lookingfordata2020

lookingfordata2020 t1_j4rqadr wrote

Reply to Why don’t I, as a woman, like books with female protagonists? by out_cyder

Yeah this used to be then I realized in a trans manđź’€ On a more serious note though, you say you read thrillers and gore, I don't read this genre but I would ask myself these questions:

  1. Are there substantial women characters in your novels in the first place? Or are they reduced to stereotypes and/or trauma?
  2. How are the women characters usually written?
  3. How are the men characters usually written?
  4. Are there traits, or maybe one particular one, in the men characters that aren't in the women characters or vice versa?
  5. How are the woman characters treated? For example is there simply to get murdered? If so, it would be hard to relate to her because her entire being is reduced to the murder.
  6. How do the protagonist think of women around them? For example in the book Maurice, the titular character hates women.

I don't know what the answers are because I don't read this genre! Maybe you just have a personality that isn't typically assigned to women in the genre, you read. You didn't ask but the most relatable woman character to me is Jo March in Little Women.

Edit: It might also be worth examining if you relate to women and womanhood in real life.

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lookingfordata2020 t1_j2eat3y wrote

Reply to comment by North_Yam_6423 in Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness", fourth novel of the Hainish Cycle. by i-the-muso-1968

It's very different from Dune, I think. I couldn't really get into Dune but I'm a massive fan of the Hainish cycle (they don't have to be read in order, and aren't a series as much as they are books set in the same universe). I found Dune to be a bit mechanical whereas I like the humanness of the Hainish Cycle.

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lookingfordata2020 t1_j0i15iu wrote

Reply to Which quote from a novel compelled you to read that entire novel? by vedant-mate

Unfortunately typical but: "The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation”. (The Secret History by Donna Tartt)

"Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don't know." (The Stranger by Albert Camus)

And this isn't strictly a first line but is the first line in the beginning of chapter one (there's one page before it that I skipped lol): "All of this happened more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true." (Slaughterhouse-V by Kurt Vonnegut)

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