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Anonymous wrote:T Kingfisher is fun but such girl books! Try Terry Pratchett, Lies of Locke Lamora, Island in a Sea of Time.

Wtf is wrong with you and this horrifically ignorant take? Do you think T. Kingfisher is writing “girl books” because there is almost always two main characters, one male and one female? And they always both have special skills that help on the mission/quest? How is that “girl” coded?

The first two books have three men and one woman on a quest. The Saint of Steel books are about a group of paladins (4 books so far, 4 male paladins).

The third Saint of Steel book has all male main characters. SO girly!!!

I love Saint of Steel, but they are all romances (and honestly kind of the same romancé repeated). It’s reductive to describe them as girl fantasy. But I also haven’t ever met a man who reads romance, though I’m sure they exist.

It’s reductive to call them romances. You might as well call them mysteries.

And you’ve never met a man who reads a book with a romance plot? I find that hard to believe.

They’re not just books with a romance plot, they are written to fall within the romance genre! And it’s always the same romance: average looking middle aged person gets over deep insecurity to accept that a hot paladin could really be attracted to them. It’s not reductive to call them romances, unless you think there’s something inferior about romance as a genre.

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Anonymous wrote:Becky Chambers has a series of cozy feel-good sci-fi that is available on kindle unlimited. A long way to a distant planet and so on.

In the same vein: John Scalzi. Tons to pick from but I'd start with either Old man's War or The Collapsing Empire.

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Anonymous wrote:T Kingfisher is fun but such girl books! Try Terry Pratchett, Lies of Locke Lamora, Island in a Sea of Time.

Wtf is wrong with you and this horrifically ignorant take? Do you think T. Kingfisher is writing “girl books” because there is almost always two main characters, one male and one female? And they always both have special skills that help on the mission/quest? How is that “girl” coded?

The first two books have three men and one woman on a quest. The Saint of Steel books are about a group of paladins (4 books so far, 4 male paladins).

The third Saint of Steel book has all male main characters. SO girly!!!

I love Saint of Steel, but they are all romances (and honestly kind of the same romancé repeated). It’s reductive to describe them as girl fantasy. But I also haven’t ever met a man who reads romance, though I’m sure they exist.

It’s reductive to call them romances. You might as well call them mysteries.

And you’ve never met a man who reads a book with a romance plot? I find that hard to believe.

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Anonymous wrote:T Kingfisher is fun but such girl books! Try Terry Pratchett, Lies of Locke Lamora, Island in a Sea of Time.

Wtf is wrong with you and this horrifically ignorant take? Do you think T. Kingfisher is writing “girl books” because there is almost always two main characters, one male and one female? And they always both have special skills that help on the mission/quest? How is that “girl” coded?

The first two books have three men and one woman on a quest. The Saint of Steel books are about a group of paladins (4 books so far, 4 male paladins).

The third Saint of Steel book has all male main characters. SO girly!!!

I love Saint of Steel, but they are all romances (and honestly kind of the same romancé repeated). It’s reductive to describe them as girl fantasy. But I also haven’t ever met a man who reads romance, though I’m sure they exist.

It’s reductive to call them romances. You might as well call them mysteries.

And you’ve never met a man who reads a book with a romance plot? I find that hard to believe.

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Anonymous wrote:T Kingfisher is fun but such girl books! Try Terry Pratchett, Lies of Locke Lamora, Island in a Sea of Time.

Wtf is wrong with you and this horrifically ignorant take? Do you think T. Kingfisher is writing “girl books” because there is almost always two main characters, one male and one female? And they always both have special skills that help on the mission/quest? How is that “girl” coded?

The first two books have three men and one woman on a quest. The Saint of Steel books are about a group of paladins (4 books so far, 4 male paladins).

The third Saint of Steel book has all male main characters. SO girly!!!

I love Saint of Steel, but they are all romances (and honestly kind of the same romancé repeated). It’s reductive to describe them as girl fantasy. But I also haven’t ever met a man who reads romance, though I’m sure they exist.

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Anonymous wrote:T Kingfisher is fun but such girl books! Try Terry Pratchett, Lies of Locke Lamora, Island in a Sea of Time.

Wtf is wrong with you and this horrifically ignorant take? Do you think T. Kingfisher is writing “girl books” because there is almost always two main characters, one male and one female? And they always both have special skills that help on the mission/quest? How is that “girl” coded?

The first two books have three men and one woman on a quest. The Saint of Steel books are about a group of paladins (4 books so far, 4 male paladins).

The third Saint of Steel book has all male main characters. SO girly!!!

Anonymous wrote:I’m guessing he’s read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?

Anonymous wrote:Terry Pratchett is probably the standard suggestion but imo the books are a little uneven (some very good, so very broad).

Connie Willis is very good. Her latest is about people who celebrate Area 51 but she has earlier time travel books that are good too.

Anonymous wrote:T Kingfisher is fun but such girl books! Try Terry Pratchett, Lies of Locke Lamora, Island in a Sea of Time.