Date: 17 October 2007 03:22 pm (UTC)
Funny, I wouldn't call that list of writing elements as chick lit, I'd call it "bad slash fic" XD

I've only read Fall of Kings by Kushner and it seems to have a lot in common with what this guy is describing in Swordspoint. It's sexist to call it chick lit but admittedly you get the feeling it was written and the characters portrayed that way for its female readership.

If there's a genre to be called "boy's lit", I'd give it to thrillers written by men. The male characters insult each other by saying "you're a fag!", the female characters exist only to adore the men and have sex with them, and racism and violence and misogyny fill its pages.

You raise an interesting point here, and I know I'm straying off your main point^^, but I think it's not the writers who are interesting as much as what each type of "lit" says about its readers.
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