More on boy books
Jun. 1st, 2005 01:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electriclandI 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.
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.
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Date: 2005-06-01 10:04 pm (UTC)Trying again:
I'm male and I'm currently reading "Dr. Adder" by K. W. Jeter who I believe to be male (but I could be wrong). Before that the last fiction book I read was probably by Czerneda, who is definitely female.
At one point (over 20 years ago now) I conciously avoided female SF authors, having read too much bad SF by authors with female names. These days I probably have more female than male names on my list of "must buy" authors. Certainly the list includes Czerneda, Bujold and Rowling.
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Date: 2005-06-02 01:41 pm (UTC)