Frau literature (frau book porn)

Written by a child molester. True story.

Please elaborate, R1.

Who are you people who have all the facts on child molesters and "pedos"? I have never heard so much about sexual abuse of minors as I do on DL.

I thought the ultimate frau book was Eat Pray Love....

R3 Honeybun. go fuck yourself, cuntrag.

The author's daughter revealed that her mother, the book's author, had molested her from the age of 3 until she was 12.

Wow

I had no idea

It was a huge shocker because the book had been held up as a feminist triumph, and was hugely popular. So women were heart-broken to learn the truth about the author.

The daughter has some strange views about homosexuality.

Ok what are the other frau books ?

Diana Glabadon?

Jodi Picoult?

[quote] Diana Glabadon?

Definitely.

The Bridges of Madison County.

All the 40 something women in my office got themselves into trouble after reading that book -- or at least they tried...

Jodi Piccolo books for sure. Hysterical realism-lite.

Frau's attempts to understand 'red hot' issues of the day, all done within the frau gaze.

Definitely Ear Pray Love (spawning those Live Love Laugh throw pillows)

50 Shades of Gray

Outlander

The Secret

Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Danielle Steele.

So Dark the Waves on Biscayne Bay, by Barbara Thorndyke.

R8 She was molested from the age of 3 until she was 12, bu an adult woman (her mom). So you're surprised she has mental health issues and is prejudiced?

Anything that they can watch in the form of a cloying Harlequin television adaptation first, such as PRIDE & PREJUDICE.

Gillian Flynn. Overrated crap for fraus trying to be edgy. Amazing Amy is a sort of hero for a certain type of wealthy, passive aggressive woman who will never ever express what they want but expect others to read their minds. Until one day they flip out. And her other books suck too.

I'm not a frau, and I loved The Mists Of Avalon. Sucks the author was a creepy perv (and there are glimmers of MZB's perviness in the book) but I still like it.

How did no one mention Nora Roberts? She’s written about 300 versions of the same book at this point.

A lot of fraus like young adult books these days, despite being way over the age bracket. The most popular one I’ve found is called Throne of a Glass, it’s a bland fantasy.

Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates. It's for faux intellectual fraus. The type who view Monroe as a fountain of wisdom, depth, and complexity as well as being the ultimate passive victim of the men around her, rather than a personality disordered druggie.

Excuse me, assholes. Kay Scarpetta is a frau HERO.

Could be. I never felt any interest towards that book nor any other by that author.

Jodi Picoult, another author that sounds boring. Never found the urge to read it.

For some reason I cannot stand Joyce Carol Oates (racist, white, secluded?). Granted she writes better than the others cited in the thread.

Pat C is a horrendous writer. Those thrillers of hers are dreck to clog through.

Nicholas Sparks

Joyce Carol Oates is a bit like Elizabeth George in that she has a tendency to come across as condescending when writing "compassionately " about marginalized characters.

Anything by Danielle Steel.

Sorry, but I don't think I believe the daughter of Marion Zimmer Bradley.

MZB’s husband was a pedophile too. Birds of a feather

Alice Munro, pseudo intellectual, who celebrates the 'bittersweet world of being a mother, and human being'. The time-swaps are so clever!

So twee and sentimental. Very MFA Iowa Workshop with a touch of Tortured Mommy porn.

Elin Hildebrand

Memoirs of a Geisha

The creepier the crime thriller, the more the Frauen lieben.

The Red Tent. A whole book about women either having sex, having babies or on their periods. They did nothing else.

MZB wrote lesbian porn fiction decades before "The Mists Of Avalon."

In TMOA, there are some female faeries who are described as childlike in appearance, and they feel up on Morgaine's body.

Sick pedo MZB.

Alice Munro doesn't belong in this thread. Ann Patchett does.

Interesting to know, R28. I had a colleague who had a row of books by Elizabeth George in her house. Nice enough woman, though.

I like Grace Paley. She doesn't belong on this thread by any stretch of the imagination. Just thought I'd mention her.

R36 You mean a spin-off on the Bible?? Lord have mercy.

Are you equating lesbianism with pedophilia R37? If MZB could give evidence against her father, why not her mother? And where are all the other victims that she says exists?

Joyce Carol Oates is a terrific writer, who doesn’t deserve to be denigrated as a “frau” author. That said, she’s so insanely prolific that she’s written some truly lousy books, Blonde being among them.

* MZB's daughter

Any Christmas themed romance novel.