kathleen writes “”In a shocking new revelation, a study released on Sunday disclosed that men read novels by other men, but not novels by women. Commissioned for the ten-year-old Orange Prize for Fiction, an annual British award for female authors, the study has male readers on the defensive, according to Professor Lisa Jardine, a co-author of the survey.”
“The men are annoyed that they have to think about men and women in different categories at all. It strikes them as unnecessary.� she says. “And yet these are the very men who turn out not to have read any novel at all by a woman recently.�
The Orange Prize will be presented later today.”
busted?: http://www.thebookstandard.com/bookstandard/news/author/a rticle_display.jsp%3Fvnu_content_id%3D1000944546+& hl=en
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:1lIkXo9zUsoJ
I think that’s the website that never works for me…
Anyways, when women write books that men want to read, they’ll read them. I know that there are some women who can write good sci-fi, and it gets read by a large number of men.
But yes, Virginia, romance novels usually suck from a man’s POV. They ignore many facts, and drop our suspension of disbelief.
— Ender, Duke_of_URL
Re:busted?
I agree mostly but I also think its a little more than just romance novels (ignore facts? be careful). I’ve read good books by women but do tend to gravitate to men because the focus is liable to be more to my liking.
Oddly enough, a comic writer currently getting high praise for good superhero comics and also some good episodes of Justice League Unlimited is Gail Simone. So the girls can keep up with the boys when they want.
So the girls can keep up with the boys…
Oops, my non-feminist alarm just went off. I happen to think most women want to pave their own
superhighway rather than “keep up with the boys.”
Re: So the girls can keep up with the boys…
Then the entire premise of the article should set off your non-feminist alarm because I know most men want to pave their own ‘superhighway’.
Mmm, facts
Yeah, some men don’t get facts right worth a damn neither. But the violations I’ve seen when attempting romance novels, drive me absolutely bonkers. There are like, only 2 romance novels that were worth the time I put into them (most never made it past a chapter or two).
And I think there’s some serious errors in drawing any conclusions from this survey. They surveyed 50 ‘opinion makers’, probably old white men 🙂
And birdie, if women want to pave their own superhighway, and are basically writing towards women, then why *should* men read them? I’d argue that anyone who writes towards humanity in general, gets read by humanity in general. Those that write to a specific group, tend to get read by that specific group. Maybe what’s being said is that women need to stretch themselves to write to the world, instead of just towards women.
— Ender, Duke_of_URL