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I don't have to like or identify with characters to like a book (Humbert Humbert, anyone?), but I care if author gets it right, including characters of the opposite sex. I read two excellent books by men recently which are cases in point. Wish Her Safe at Home is told in the first person by a female character and I thought Stephen Benatar got her perfectly. Trollope's Phineas Finn has a male protagonist and several important male characters, but it's his women who are by far the most interesting; the men overall are two-dimensional in character.
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