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Originally Posted by druid66
biggest agony for me was frankenstein written by a girl, mary wollstonecraft shelley, that day i;ve decided to never again read books written by girls/women (with few exceptions).
why you ask?
frankenstein: "this poor girl ah oh she is so poor i know shes not guilty but ah oh i can't help her because ah oooh i'm soo afraid to reveal aaahh ohh truth.."
ok, it was not accurate as you may guessed but you get the point :D
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Frankenstein can be understandably obtuse to modern audiences, written as it was in the 19th century as basically a gothic romance and in the "diary format" popular at the time, if I remember it. I liked it. I also loved Dracula, another popular novel written in the same style in the late 1800s.
But you're losing out on a lot of great writing if you're going to cut out the chicks in one fell swoop.
Just off the top of my head, here's some great (modern) books written by humans with vaginas, which shouldn't make a bloody difference (I'll leave out 19th century authors though I'm not sure about all these writers):
The Eight - Katherine Neville
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
Cry to Heaven - Anne Rice (actually, anything Rice does is worth reading, althugh some stuff is a little too romance-novel style...)
The Awakening - Kate Chopin (lots of great short stories too)
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson (also wrote The Lottery and other great short stories)
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (everyone thinks this is a guy, but nope she's a female)
The Tomorrow-Tamer - Margaret Laurence
Gone with the Wind - I don't remember her name but she was a she
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Leguin
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'engle
How can you deprive yourself??
:D