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Champion
 
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde – I forget who by :-)
Tragically, it’s research for a LRP character.
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LT: Whimsy, Archer's Guild Fae Butler.
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Knight
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I just read
"Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice"
which is by Jack Holland, and a seriously good read. He was a journalist (sadly now dead) and so although this is a well-researched, academic-book-with-footnotes, his style is immensely readable. I read at least half of it on a four-hour-train journey - it's compelling, but not annoying.
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Devil's Advocate
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I read a review of that, seemed very interesting.
Would I be ashamed to be male if I read it?
If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
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Nothing to see here.
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George R. R. Martin - A Game of Thrones
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EOS: I just work there too.
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Knight
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Tart (8/30/2006)
I read a review of that, seemed very interesting.
Would I be ashamed to be male if I read it?
I was sucked into buying it after reading an interesting review of it, too, and I'm glad I did.
in answer to your question... possibly. Although it's not really slinging blame around (which is what I meant by not annoying), so I'm not sure the aim is to make people feel shame. The facts are pretty shaming, but there are plenty of facts about misogynistic women, too.
And it makes the point, reasonably well, that misogyny as a worldview doesn't help men or women.. so I suppose my answer is 'I don't know. Probably. But not exclusively YOU. and that shouldn't put you off'.
Vague. me? 
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Heroic Knight
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Currently reading Jarhead by Antony Swofford. Rather good.
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Squire
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| Queen of Slayers - a buffy novel, following on from the season 7 finale. It's dreadful. Painful, staccato fanfiction. It made me want to gouge out my own eyes.
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Apprentice
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Re-reading all the Elric novels (again) - Michael Moorcock
They are shockingly bad in almost every way, but you've got to respect the classics haven't you...?
Alex
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| Crushingly disappointed/enraged with two of Sheri S Tepper's books (Gibbon's Decline and Fall and A Plague of Angels). Having previously read and liked Sideshow and The Awakeners, I'd pegged her as an author to look out for, but Gibbon's Decline and Fall (men are bad, but they are made bad by an evil devil-man-space-alien, good matriarchal aliens will save us by eliminating men) and A Plague of Angels (civilisation is bad, but that's ok because good-all-knowing-space aliens are manipulating people, releasing plagues, and re-engineering society so we'll all become good matriarchal Amerindians - but wait! an evil cackling maniac, dying from radiation poisoning, is incompetently interfering with their plans by releasing an army of nuclear kill-bots) are almost set-piece pastiches of g | | | |