Chick Lit.

[G L Wilson]

Chick Lit. Is it even human?

[Varenne Rodin]

What falls under this category?

[G L Wilson]

What falls under this category?

Trash meant for chicks.

[G L Wilson]

The Twilight series.
Eat, Pray, Love.

Clearly some people think that women are base animals.

[Ome]

I'd invite this kind of authors on a ship and sink them http://im-smiley.com/imgs/famous/famous010.gif (http://im-smiley.com)

[Buh4Bee]

Oh, come on, you can't trash woman for wanting to rot their brains every once in a while. After all, we read it to get away from men. LOL!!!!

[G L Wilson]

Oh, come on, you can't trash woman for wanting to rot their brains every once in a while. After all, we read it to get away from men. LOL!!!!

lol! What am I laughing about, that isn't funny?

[Ome]

oh yeah I can

[YesNo]

I thought the movie, "Eat, Pray, Love" was OK. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0879870/ I wouldn't want to see it again, but I had never seen an ashram in India before watching this.

I suspect "Chick Lit" is literature where a female has a leading role. Nothing wrong with that.

[Varenne Rodin]

I don't limit myself much to what I will read. Sometimes I want to read classic masterpieces, gore fests, crime dramas, fantasy fiction, nonfiction. Sometimes I want to read smut sex garbage, just as some people want to get off staring at tits. Grammar and spelling are important to me, beyond that, just about anything goes.

I'm not into Twilight because I don't like sissy glitterbaby mormonized "vampires."

[G L Wilson]

I suspect "Chick Lit" is literature where a female has a leading role. Nothing wrong with that.

Nothing wrong with it all, except how many leading women crawl up into the loving arms of the first stud that comes along in books, in film? It's not a theme, it's a motif.

[YesNo]

Nothing wrong with it all, except how many leading women crawl up into the loving arms of the first stud that comes along in books, in film? It's not a theme, it's a motif.
There's nothing wrong even with that. It seems that men have the same problem, by the way.

In "Eat, Pray, Love", she also passed by a few men, if you recall.

[G L Wilson]

There's nothing wrong even with that. It seems that men have the same problem, by the way.

I think that there is a big problem with that. As for the equality of the sexes, give me a break: men don't have it nearly as tough as women.

[Varenne Rodin]

Is Bram Stoker's Dracula chick lit?

[G L Wilson]

Is Bram Stoker's Dracula chick lit?

Interesting question. I suppose at the time it was written, it was. Victorian feminism was appallingly puritan.

[Calidore]

There's good and bad in everything. I haven't read much chick lit, but was excellent as was the movie. I also liked the first three of Diana Gabaldon's [I]Outlander series very much, and the first couple of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books.

On the low end you have the insane amount of assembly-line romance novels in supermarkets everywhere. But there's a dude lit equivalent: the Mack Bolan novels, et al.

So there aren't nearly as many crappy guy books as crappy girlie books. Is that because men have higher standards, or because men don't read as much, and at least the women reading this stuff are reading. Moving away from the obviously targeted book lines, it would be interesting to see a genderized breakdown of the NYT bestseller list.

[papayahed]

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