tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post6065700326263267023..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Real Boys Don't CryStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-32108587112934271302017-04-14T17:21:30.306-07:002017-04-14T17:21:30.306-07:00I mentioned this at AccordingToHoyt.com and was to...I mentioned this at AccordingToHoyt.com and was told about http://guysread.com/Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-65812709284399475502017-04-14T16:57:54.622-07:002017-04-14T16:57:54.622-07:00I'm glad the Hardy Boys showed up in the artic...I'm glad the Hardy Boys showed up in the article. There is plenty of classic sci-fi and fantasy out there - Tolkein, Asimov, John Wyndham and of course mystery - Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. But I'm a reader, so I tend to seek this out. Generally I don't find much contemporary writing of interest for the reasons illustrated.Shaun Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17425084501514329529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-86315121057875082582017-04-14T15:59:04.932-07:002017-04-14T15:59:04.932-07:00Well, yes, of course they don't read girly boo...Well, yes, of course they don't read girly books. When I was a tween myself, I despised the girly books, which seemed to be all about some seeping pool of middle-school/high school misery, all angst and family problems and the possible attention of some high-school hero dweeb who seemed hardly worth the effort.<br />I wanted adventure, challenge, interesting and unusual people, great deeds and all that...<br /><br />My daughter pointed out that there were so few good and interesting books for tween boys, now that the Harry Potter series was done - which is why she said that my revamping of the Lone Ranger (historically accurate and sans Johnny Depp with a dead bird on his head) ought to be aimed for that demographic. So, what Sarah said. (My book is called Lone Star Sons, BTW. I'm tasked with doing another of the same this year...) Celia Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16261103494038415027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-59680845067915250772017-04-14T15:39:21.849-07:002017-04-14T15:39:21.849-07:00Walt, that's what I read. Not all women autho...Walt, that's what I read. Not all women authors are the same. Myself and my fellow "sad puppies" (half of us were female) just want fun books. Both reading them and writing them.Sarah A. Hoythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537994828096984794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-85237651749188446362017-04-13T18:26:48.021-07:002017-04-13T18:26:48.021-07:00Animal & adventure stories. Jack London. Call ...Animal & adventure stories. Jack London. Call of the Wild --easy to identify with Buck. ..Anecdote: a female friend wrote a series of books about a tough-guy cat detective for ages 8-12 and was frequently asked to do readings and q&a's at grade schools. After one particularly enjoyable session with smart 4th graders, where the boys were particularly enthusiastic, she complimented the teacher on what a great class it was, and the teacher responded with surprising and unimaginable venom: 'I HATE the boys!" IOW, that too is a factor.Waltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-31991292122798692652017-04-13T16:25:26.307-07:002017-04-13T16:25:26.307-07:00The boys are saying they'd like something they...The boys are saying they'd like something they'd like to read, that they'd enjoy, and what they're being given is SPINACH. Which they hate. Girls like spinach, apparently.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-53179121197408778212017-04-13T08:06:50.112-07:002017-04-13T08:06:50.112-07:00Ares, google Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies.
Yes S...Ares, google Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies.<br /><br />Yes Sci-Fi is now as mainstream as any other topic. Last years Hugo's actually did not present some of the awards, because these 2 groups had "infiltrated" the voting.<br /><br />SJWship is everywhere.<br /><br />Stuart, funny thing, was reading a link at InstaPundit this morning. <br /><br />"Traditional gender roles increasingly popular with millennials, research finds"<br /><br />https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/traditional-gender-roles-increasingly-popular-millennials-research-finds/<br /><br />Leo Gnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-4631061410748061892017-04-13T06:05:46.344-07:002017-04-13T06:05:46.344-07:00I think I recall J. K. Rowlings saying she had a m...I think I recall J. K. Rowlings saying she had a male main character for Harry Potter because she thought it would sell better, and of course she also hid her own gender as well.<br /><br />I got into SciFi and fantasy books during High school and college, although not as much as other kids I knew. I never got into Dune for instance, although I heard it was good. I don't think SciFi books will ever fall for PC.<br /><br />The key thing I learned from fiction is that I was much more confidence giving advice to story characters than in real life. It always seemed obvious what the characters should do, and later I'd see something similar in my own life and say to myself "Oh, that's why they acted that way." Well, I suppose I learned that in life too, when people tell me of their predicaments. It is cool to have a sense of the interior of another person, and I think it does help reduce blame and projecting other people as the cause of my problems when I can imagine theirs.<br /><br />So I learned about perspective-taking side of cognitive empathy maybe more than the feeling side. I did cry at the end of C.S Lewis's chronicles of Narnia. Somehow the idea of the entire world being destroyed didn't seem like a safe bet to me, even if Heaven was a better version of reality. Is it greedy to want to keep both? Maybe that's how I became an environmentalist?<br /><br />And no matter how cool it might seem to become a Martian, I still think we should solve our problems on earth before we convince ourselves that we can just find a new planet to trash when we make a big enough mess of this one.<br /><br />I do support genetic engineering, at least to make some bacteria that can thrive on Mars or Europa, at least after we can convince ourselves they are sterile. Still martian bacteria evolution fiction is surely even more boring than the new star wars movies. The first page might say "And then they slowly changed for a million years" before something exciting and new happened that no one expected.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-48088752589849114572017-04-13T06:03:11.078-07:002017-04-13T06:03:11.078-07:00Interesing observation.
My escapist reading tends...Interesing observation.<br /><br />My escapist reading tends to thrillers, space opera, and police procedural genres. I have not read a genre book written by a woman in years. They just don't appeal to me. It's a matter of focus. I really could care less if DI Smithers wears an understated club tie with a spread collar.<br /><br />As a result, I have observed that Amazon Prime is flogging women authors with a vengeance. trigger warninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06310637474428322994noreply@blogger.com