Why chicks don't dig TRP

[Steve Maas]

If someone feels “overwhelmed by and beat-up by” GR, I ask them not to 
ascribe that reaction to others. The fault, dear reader, is not in our 
authors, but in ourselves. And this has nothing to do with an F/M 
difference. If more men than women enjoy GR, I think the reason lies 
elsewhere.

Steve Maas

>I think it has something to do with the fact that, while the substance of
>his work is deeply compassionate, the methods are more akin to bullying.
>His "encyclopedic," "systems novel" style conforms to what one book called
>"the art of excess" in which the WHOLE POINT is for the reader to be
>overwhelmed by and beat-up by the book.  The Pynchon reader is Clintonian 
>--
>he feels the writer's pain.

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