https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/63149/1/why-dont-straight-men-read-novels-fiction-masculinity-influencers-sigma
!straggots Explain yourselves
TLDR: it's because there is a way higher expectation to be financially successful and to not spend time on "useless" things placed on men because of course there is.
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Straight men read novels. Just not the goyslop effeminate chickfluencer woke stuff that most lib-pilled critics and worse, redditors of today call good.
For example, I wouldn't read any of the above mentioned shit. The tropes are so fricking
.. fricking podcaster and truecrimeshit, big bad American billionaires and woman pirate
From professional reviewers
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/heres-a-dozen-books-from-2023-you-should-read-critics-say
Everything is copied verbatim from the site
1st book - The main character is a newlywed, a young wife who is pulled into this group of women
2nd book - This is set in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, around 1925, in a historically immigrant Jewish neighborhood and African American. And I'll stop there. It's amazing.
3rd, 4th, book - doesn't say anything why it's great
5th book by David Grann - Nonfiction but actually good
6th book - It tells that kind of familiar story about breaking out of a repressive childhood context into a wider world. In her case, she grew up in a strict Rastafarian household. She's a lovely writer. She's a poet. And her nature descriptions of Jamaica, along with everything else, are really stunning.
Kill me
7th - It is about a couple in 1848… They are an enslaved couple…
Holy frick, guys, have I mentioned how much I love black people?
8th book - Nonfiction
9th book - Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott
HAVING SAID ALL OF THIS, I WILL CONCEDE THAT THESE ARE STILL BETTER THAN THE HOMOSEXUAL SHIT THE CONSERVATIVE LEANING "ALPHA SIGMA CHAD MALES" READ WHICH ARE 100% BULLSHIT SELF-HELP BOOKS WRITTEN BY GRIFTERS
!chuds !bookworms I FRICKING HATE BOTH SIDES
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I looked at a good reads novel challenge thing and every single story was about BIPOCs or some minority community. Boring as shit sounding stuff
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Goodreads is the festering place of the stereotypical white lib woman who reads fanfics and shitty NPR books. That said, there's actually a great underground reading community you can find there, which can find for books that are not part of the common Canon, longer than 300 pages, or originally written in a non-English language
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Where's it at, because it seems to be hiding darn well.
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Check out the reviews on authors with books published by NYRB (Manchette, Vladimir Sorokin, John Williams, Marcel Proust), mostly forgotten modernist novelists such as John dos Passos and Joseph Roth, and on poetry collections that don't explicitly cater to women (T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound's stuff for example) as a starting point. The users who give those things great reviews are almost always litpilled and readmaxx for four hours plus a day
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The progenitor /lit/ has always started trying to force a goodreads group. I joined a while back, but it always dies off. Proust 100% sounds like one of their failed memes.
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LMAO
More reason to read solely books that are at least 50 years+ with a few exceptions (there are some 21st century literary
as well)
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ngl...these books sound like they are exactly for the type of foids who say they hate how bland/shallow/msygonistic all the wish-fulfillment Lifetime-movie airport store romance/drama novels that women crave...yet, at the same time, will still secretly crave the same thing if it was packaged into a more progressive/empowering/"artistic" form...
...at least the airport-book loving ladies aren't ashamed to read that sort of slop lol !foidmoment
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Modern society doesn't offer a good enough setting to create novels with SOVL and insight on the human condition. It's mountains amounts of shitty fantasy, shitty sci-fi, x-punk, and dystopian shit.
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A good, classical novel is unironically much better in terms of getting good lessons and morals than any "self-help" nonsense. Either that or ancient writers, Lobstercels
for instance should do themselves a favor and just read Marcus Aurelius or Seneca instead of "12 rules to wash your peepee and clean your room".
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I remember getting criticized for only reading classics in high school because "they don't cover modern issues" when in reality it doesn't really matter if something covers modern issues or not, certain stories are timeless and talk about things that've been happening since your grandpa was pooping in bushes and raping the other tribe's women.
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MY grandpa shat in a bathroom and r*ped his own tribes women like a civilized man
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Blood Meridian is a novel and I'm reading it.
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Nice man, its cool to read, I liek science fiction, cyberpunk, and especially post apocalypse.
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1st book: " And without being heavy-handed, McDermott manages to make a connection between the insistent charity of these women and early American intervention in Vietnam."
Sorting out the food pantry is bombing reds?
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Birnam Wood is good actually, intricately plotted tragedy !bookworms
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Is it actually or are you frickin with me? Is it up its own butt?
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I mean it's self-absorbed and obnoxiously lib-coded (there aren't like narrator politics
but she's kiwi so it can't be helped), but it's also a good novel 
on literary terms. If it were a play in town I would 
go see it.
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I hate books like that, it's like they're written for pseuds
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Yeah "intricately plotted tragedy" is a lit-fic dogwhistle
which isn't to everyone's taste, but that's not a bad thing
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All them words won't bring your pa back.
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What do they think, women made Tom Clancy famous???
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Sanderson too
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More like hysterical.
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The straightest men only read the bible
and brando sando.
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I've literally never heard of any of these books. Don't most male fantasy readers these days just read the witcher books and Joe Abercrombie's First Law?
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