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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
How many female authors have you actually read?
You don't like romance and you don't like to read about screwing, OK, I can understand that. But assuming that just because a woman is writing, those two elements will be present... that's just not true.
I can give you some examples of books written by women where there is no or very little romance. Margaret Atwood comes to mind. As for the screwing, that's very easy. Anything written before the 20th century, and much of what was written in the first half of the 20th, whether written by men or women, has absolutely no screwing at all.
Can't talk about the action scenes though, as I am not that interested in them myself.
Well yes, the question annoyed me, but it doesn't mean that you were wrong to ask. What annoys me, really, is the assumptions people make about men and women (such as the one I replied to above). I'm sorry you felt attacked, and it's certainly not personal. The whole subject of men and women tends to switch me into an aggressive mode.  |
The genres I like to read are generally fantasy, and science fiction, and thriller/suspense.
I've tried to read several women authors, when it comes to action, the writing doesn't cut it, it's boring...and it doesn't have to be blood and guts, it just has to make sense, 90% of the time, it doesn't, when it comes to fantasy, it seems there has to be a buff sex object (not just a romantic interest, Jackqulyn Carey, Kelley Armstrong), the same goes for thriller/suspense (Sandra Brown, Kay Hooper, Sue Grafton) And anything written before the 20th century I don't read anyway, male or female, I find it very very boring. And in science-fiction, it's just not hard enough science for me, and there always seems to be a love interested forced in there. And it feels forced too.
And to assume what it will be based on my reading experience and 90% of the women authors I've read, yeah, I think I have EVERY right to make the assumption.