OMG I agree with you so much with the “I will always defend a complex unlikable female character” I do this SOOO much especially with Ginny from Ginny and Georgia and aoi from tbhk 😩

@CaptainThugRdx

Ай бұрын

Lmao I sympathize with Ginny but she acts like an insufferable angst teen to a crazy degree sometimes.

@iko5164

Ай бұрын

@@CaptainThugRdx I understand that , but her mother killed 3 people 2 people didn’t REALLY harm her and 1 was someone’s husband ??? She uses her kids names for new credit cards (wrecking their credit score and basically will affect them a lot in the future) embezzled, and Ginny has every right to be upset with her mother for moving for no reason soooooo often that’s very traumatic and can affect someone’s life esp in teenage years always being the new girl and moving from place to place and never really having actual friends. I think Ginny is more in the right than Georgia is 😭

I absolutely hated My year of relaxation, and I love complex characters..there is a huge difference between having a flawed character and a character who is being a piece of shit..the writing was so bad and pretentious, it made the main character very one-dimensional and, in my opinion, fully failed to deliver on the dealing with depression front

So true! I had to leave the Gilmore Girls subreddit because of all the complaints about Rory. Give it a rest, people. She is an interesting character.

@angelikascorner

Ай бұрын

SAME! They drive me crazy 😭😭

I'm genuinely obsessed with Ottessa Moshfegh, I love how she writes grotesque, disturbing, awful people navigating life.

@angelikascorner

6 күн бұрын

same!!

Love this video. Everyone has different takes on books and that’s what makes the diversity of books so amazing

Hear me out... I LOVE complex and unlikeable female characters. But they need to be written right. I really had trouble getting through My Year of Rest and Relaxation because nothing was happening and nothing changes at the end. If you're going to be unlikeable, there needs to be something else interesting about you. The only thing that I even remember from that book now is when she pooped next to the dog sculpture (lol). I needed more unhinged moments like that for me to really get into it.

I honestly PREFER an unlikable female character. I feel like most ppl are unlikeable at at least one point in time in our lives. Its more honest imo

@angelikascorner

Ай бұрын

EXACTLY!

@scarletsjazz6472

Ай бұрын

yeah, I can’t stand those 100% perfect male-gaze female characters who don’t have a single flaw. boring and unrealistic

Also this is a really fun video idea. I loved watching this. I get so sad reading 1 star reviews of books I rated 5 stars hhahaha

LOVE

Have you read ‘a wish for us’ by tillie cole book?

I wanna read Funny Story very soon, only read Happy Place before from Emily Henry but I liked that one a lot! Regarding that book which is written without quotation marks: I don't think I coukd stand reading that😮 especially as a not native English speaker, I would struggle a lot and it would make my reading process much slower I assume. Something else I wanted to mention is that since reading many romance novels since last autumn where the female characters describe the male characters as mostly "broad shoulders, trained body, deep voice, amazing eyes, (...)" when they meet, I started looking at men like this too which feels so weird! In my head a narrating voice pops in and tries to see all those features😅 Obviously, that does not apply to most men I come across (at least not all of those features at once). Does anyone else have that happen to them? Additionally, why do the female characters always have to be small? I assume it is kind of a trope but as being a bit taller than average, I would love a book to feature a tall woman.

@gracesull78756

Ай бұрын

you're in luck bc book lovers by emily henry has a fmc who's a tall woman (i forget exactly but pretty close to six feet), and a similar height to the male love interest ! i'm unfortunately short, but even i found it so refreshing to not have yet another girl who's so itty bitty compared to the guy. additionally, it also happens to be a bit of a fan fav (i think), and a personal favorite as well. the dynamics are a little different, but i'm in the crowd who loved happy place if that corroborates my taste any when i say i adore book lovers also, can't say i've got a narrator now, but i think after reading this comment i might lol, might make life more fun to pretend i'm in a rom-com

I really wanted to like 'Normal People' but it put me into a reading slump, I guess miscommunication just isn't for me