More on boy books

[electricland]

I take it back. The gender divide in reading continues into adulthood. Well, according to one limited sample, anyway. I dunno. Is this broadly applicable? What's the last book you read? And are you male or female?

Here is an annoyingly breezy Telegraph article that attempts to Explain It All.

Playboy once published an Ursula K. Le Guin short story under the name "U.K. Le Guin" -- something about their readers being intimidated or nervous or bored by female writers. I mocked when I learned this, but it sounds like they were onto something.

Comments

[lietya.livejournal.com]

At this point, I'd even believe it if you told me Weis was a man named Margaret.

That sounds like a good policy. In fact, though I haven't been doing it consciously, I've been doing something similar - I keep picking up books with their own logos and muttering "ick" and putting them back down. :)

[nellisir.livejournal.com]

The first Dragonlance trilogy is worth reading; after that, it depends on how much you get into it. There is a thread of "major" trilogies & books that chronicle the significant changes to the world, then there's a TON of books about bit characters, etc, etc.

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Eek. Thanks. :) I think I'll try the first 3-4, and see how I feel about it after that....