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:marseytrad: authors discussion and recommendation thread :marseyrowling:

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To discuss your favorite and most hated women (male and female) in literature.

I think the only female author book I ever finished was “Pride and Prejudice” (didn’t even read Harry Potter, lmao). But history is full with them, you have authors like Mary Shelley :marseystein:, Margaret Mitchell :marseysouthernbelle7:, Margaret Atwood :marseygilead:, Isabel Allende :marseyflagchile: and so on.

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Margaret Mitchell shits all over every other women writer, and was a total Stacy in real life too.:marseysouthernbelle1:

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Is “Gone with the wind” worth reading? I love the movie and watched it again on HBO Max a few weeks ago, but I heard the book is even more of a :marseysaluteconfederacy: apologia, to the point of featuring the :marseykkk: as the good guys lmao.

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Yes it is and yes it is. It's genuinely well-written and a fascinating glimpse of planter society and the war from a Southern perspective; in that manner the apologia fits neatly into the narrative. Had it been more objective I don't think it would have been realistic; as it stands you can put yourself into their shoes and it's an interesting, if unusual, experience.

Scarlett is an unrepentant whore and life-ruiner and really one of the more interesting female characters I've read in fiction.

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Scarlett is an unrepentant whore and life-ruiner and really one of the more interesting female characters I've read in fiction.

This is what I’ve always loved about the movie. Scarlett is a b-word, but that’s what makes her interesting. I also like Mellie, who despite being “meak” is actually a strong character.

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Mellie was amazing. It always got my goat that a super-chudded War of Northern Aggression book from the 1900s has better and more complex female characters than most contemporary feminist fiction; and even most classic ""feminist"" fiction about women suffering nobly under men. :marseysmug2: Scarlett didn't give up and off herself by the end, she decided to frick Rhett and that she didn't need him in her life. She also drank so much she turned her kids r-slurred.

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