I haven't read Cat's Eye in years. Maybe it's time to dig it out again.
We die horribly and painfully, you go to hell and I spend eternity in the arms of baby Jesus.
Gunn ,'Not Fade Away'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Nov 01, 2007 5:42:10 pm PDT #4243 of 28239
Because books.
hippocampus - Nov 02, 2007 3:08:38 am PDT #4244 of 28239
not your mom's socks.
erikaj - second Margaret Atwood & depending on your group's disposition, add either Handmaid's Tale or The Blind Assasin
There is a utopian called Herland, I think - not sure if it's been mentioned?
And Mary Wollstonecraft, George Elliot, and (arguably-not so arguably) Jane Austen, if you're headed in that direction.
Liese - speaking of female cyberpunk characters that don't come from traumatic backgrounds - America Shaftoe (Cryptonomicron, Y.T and Juanita Marquez (both Snowcrash), and Miranda (Diamond Age).
Sue - Nov 02, 2007 3:16:11 am PDT #4245 of 28239
hip deep in pie
I'll suggest The Company Parade by Storm Jameson, which is a novel set between the wars in Britain. The main Character is a woman who leaves her husband and child in the country to come to London to become a writer. It's part of a trilogy, and I really became engrossed in that world.
Also, totally on the other end of the spectrum is The Passion According to GH, by Clarice Lispector. Lispector was a Brazilian writer in the 1960's and 70's. The plot of this novel is "woman kills a cockroach". It's been described as what Kafka would have written if he was a woman.
hippocampus - Nov 02, 2007 3:52:57 am PDT #4246 of 28239
not your mom's socks.
Clarice Lispector
she's amazing.
Toddson - Nov 02, 2007 3:53:44 am PDT #4247 of 28239
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" and/or "Three Guineas"?
Emily - Nov 02, 2007 6:15:40 am PDT #4248 of 28239
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Or Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons, [link] which is slighter, but a good read.
Oh, man. That book, along with Bastard Out of Carolina and The Book of Ruth, made me wary of "Southern women's fiction" as a genre for years.
If you're willing to deal with a bit of preachiness, there's Tepper's Gate to Women's Country or Gibbon's Decline and Fall. The gender-role stuff is huge and explicit and a bit biased (women=creative force for good, men=you can imagine), but I found them interesting.
Hayden - Nov 02, 2007 6:58:30 am PDT #4249 of 28239
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I recommend Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, or Grace Paley's The Little Disturbances of Man (which is a short story collection)
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2007 7:54:57 am PDT #4250 of 28239
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If you're willing to deal with a lot of preachiness, try Tepper's The Fresco. I think she takes the feminism and twists it into something ugly, but it might be good fodder for some heated discussion.
Typo Boy - Nov 02, 2007 7:59:38 am PDT #4251 of 28239
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
...try Tepper's The Fresco. I think she takes the feminism and twists it into something ugly, but it might be good fodder for some heated discussion.
I think she does that a lot.
Emily - Nov 02, 2007 9:01:32 am PDT #4252 of 28239
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
It's more unusual for Tepper when one of her books doesn't make someone feel that way, in fact.