>If you don’t have any books by female authors on your bookshelf you are not well read
Do you agree or disagree with this growing sentiment?

It’s very true. Even if you were a professor specialising in the primary texts of medieval scholasticism, you’d still probably have Teresa of Avila somewhere

>>24549355
OP is not posting in good faith, he's here to spread /pol/ garbage.

>>24549344 (OP)
Who cares?

Several years ago I got a three-day ban for this exact shitpost. Where does the time go?

>>24549344 (OP)
I have one.
I used to have two.

>>24549344 (OP)
i pretty much disregard anything written by women, there's too many books in the world to waste time

>>24549344 (OP)
Let's see. I have 13 female authors.

>>24549344 (OP)
>buy a bunch of romance slop
>put it on my shelf
>never touch it again
>I am now well read

>>24549344 (OP)
What do I think?

I think that dropping the hyphen in this context creates ambiguity (however slight) and gains nothing.

>>24549344 (OP)
I have fucking Frankenstein on my bookshelf, love that book.

>>24549355
This, basically. You're one Sei Shonagon reference away from being blown out in a way you don't understand
>growing sentiment
>he wants the Garrick cut of Hamlet to be normalised
kek

You're stuck inside an episode of television that has been watched many times before. Read whatever you want.

>>24549344 (OP)
i have ~50 books not including picture books and technical manuals and 5 are by wmyn

Only female author I ever liked was Evelyn Waugh. All the rest were pure fucking cancer.

>>24549573
Same, only woman book so far worth keeping a copy of

Do we count books by trans women?
If we do, I have one.

>>24549573
>>24549665
Frankenstein is one of the few books by a female author that I enjoyed reading. Which makes me suspect that her husband really wrote it.

>>24549666
cope

>>24549344 (OP)
Yes and here's my bookshelf with books by female authors, the most tumblresque monster porn you could imagine. High art, praised by academia. MM yes

>>24549667
Mary Shelly was a freaky bitch, she 100% wrote it.

Margaret Atwell is pretty good, too. Really enjoyed Oryx and Crate.

Remember, everything is on a bell curve, there's a few individuals in the upper tail end.

I have L. F. Céline here. Love her.

>>24549913
>Oryx and Crake
This was great and should be recommended here more. Jimmy is /literallyme/ material and every 4chan user should be able to relate to the experience he and Crake have of going on the internet, getting baked, watching gore videos, playing weird vidya and eventually stumbling onto actual CP

>>24549913
>>24549935
>google it
>sci-fi
Uhhh yeah… sure… real good literature you got there.

>>24549942
It’s more post-apoc than sci-fi but yeah dismiss it out of hand if that makes you feel like a big boy

If I wanted to talk good sci fi written by women I would have mentioned Le Guin

>>24549951
>good sci-fi
Oxymoron

If you read to satisfy any kind of criteria aside from learning or enjoyment, you're a pseud. The only thing that matters is the reading.

>>24549953
wow anon I’m really impressed with your mature taste and intelligence, unfortunately I suspect you of being a nigger so I’m going to have to ask you to post your hand, or gnarled nigger claw as it were

>>24549573
You curse like a Redditor

>>24549667
Percy had his own unique way of writing and Mary kept pumping out stories with a similar style years after he died.
They just kept pushing the rumour Percy wrote it because they thought teenagers can't write that well

>>24549344 (OP)
I don't care honestly I think deciding to read someone because they are a vagina haver is exactly as narrow minded as the opposite. That said several of my favourite authors are women.

>>24549344 (OP)
Imagine actively avoiding Yourcenar if you can read french, or Willa Cather or Woolf if you can read english...
Better not to have learned to read at all if that's you.

>>24549344 (OP)
A male reader needs a female writer like a bicycle needs a fish

>>24549373
this. why be well read? it's better to read few things that are good.

>>24549344 (OP)
Shouldn't you just read whatever draws you in? So far no female author managed to capture my attention.

>>24549344 (OP)
I started reading books by women.
I have a few books written by women in my bookshelf and more on my phone.
I read mostly non fiction btw because I'm smarter and baseder.

>>24549344 (OP)
But I have ayn rand, she's like a woman

why should i care? almost nobody comes to my place anyways and the people i have come around here dont care about vain shit like that

>>24549344 (OP)
I need to prune out a few offending female authors from my book shelves.
Paglia can stay.

>>24552415
Yourcenar is ugly and lesbian enough to be allowed to stay, but she is not that great

>>24552241
Non-fiction is for retards, unless you mean philosophy, which I doubt.

I have:
George Eliot
Shirley Jackson
Leonora Carrington
Amparo Davila
Flannery O'Connor
Virginia Woolf
Qiu Miaojin
Sigrid Undset
Mary Shelley
Fernanda Melchor
Tatyana Tolstaya
Shikibu Murasaki
Agota Kristof
Elizabeth von Armin
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë

But I have one book by each of them and I have 400 something books, so not really a big % of my library.

>>24550093
You suck dick like a sailor.

>>24552441
>Non-fiction is for retards
No, real knowledge is not for retards.
Now go back to your goyslop, cattle.

>>24552508
Once you grow up you’ll be able to understand art, don’t worry about it.

>>24552528
Nothing in my post implied I don't understand art.
You're projecting, you're also low iq and have no arguments, only ad hominem. You're dumb, dishonest and immoral, which is not surprising since you read only fiction and know no truth.

>>24549920
I wonder what that girl looked like. Based on her writing, she must've been like a goth girl. Wish I could find a girl like Celine

If you haven't read >80% of the books on your shelves then you're not well read. I don't care how many books you own, pseud.

>>24552441
How do learn about any subject without engaging with non-fiction? I can't imagine purposefully avoiding all historical information out of a pretentious desire to appear sophisticated on 4chan.

>>24552826
I've read most of the books on my shelves but not the books in boxes

I learned today that there have been some women who have written books too and I decided to give it a try.

And to my surprise, I actually liked it!

The simpler language that women use makes the reading experience much more enjoyable and I no longer have a headache after I’m done devouring the books

>>24549344 (OP)
Agreed in the sense that you need to experience something before you can pass judgement on it.

Women books are not worth reading, they're so mundane and emty in terms of deep comprehension about the fabric of human relations that you only ought reading w-shit if you are completely away from any serious discussions.

>muh serious discussions
>muh deep comprehension
>reads 4chan posts

>>24549344 (OP)
I mean, if you don't have a single one, then I'd think you may be selecting against female writers for some reason.

>>24555085
>for some reason.

>>24555253
yes

I can only identify with other white males