“Somehow, women's romance novels are not titled He Stopped When I Said "No". They are, though, titled Sweet Savage Love, in which the woman rejects the hand of her gentler lover who saves her from the rapist and marries the man who repeatedly and savagely rapes her. It is this "marry the rapist" theme that not only turned Sweet Savage Love into a best-seller but also into one of women's most enduring romance novels.” MenSaidHandsRomanceNovelHe ManSweetLoversEndureThemeRejectsSavagesRomance NovelSellersBest Sellers Author:Warren Farrell
“The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life - even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.” MenWorldHardAgeKindnessNovelVirtueViolenceHe ManHard WorkGreedCrueltyHypocrisyExposedSanctityVictorianDickensDomestic LifeProbityVictorian Age Author:Robert Gottlieb
“Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that such a possibility was thousands of years in the future. Some people may still have some difficulty with the idea, but that's a major cultural meme shift.” PeopleMenYearsMayStillsIdeasStatesBlackPresidentUnitedUnited StatesNovelPossibilityHe ManBecomingMajorsDifficulty1960sMemesBecoming President Author:Wayne Dyer
“I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some beautiful things in that, particularly the relationship between the man who finds the briefcase and the woman whose husband owned the briefcase. It's quite a beautiful passage.” MenBeautifulFallNovelHe ManHusbandPassagesBeautiful ThingsBriefcases Author:Paul Auster
“Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that I understand her better. She has a violent nostalgia, almost an infantile nostalgia, to be understood by the men surrounding her. I like her relentless fight for independence, her rebellion against the mediocre, and her quest for the sublime, even if she burns her wigs in the process. I like that Flaubert never judges her morally for her self-destructiveness, for her desperate attempt to satisfy her wildest desires and appetites.” IfsMenFeelsYearsSelfDesireFightingProcessNovelHe ManJudgingUnderstoodIndependenceMy FavoriteNostalgiaViolentDesperateRebellionAppetiteQuestsSublimeMediocreRelentlessLike HerEmmaWigsEnigmaInfantileDestructiveness Author:Sophie Barthes