ATD sex (WAS ATD verdict?)

[Tim Strzechowski]

In general, I was pretty ambivalent toward the various sex scenes in the 
latter part of the book.  Part of me wonders if it's a stylistic thing that 
comes with age -- a 69-year-old man writing about fetishistic sex in ATD vs. 
a 35-year-old man writing about the same in GR.  Not saying that a 
69-year-old man doesn't "know" sex, but I wonder if one's age has something 
to do with one's approach to writing about it.  Whereas the sex scenes in GR 
are kinkily erotic, the ones in ATD seemed rote (and kinda stupid) to me.

'Course, it could say just as much about the reader's approach to reading 
about sex, so ...




> Me neither. The stupid sex scene I just got to in AtD is so friggin awful,
> worse than anything I have ever read. I've read almost all Pynchon and
> could not conceive of more horrible unappealing attempt at describing a
> woman's motivation for being attracted to sex. I liked M&D the best, then
> COL49, then GR, then V.
>