> crime fiction
> YA
> main character is a woman
> name - a novel
> book's cover only features praises by literally whos
> from the author of 20+ previous novels
crime fiction
Jaxon Adams
Jackson Flores
>praise on the cover calls it "inspirational"
Levi Bell
>pulitzer prize
Jordan Carter
>part of a series
Brandon Martinez
>comparison to Odyssey, Hamlet or Faust
Mason Hughes
>Trying this hard to fit in.
how embarrassing.
Jace Rivera
>> main character is a woman
I understand all the others, but what does this do to earn the highly coveted prize of "bad by definition"?
Or are you just being an autistic sperg who broke out of containment on /r9k/?
Jose Morales
>Or are you just being an autistic sperg
I can't speak for all people, so this may be the case, but there are legitimate problems with the main character being a woman.
Women's lives are inherently different from men's lives. Women do not face all the same struggles that men face, or in the same way, and women largely have to try much harder then men to ruin their lives. A woman can easily find men who are willing to help her, because she can tempt them with sexual favors and she doesn't have to deliver (at least in polite societies), whereas men are expected to work for what they acquire.
It is true that with the technological revolution we are facing, men are becoming more and more woman like, and stories of fantastic worlds with amazonian woman warriors are less preposterous, simply because the idea of being a warrior is now so outstandingly distant from modernity's memory.
A novel about a woman or even written by a woman is not inherently bad, but if it tries to treat women the same as men, it is probably written by a naive egalitarian, and if the author doesn't understand people, well enough to know their differences he or she will likely make other mistakes as well.
Jason White
These other mistakes will likely entail straw-manned perspectives of other people trying to make them seem irrationally absurd in the face of a purist rationalist protagonist, but a good author should realize that most people atleast feel like they have good reasons for their motivations, and will be more likely to create a whole range of characters lovingly, each one believable and likable to real life readers who identify with them.
Liberals say they stand for truth and justice, and believe they have exclusive right to it. As such they (quite naturally) despise stupid conservatives who can't see their way. Conservatives are more likely to see the painful truth of the world and understand that their enemies aren't necessarily evil but that a definitive solution for dealing with their enemies must be approached.
Now this whole post might make me seem sexist, so I'll go ahead and mention my favorite book is "We Need to talk about Kevin" because the main character is very leftist liberal woman with inherent hypocrisies that she looks at. I don't think the author is a conservative mocking liberals. I think she is a liberal who is able to look at her self honestly, and it shows.
Daniel Thomas
Read Madame Bovary and speak later.