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Book Reccomendation
Cassi
May 22, 2012 09:59PM
I need some book recommendations. I'm looking for stories with manipulative female characters, particularly dark women, like in east of eden. Non-fiction articles are also good. I'm working on the motivations of a female serial killer, who typically are manipulative in most of their interactions.
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Atwood's The Handmaids Tale
The Hunger Games
Shogun
Just finished Burmese Days by George Orwell, and that had some dark characters.
The Hunger Games
Shogun
Just finished Burmese Days by George Orwell, and that had some dark characters.
Misery
The Three Musketeers (Lady Winter - read the chapter pertaining her imprisonment, perhaps the finest manipulative action I've read)
Macbeth (Lady Macbeth)
That's all I can think of now.
The Three Musketeers (Lady Winter - read the chapter pertaining her imprisonment, perhaps the finest manipulative action I've read)
Macbeth (Lady Macbeth)
That's all I can think of now.
The antagonist whom the heroine remembers, in Margaret Atwood's novel Cat's Eyes.
Some of the "double" characters in Susan Fromberg Schaeffer's more recent novels.
The sturdily built, controlling woman in Hawthorne's The Blythedale Romance. (This is a particularly good example)
Some of the "double" characters in Susan Fromberg Schaeffer's more recent novels.
The sturdily built, controlling woman in Hawthorne's The Blythedale Romance. (This is a particularly good example)
Cercei from A Game of Thrones
Amber from Forever Amber
Beatrice from Wideacre
Scarlett from Gone With the Wind
Amber from Forever Amber
Beatrice from Wideacre
Scarlett from Gone With the Wind
If you're willing to read in the mystery genre, I recommend John Sandford's Certain Prey, about a scheming attorney and the female assassin she hires:
Certain Prey
Or the creepy nurse in Sue Grafton's T book
T is for Trespass
Livia, in I, Claudius?
I, Claudius
Certain Prey
Or the creepy nurse in Sue Grafton's T book
T is for Trespass
Livia, in I, Claudius?
I, Claudius
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