VividBed414 t1_jcg5vsp wrote on March 16, 2023 at 4:25 PM

Haha yes! I was not male and as such not clever enough to get the book in question apparently. Needless to say that person is very very single. Fairly sure the author in question wasn't on speaking terms with very many women either...

JohnTaylorson OP t1_jcga1nb wrote on March 16, 2023 at 4:51 PM

Oh man, now I'm super curious about what the book in question might be...?

VividBed414 t1_jcgc2oi wrote on March 16, 2023 at 5:03 PM

I actually went back to my Goodreads to try to find it but I was on a bit of a classic sci-fi bender at the time so the majority fit the bill I'm trying to think of anything more specific about the plot other than how bewildered it left me

JohnTaylorson OP t1_jcgcun2 wrote on March 16, 2023 at 5:08 PM

Super crazy curious now. So this guy thought a perceived gender divide prevented to from 'getting' this classic Sci Fi book?

VividBed414 t1_jch4qm6 wrote on March 16, 2023 at 8:04 PM

The book was brave new world by Aldous Huxley. I just didn't enjoy it. It just wasn't for me. I had read A Handmaid's tale, 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and I preferred those.

AtLeastThisIsntImgur t1_jcizk05 wrote on March 17, 2023 at 4:15 AM

If someone told me 'only men can understand BNW' I would just assume they are a misogynist