Lara M
Chick Lits written by male authors....
September 14th 2006 13:30
Yeah, so I was just blogging about the possibilities of having a 'dude lit' around before....something for the guys to read so they'll understand women better. Coincidentally, I happened to be reading a chick lit written by a male author ar the moment. Funny thing though...I didn't realise it until today, when I'm like halfway through the book!
The book is called 'Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys', written by Eric Garcia. You must be wondering how on earth can I not know that it was written by a guy, when the name is so obvious! Honestly, I was attracted to the name Garcia (was thinking about Adam Garcia from Coyote Ugly), that's why it failed to occur to me that Eric=male/guy!
So, anyway I found the book a little bit weird because it's not your average chick lit kinda reading...you know, about women charging their credit cards to their limits and their romantic relationships with men. In this book, the main character hides men (with whom she's had bad dates with) in her basement...and keeps them for about close to a year right there, grooms them and give them lessons on dressing and how to treat women with respect. Oh, how did these men obey her willingly? Actually they don't (who does...this whole concept seems rather absurd!)...she jabs them with stuffs like morphine and opiate, and they relax and give in to her orders with time. When I first started reading the book, I thought these men were having some kinda disorder like down syndrome or something, by the way they were portrayed! Oh, and she uses those S&M handcuffs to tie them to the bed so that they won't escape from the basement to the real world out there! Basically, she's protecting them from the real world because she think it makes them less of a jerk by doing that, and she'd form them into sensitive, sweet and caring men.
Well, I must say...I haven't read anything quite like this before. It's VERY imaginative, and I guess very fantasy like. Because come on, who will do such things in the real world?! Hiding men in the basement, and one of them happens to be a famous C-list movie star?? You would have thought that she'd get arrested by now!! Well, at least I got to see how men think and how they view and write chick lits. Although, I must say...I still prefer the usual women authors' version, although I'm impressed by how much this author understands women (I guess he does at some level, if not how would he write this book in the first place).
Anyone up to giving this book a try? It gets a little boring at the beginning, but it's not too bad from the middle onwards. Are there any more male authors that I do not know of?
The book is called 'Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys', written by Eric Garcia. You must be wondering how on earth can I not know that it was written by a guy, when the name is so obvious! Honestly, I was attracted to the name Garcia (was thinking about Adam Garcia from Coyote Ugly), that's why it failed to occur to me that Eric=male/guy!
So, anyway I found the book a little bit weird because it's not your average chick lit kinda reading...you know, about women charging their credit cards to their limits and their romantic relationships with men. In this book, the main character hides men (with whom she's had bad dates with) in her basement...and keeps them for about close to a year right there, grooms them and give them lessons on dressing and how to treat women with respect. Oh, how did these men obey her willingly? Actually they don't (who does...this whole concept seems rather absurd!)...she jabs them with stuffs like morphine and opiate, and they relax and give in to her orders with time. When I first started reading the book, I thought these men were having some kinda disorder like down syndrome or something, by the way they were portrayed! Oh, and she uses those S&M handcuffs to tie them to the bed so that they won't escape from the basement to the real world out there! Basically, she's protecting them from the real world because she think it makes them less of a jerk by doing that, and she'd form them into sensitive, sweet and caring men.
Well, I must say...I haven't read anything quite like this before. It's VERY imaginative, and I guess very fantasy like. Because come on, who will do such things in the real world?! Hiding men in the basement, and one of them happens to be a famous C-list movie star?? You would have thought that she'd get arrested by now!! Well, at least I got to see how men think and how they view and write chick lits. Although, I must say...I still prefer the usual women authors' version, although I'm impressed by how much this author understands women (I guess he does at some level, if not how would he write this book in the first place).
Anyone up to giving this book a try? It gets a little boring at the beginning, but it's not too bad from the middle onwards. Are there any more male authors that I do not know of?
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