorous and it's also fairly basic, but as far as far reaching intros go it is excellent.
Also, every book I've read by Jane Austin is good. Same is true of Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon is the shit. Hannah Arendt is also excellent.
Also Le Guin.
>is the shit
Are you a redditor? Why do you even come here?
>Same is true of Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon is the shit.
Really? I tried reading Song of Solomon because it's apparently Obama's favorite book. It seemed like a parody written just serious enough to make one wonder if it was in earnest. I couldn't tell if my laughter was appropriate the entire time.
Paglia
Flannery O'connor and George Eliot are top tier regardless of sex. The Bronte sisters, Toni Morrison, and Gertrude Stein are all very good. Woolf is alright for a woman, I guess, but you will notice that the people who try to champion her the most are those who are desperate for proving women can write just as well as men. I wouldn't waste my time with her again unless you don't have anything better to read. Sylvia Plath is an even worse case of the same.
In poetry, Emily Dickinson is top tier. Marianne Moore and H.D were very good too.
Ice was OK
I'm gonna read Nightwood soon, will keep you posted.
To people who don't understand French, she was really famous back in the day, but it seems like people don't really read her books anymore.
I'm somewhat curious about this one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_de_Peyrebrune
Murasaki Shikibu
Sei Shonagon
Izumi Shikibu
Lady Ise
Ono no Komachi
The only female writer I ever liked was Evelyn Waugh. All the rest were pure cancer.
Mary Shelley wrote one of the greatest scifi novel ever, Frankenstein. Top 5 even today.
Frankenstein is one of the few books by a female writer that I actually enjoyed.
Which makes me believe that her husband probly wrote it.
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there are great female directors, but authors, never in a billion years. Maybe good philosophers, but being an author is both suffering and sincerity, and generally they have none of these traits, and having both at once is statistically impossible
I never heard of no great female director
>there are great female directors
How many of them aren't dykes though? Some israeli b***h even claims that Leni was a dyke.
>Maybe good philosophers
Lmao cite one.
Umm..hypatia?
I read the first Crestomancy book by Diana Wynne Jones. It's pretty comfy, she wrote Howl'd Moving Castle too (there's a Miyazaki movie of it) I'd recommend that one too.
Is it possible George Eliot was trans? She kinda looks like a man
Is that Roger Waters?
She was just fugly, but incredibly smart and sensitive, which made her develop a soul. It's no coincidence that the most beautiful people, those who look like demi-gods, rarely excel at writing, even if they are often smart and competent. Great writing requires a level of introspection that it's hard to achieve without a stark contradiction between your inner and outer world.
>Carson McCullers
Susanna Clarke
Elena Ferrante
Agatha Christie is good. I don't think Ive read something good from another c**t.
Does full metal alchemist count ?
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Sci-fi & Fantasy:
Wen Spencer
Louis Bujold McMaster.
Leslie Marmon Silko "Almanac of the Dead"
Gayl Jones "Mosquito"
Carolyn Chute "The Beans of Egypt, Maine" and others
Iris Murdoch
The Faded Sun books are really good. The Sex scene with the main villain and his underage harem was super hot.