tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-657368378863560055.post8510148044015575856..comments2024-03-23T09:09:59.386-04:00Comments on ANNIE AND AUNT: The male equivalent of YA chick lit?Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10668869030805539811noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-657368378863560055.post-24991590120261759682012-05-12T22:29:17.087-04:002012-05-12T22:29:17.087-04:00I was just wondering about the guy version of chic...I was just wondering about the guy version of chick lit question. Years ago we all read similar stuff: LOTR, Asimov, etc., and overlaps. But then, yeah... one guy friend refers to Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion as his favorite fantasy novel; I found it lacking in some kind of heart or something. The boys used to mob Waldenbooks for the next David Eddings release. Some guys LOVE Zelazny, yes, the Amber books! Another guy just gushed over Mythago Wood, which I found borderline sociopathic. <br /> I haven't read them, but I suspect that the Magic: the Gathering game companion novels are more guy lit than otherwise, and the R.A. Salvatore novels as well. Yet so many men have written books with lots of heart: Tad Williams, Guy Gavriel Kay, for example. I have been reading more female authors in recent years. Am I getting older or are the offerings becoming more separate and different?<br /> I've just started a series that I suspect will be guy lit fantasy. If you like such things the first one is called Raingun, and they're by John Blackport.<br /> I liked Ender's Game and some other OSC, but his boorish IRL behavior ruins his work for me now. I do highly recommend the Uplift War books by David Brin, and probably any of his other work. The Jhereg books by Brust are super fun, and come to think of it pretty probably guy lit! <br /> There are so many good books out there that I had better stop before I get completely off topic. thanks.lizziewriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04458626487612836751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-657368378863560055.post-72920576136808774892011-03-22T05:08:15.290-04:002011-03-22T05:08:15.290-04:00I was a very poor reader until I hit 16 and discov...I was a very poor reader until I hit 16 and discovered 20th Century american lit. Up until that time, however, I was a big Stephen King fan; Tolkein came next. Post discovery, I couldn't get enough of Kurt Vonnegut (Breakfast of Champions, Cat Cradle), JD Salinger, EL Doctorow or John Irving (Prayer for Owen Meaney, then Cider House Rules). For some reason I also remember being turned on to AS Byatt (not so much Possession, but rather the trilogy that starts with The Virgin in The Garden).-f.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11235331816099473350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-657368378863560055.post-49246824413386937122011-03-21T21:58:10.706-04:002011-03-21T21:58:10.706-04:00I actually read Ender's Game for the first tim...I actually read Ender's Game for the first time a couple of years ago, and it didn't really feel dated to me. I'd bet a large proportion of nerdish boy teenagers are still reading it. <br /><br />Dune by Frank Herbert was my thing. It had the interesting yet plausible alternate world thing that works so well for me with sci-fi, with easily-noticeable thematic gestures toward contemporary issues like resource shortages and holy war. Plus, knife fighting!Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-657368378863560055.post-56956173490662220012011-03-21T21:56:07.838-04:002011-03-21T21:56:07.838-04:00I know exactly what my brother read, because as in...I know exactly what my brother read, because as in all things I wanted to do what he did, and grabbed them off the shelf: fantasy novels. The ones I got into were the "Belgariad" and "Malloreon" series(es?) by David Eddings, which had a lot of prominent badass girl characters. He liked Roger Zelazny's books (9 Princes in Amber etc) and a series about a character named Camber, who I think was a deryni, though I can't recall the name of the author; Katherine something. Plus Tolkien and his followers - the Shannara books, Dragonlance, and on and on. <br /><br />My brother is now an English professor at Berkeley, btw.Sarah Landrethnoreply@blogger.com