Why chicks don't dig TRP

[Keith McMullen]

On Sep 22, 2004, at 9:44 PM, Bekah wrote:

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....