Male Vs Female Authors What do you prefer?
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Male Vs Female Authors What do you prefer?
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I can understand that one Bighuey. I just find that most of the books I read and enjoy are from female authors. For instance, I am reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert right now and I love it so far! I have laughed out loud so many times in the first section alone.Bighuey wrote:It dosent matter to me, male of female. If I like the book, I dont care who writes it.
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Booklover83 wrote:I can understand that one Bighuey. I just find that most of the books I read and enjoy are from female authors. For instance, I am reading Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert right now and I love it so far! I have laughed out loud so many times in the first section alone.Bighuey wrote:It dosent matter to me, male of female. If I like the book, I dont care who writes it.
I suppose most of my favorite authors are male, come to think about it, but I like a lot of female authors too like Edith Wharton, Marjorie Bowen, Leigh Brackett, Andre Norton,Judith Merrill mostly the old classics.
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Couldn't have said it better myself. I think there should be a third option on this poll: Don't Care (as long as they are good)Bighuey wrote:It dosent matter to me, male of female. If I like the book, I dont care who writes it.
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I would be happy to do that but I cannot edit the poll...darn it!ferretbait wrote:Couldn't have said it better myself. I think there should be a third option on this poll: Don't Care (as long as they are good)Bighuey wrote:It dosent matter to me, male of female. If I like the book, I dont care who writes it.
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Many authors are encouraged to conceal their gender by their publisher.patrickt wrote:I actively avoid women authors. It's not easy since so many conceal their gender.
The commercial viability of a novel is still connected to its author’s gender; at least in the publishers view.
It is supposed that initials will deter stigma, broaden the market and offer wider appeal.
However, in the case of P.D. James, A.A. Milne, H.G. Wells, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.B. Priestley, D.H. Lawrence, J.D. Salinger, J.D. Robb, A.C. Crispin, E. Nesbitt, C.S. Lewis, C.J. Cherryh, E.M. Forster, etc, we found out who they were anyway. And for me it didn't matter.
(N.B. Can anyone name the women authors in the above list?)
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That's odd considering it's generally accepted that the vast majority of readers are female!
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