Great novels by women

Widow Barnaby, by Frances Trollope.

Ridicules the overbearing, "I-get-more-attractive-as-I-age" titular character, which in modernity we have more of than ever.

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Listen to this speech by a character near the end of his story. (warning it's a bit of a spoiler for the novel and movie).

This is from the Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.

Before there was red pill this was the most red pill passage ever written.

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(03-10-2016 03:29 AM)puckerman Wrote:  Read The Giver by Lois Lowry. It's an excellent reflection of a dystopia. Ignore the movie, as it was a hatchet job.

Since half the posts here are about Ayn Rand, I feel compelled to point out that "The Giver" bears a striking similarity to Rand's novella "Anthem", albeit friendlier to a younger audience. (Lowry denies having read it.) It's a much easier introduction to Rand than her more famous full-length works.

("Anthem" also served as the inspiration for the album "2112" from the rock band Rush.)

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(03-09-2016 12:18 PM)da_zeb Wrote:  I can't for the life of me why people believe Ayn Rand is a great writer. You may like her ideology but her writing is still shit, as Whittaker Chambers' take-down of Atlas Shrugged made clear.

Must have been her good looks.

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Ann Coulter's new book In Trump we Trust or Adios America

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(03-07-2016 03:55 PM)Hannibal Wrote:  

Betty Crocker's not even a real person. "She" was a persona invented by General Mills over 100 years ago.

Even men pretending to be female authors are better than female authors.



But to answer OP. I think the Fountainhead by Rand was great, better, Atlas Shrugged.

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(03-11-2016 08:13 AM)PartManPartMonkey Wrote:  Frankenstein. Very much a classic that has withstood the test of time.

*2 I know you're banned but Frankenstein was a very good book. The first science fiction book ever written.

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(06-01-2017 06:23 PM)jspill Wrote:  Ann Coulter's new book In Trump we Trust or Adios America

Haven't read any of her books, but since I find myself agreeing with almost everything she says lately, you're probably right.

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I just read "Death Comes for the ArchBishop" by Willa Cather. Amazing imagery of the Southwest as well as pleasantly spiritual and respectful of the masculine realities of the culture. I liked it so much I will probably get another one of her works, despite my commitment to avoid female written novels.

Reading more about Willa Cather's background though I can see why: she basically self educated herself having grownup on a Homestead, then was discovered and hired out of the rural Midwest to become an author by NYC agents back in the early 20th century.

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Slightly off topic because they're not novels, but I enjoyed reading Flannery O'Connor stories in high school. Satirical and ironic, usually taking place in the South. "Good Country People" stands out, but I haven't read them in awhile so I don't know if my adult self would agree.

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