Ok, partly for inspiration for EE2 but mainly out of my own strange interests, have any of you read books with a particular female character who was stunningly well-written and absolutely fall-in-love-with-able? (Not cutesy lovable, more "IT'S ALIVE" lovable cause she seems like a real human being.)
I'm asking because I so often find that while male characters tend to be basically cool and believable and all that, their female counterparts are presented in a rather "meh" way. My own sexist bias? The effect of the corporate patriarchy on literature? Am I just going crazy? Whatever, I'm just hungry for more alive women.
For instance, three characters I am in love with:
Do share.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, Sarah Woodruff from The French Lieutenant's Woman is also pretty cool, except for the ending.
I'm asking because I so often find that while male characters tend to be basically cool and believable and all that, their female counterparts are presented in a rather "meh" way. My own sexist bias? The effect of the corporate patriarchy on literature? Am I just going crazy? Whatever, I'm just hungry for more alive women.
For instance, three characters I am in love with:
- The redhead Irish Catholic commie woman in The Pledge by Howard Fast (read it a long time ago, can't be bothered to look up her name again). She was the first one to make me realise how sub-par other female characters are.
- Marla Singer, in both the novel and movie versions of Fight Club. But sort of for different reasons, and the book was cooler anyway.
- (doesn't really count, but...) the girl RHCP sing about in She's Only 18. I want her and I can't have her because she's not real
Do share.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, Sarah Woodruff from The French Lieutenant's Woman is also pretty cool, except for the ending.
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