Comments on: Historical Fiction About the American Frontier

By: emiliano

emiliano — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:41:56 +0000

Going on with the subject of what is women best fiction writting I have seen that for the last century they are experts with “thriller books”, and I can mention several excelent women writers as:

Agatha Christie, P.D. James, Ellis Peters, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, Margaret Millar, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Linda Barnes, Donna Leon,…..and much more.
Only mentioning english writers, but there are several more in other lenguages.
From the above mentioned, I have readed quite a lot of novels (in spanish), and from Ag.Christie/P.D. James in english that is really a good exercise to us, students.

Men are less subtle or shrewd to write about this matter, I think, as in fact there are few men writers in this kind of novels.

I think this a good subjet to talk about, but my english is not good enough to do it and always talk about literature in my own speech where I feel myself easy talking such important matter.

Thanks Lucy, tell us some more interesting books to read from time to time, as I think this is one of the best ways to improve our litle knowledge.
By the way, have you write some fiction?, tell us please.

One of your best fans, emiliano

By: Elisângelo

Elisângelo — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:10:05 +0000

hey! this side of the stories that emiliano just pointed out is very interesting. I never stopped in my life before if those bad books I’ve read before were written by woman or a man. Next time, when I read another book I’ll make sure to rate the book and pay attention if it was written whether for a woman or man author. By the way, lucy thanks for remind me that books can be more comprehensible after someone has been following eslpod for a while. I remenber my first time reading a book That I had picked up in a public library, My God! For each Phrase I had to stop 9 or 12 times to seek the meanings of the words.

Now I believe that I’ve got a much larger vocabulary than back that time. I love to watch the rachel maddow show, abc world news and nightly news podcasts. It make me feel closer to the success of learnning english, so I can educate my ears to become more friendly to native american speaker speeches.

thanks a lot.

best regards!
preto.

By: emiliano

emiliano — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:00:06 +0000

Thank you Lucy for your recommends that I am sure it should be quite interesting, but I have just a question to ask for and it is the casual even than the three books are written for women, and the principals character of the books are also women.

Do you think women are best character in books than men?, and if so, why?.
Also, do you think women characters are more best written for a woman writer than a man writer?.

As you see, being interested in the books that in fact I would like to read and I am looking for them in Amazon, I was just a little surprised by the coincidence, three and three, quite interesting your recommends.

To readers of the blog I would like also to ask them (women and men) if they like more male writers or female?. Or it doesn’t matter at all?.
Talking about me it is indifferent the genere of the author but may be some kind of themes are better written by women and other by men and really I don’t know the
reason.
But what is clear to me very often is that women characters in a novel or film, in my opinion, are always more interesting and complex than men, as we men use to be flat in fiction and real life.
That’s may be the reason why we need you women so much………to complicate and amuse our lifes.

By: marina

marina — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:18:42 +0000

Thanks Lucy,
I was just looking for an interesting book to read. My last one was really awful. It was so boring that I couldn’t read more than two pages without falling sleep. Anyway, I hope to find these books easily at the library or at the book store.
Thanks again,
Marina