Contemporary Female Writers. (2 Viewers)

[Super Dexta]

Margaret Drabble (A.S. Byatt's sister) is also good. Muriel Spark and Joyce Carol Oates are consistently readable.

If you do check out Jeanette Winterson, you only need read 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit', 'The Passion' and maybe 'Written On The Body'. You can skip her recent stuff, it's truly appalling IMHO.

that one about lighthouses is pretty good. i find her very hit and miss though - i looooooove The Passion but nothing else really gets me going. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is too funny. funny is boring.

 

[Bellatrix]

funny is boring.

*begs to differ

 

[Super Dexta]

*begs to differ

i know it sounds kind of odd to say that, but i think she does serious so well that i wish she'd just stick to it, and not make me laugh as well.

 

[Yurn!]

Jilly Cooper

Geri Halliwell

Catherine Trammell

 

[krystal]

not yet mentioned - kate atkinson. Really engaging and funny.

also I read a lot of historical type stuff and antonia fraser and eh...harold pinters wife whos name I now totally forget are fabulous in that genre.

 

[St. Fechin]

that one about lighthouses is pretty good. i find her very hit and miss though - i looooooove The Passion but nothing else really gets me going. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is too funny. funny is boring.

She seems to have lost any concept of quality control. It's all solipsistic nonsense nowadays. When that one about lighthouses came out, there was a parody of it in Private Eye which was absolutely spot-on, I haven't really been able to take her seriously since.

 

[george mcfly]

Jilly Cooper

Geri Halliwell

Catherine Trammell

i read Geri's book before.. i give it the thumbs up

 

[ICUH8N]

Jilly Cooper books are fucking amazing. FACT

I think Polo is my favourite.

 

[Yurn!]

Jilly Cooper books are fucking amazing. FACT

I think Polo is my favourite.

It's gotta be this buttock cupping masterpiece for me. :heart:

 

[ICUH8N]

I quite liked "The Man who made Husbands Jealous" too. She went downhill after "Appassionata" I think.

Is anyone else thoroughly disturbed by my rather extensive knowledge of the Cooper Canon? I certainly am.

 

[oh shit]

i read the secret history one time, i thought it was shite.
am i mental?

 

[Super Dexta]

i read the secret history one time, i thought it was shite.
am i mental?

i didn't like it that much. 'wah wah we're students oh look at us we have no jobs ohhh intrigue' etc.
i liked the little friend a lot though.

 

[Yurn!]

Is anyone else thoroughly disturbed by my rather extensive knowledge of the Cooper Canon? I certainly am.

Not me. Jilly was instrumental in Carla, the East German Elephant, getting her trunk out of her guts back in the 90's.

She's alright in Damo's book.

 

[oh shit]

my aunt writes novels now. she's two published. fiction. about ireland and mystery and stuff. apparently they're pretty good if you like that type of thing.

 

[george mcfly]

It's gotta be this buttock cupping masterpiece for me. :heart:

that cover was responsible for many a pajama wigwam back in the day

 

[Yurn!]

that cover was responsible for many a pajama wigwam back in the day

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Ah White Teeth wasn't bad, just the last 50 pages or so, the rest of it was grand.

 

[MDR]

God, I never realised how few books by female writers that I have read. Apart from Annie Proulx, Jane Austen and Sylvia Plath I don't think I have read any books by women.

 

[azezelo]

Julie Myerson
Anne Packer

 

[Franco]

A. L. Kennedy