Why chicks don't dig TRP

[Bekah]

I'm quite female and I read Gravity's Rainbow from beginning to end. Truthfully, I didn't much care for it. (I didn't "hate" it.) It was rough and crude in a lot of places and as science and tech oriented as you can probably get without being a sci fi or genre war book. It had a distinctly male point of view.

I totally love Mason & Dixon and Vineland is quite fun. I'm willing to look at Gravity's Rainbow again but... well ... it's just kind of yukky, imo.  Boy stuff.

Bekah



At 2:02 PM -0700 9/22/04, Dave Monroe wrote:
>You know, I never saw all too many women at Gen Con,
>either, unless they were vendors or apparently paid to
>be there (and I have the Polaroids to prove it) ...
>
>I know at least one female Pynchon, er, appreciator.
>But the only person I've ever met who both read in its
>entirety AND hated Gravity's Rainbow was female ...
>
>--- Will Layman <WillLayman at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> OK, I'll take a shot at this.
>>
>> I've been reading TRP for about 25 year and, like
>> many of you, I've never (EVER) succeeded in getting
>> a woman to enjoy his work.  My wife?  Nope.  My
>> students?  Don't like him, if they're girls.  Not
> > friends, not enemies....