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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
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??
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like i said theres exceptions.
but not anne rice. shes very very bad. every man in her book when is drinking starting to kiss another mans, all the time (read vampire lestat and few other). another example of moronic clueless writings of her was a man chasing by wolfpack during blizzard, the man (on the horse) turned back, draw his faithful black powder rifle and shoot one of the wolves, then he falls, rolled, draws another faithful BLACK POWDER rifle and shoot another wolf.. after that i've throw with my faithful arm vampire lestat against the wall in the train room (i was in trave then) and never again tried to read anne rice again.
guess you know (everyone know excepr anne r.) how black powder rifle works... small puff and bye bye to shooting.
ed.: and i agree with you with this diary stylish 18th century writing style, i understand it must be done this way, it's just was unbeareable for me at the time i was reading it, many years ago ;)