Well, I read. And, I don’t read only women authors.
Maybe this is why dudes are incels? This little culture klatch of women talking to women?
Just looking out for the bros.
So this thread can stay about women talking about female authors.
I will say it.
This has become an anti dude thread.
All good, We boys are just dumb enough to not read enough, to post. So this has become a chick thread.
I read a few hours a day - every day. I just dont see the point in telling everyone what I’m reading… its not being read for entertainment purposes.
I wouldn’t equate reading with intelligence, though.
As an unapologetically pro-male poster, I really don’t see that this is an anti male thread. 
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Nor I. I only list books I’ve loved or feel a need to discuss (that depressing-as-fuck Anthony Dorr that broke my heart), but I do enjoy reading others’ lists and will pick up recommendations here. A couple of the posters seem to have tastes similar to mine (@QuadQueen and @Polar-Bear come to mind). I read boy and girl books and always have. I like to know what everyone is thinking.
@The_Myth feeling a special hankerin’ to stir shit this morning? Were you specifically looking for the one thread in OT with no conflict? If so, well done!
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Do you mean my thoughts of his list?
When I Say No I Feel Guilty is great! I read it after @Andrewgen_Receptors recommended it to me.
I read No More Mr. Nice Guy twice, with the first time way back in the late 2000s. I was a phone client of Dr. Glover’s for six weeks if I recall the time correctly.
Rational Male is highly informative, though I am not fond of its author.
If I have it right, Heartiste’s (aka Roissy) book is a collection of his blog posts. I read Heartiste’s blog posts way back and reread some in the past few year. I strongly recommend Roissy’s review of the film Blue Valentine and his review of F. Roger Devlin’s Sexual Utopia in Power, my all-time favorite men’s book, one I’ve recommended so many times that people around me are probably sick of hearing about or my quotes from it, including my wife. A former female co-worker recently started reading SUIP with my recommendation. I suspect most here would dislike it.
The Manipulated Man. Again, highly informative, with information men these days need to be aware of.
I read part of 48 Laws of Power way, way back in the early or mid 2000s. I thought, “this isn’t for me”. BUT, reflecting back on what I did read, for today’s economic, social, and sexual environment, I think it’s very useful. Unironically, it was recommended by a narcissist and shyster.
Here’s a quote from the aforementioned SUIP which is I feel is congruent with the content in 48 Laws:
“Like inflation, sexual “liberation” turns the marketplace morally upside-down by actively punishing the virtuous and rewarding the vicious. Young people are gradually figuring this out for themselves through painful experience, and if traditionalists have nothing better to offer them than repetition of their grandparents’ advice suited to a vanished order, they will lose whatever tatters of authority they yet retain.”
Profound words I should have been aware of at about like… fifteen years old, especially where and when I grew up.
Too bad SUIP and 48 Laws were not around and given to me when I was in high school. I consider SUIP real sexual education, as opposed to the measly three sentences I remember from my own in public school: “No one get pregnant!” and “Use protection!” and “Teenage pregnancy, oh no!”
I don’t think most here would like such books or would wonder why men, especially young men, would be interested in them. But I could be wrong.
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Right. I’ve even enjoyed reading from people who I’m not fond of or whose views and ideas I oppose simply because they are revealing and are in some cases correct.
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Hooray, I’m a chick!
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No more speeding tickets for you!
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Yeah, not sure how this thread went off the rails. I post mostly military/spy/ assassin/ mysteries. Maybe I am the dude in the book club?
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These degenerate idiots will find out the hard way
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I have been on a Guelzo kick. Though I do not find he treats Meade well, I think he is one of the premier historians in the States. I have a few Victor Davis Hanson works I need to get through as well. The Second World Wars (Hanson) was very good. But it sent me down a Stalin rabbit hole for about a year.
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My first thought was maybe you just browsed this thread and that was your honest impression. On reflection, however…
Looking back on the last 30 books recommended:
@QuadQueen mentioned (as opposed to recommended, but let’s not get into semantics) 24 books by female authors in a single comment
@howie424 recommended books by male authors
@Njord recommended a book by a male author
@Brant_Drake recommended a book by a male author
@Chris_Shugart recommended books by a male author
@The_Myth recommended TWO male authors - wait, that’s YOU!
I even posted that I’d bought the book by the male author YOU recommended.
Apart from QQ, the 5 most recent posters, including yourself, were all men recommending books written by men.
How have you managed to arrive at the conclusion that this is an “anti-dude” thread?
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And for the record, I do read books by male authors too. I only listed the books that were in the 4-5 star rating realm and this time, no male authors made the cut. I’m also not going to change the types of books I read to even up my author gender balance. I read the types of books that I enjoy - regardless of if they’re written by a man or woman.
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So good, best book I read last year.
Last month+
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (4.5)
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles (didn’t rate this, quite good though)
Run by Ann Patchett (4)
The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway (4.5)
Dr. No by Percival Everett (3)
2 Vampire Smut books that were fucking terrible
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie (4.5)
Pride and Prejudice by Austen (4.25 woo more granular rating system)
Herland by CP Gilman (3.5)
Remembering Peasants by Patrick Joyce (3.75)
Currently getting through LatinoLand which has been excellent so far.
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I have this on my Kindle. Is it as good as A Gentleman in Moscow? I found that to be quite good.
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I have not read that but I will take that as a suggestion, so thank you haha
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Not really. Just an effort to invite the thread participants to reflect on their reading habits.
Which was that? I didn’t see a review.
Typically people that read books I recommend are appreciative. I have a pretty good track record.
Do you think that might be a you thing?
Really just a ham fisted attempt to invite everyone to reflect on their reading habits. And yes, there is definitely a chick vibe to the thread.
Honestly, I’m pretty sure I’ve only ever (intentionally) read two female authors. Laura Ingalls Wilder, and her book set will always remain amongst my favorites, and Karen Traviss who has a badass Clone Commando trilogy. Nothing against female authors, but a woman didn’t write The Count of Monte Cristo.
Amen!!!
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