Is Pynchon a "men's thing"?

[R_CONNORS at UNHH.UNH.EDU]

In a conversation I have periodically with a female friend and co-author,
I was lauding Pynchon and raving about GR, she was listening with a tired
expression.  Finally she said, "You know, I've tried to read him, and
lots of people have told me I should love him.  But I just can't read
that book.  It's such a men's thing.  All that paranoia and abstraction
and fantasy and technology.  I'm just not interested.  He's a men's
author, even more than Hemingway--New Age version of True Magazine."

Woof!  What do you think, gang?  Are there any women on this list?  Is
she right--is Pynchon the high lit equivalent of skateboarding fanzines?
Inquiring minds want to know.

Bob Connors