When I set out to find a quality novel to read, actually to listen to on Audible, I was once again faced with the sad fact that what is popular enough to get recorded is usually about "farms" or "cowboys" and ninety-nine percent of that is written by cowgirls!  Now, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with any of that but I can't find anything of any sophistication to read.  My mind requires more than a toss in the hay.  Corney as it was, Patricia Nell Warren wrote a book of interest...albeit dated now...so there is not reason females cannot write good male/male fiction, but I read five to ten books before I find one that is stimulating and intellectually and aesthetically sound.  To say this is to risk the wrath of actively publishing writers, but generally the only one's to complain about this complaint are the one's I'm complaining about.  I am a fan of many writers.  I'd have to say Jean Genet is probably the most amazing quality writer.  However, I mentioned one day I liked Edmund White and unleashed a maelstrom of attacks upon myself from writers of the old gay western genre.  I found the resentment for intellectual pursuits to be so intense as to be frightening.  I thought authors were open minded and liked to see and read other writers but I heard from the range that it ain't that way necessarily.  Some complained loudly that they were much better writers than White, and had blazed the trails of gay literature when none others were doing it.  Jealousy and envy seeped from each word, and the end result was in silencing me in that "blog" and "bulletin board" because everything I liked caused knee-jerk antagonistic rejection.  So, to say I like to read THE MIRACLE OF THE ROSE, and that I got interested in Genet reading his biography by Edmund White whose FAREWELL SYMPHONY was a favorite book of mine was taken to be high treason and the very pinnacle of ignorance, stupid stupid me!  I looked at Wal-Mart for any of these great authors and none of them were there competing with Spider Man and The Holy Bible, so I am not sure where these unknowns have been so famous...perhaps pulp fiction is considered a great goal in life for some.  I find that quality novels seem to have to arrive in surprise form.  To go buy a book on Kindle or Barnes and Nobel and download it to read is risky business, so many doggies to get into the corrals, and cowpokes to feed, scrub clean and have them screw.  How new!