ATD sex (WAS ATD verdict?)

[Paul Mackin]

On Dec 28, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Tim Strzechowski wrote:

> 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.


Maybe Melanie should have played Lysistrata to Tom'e Athenians until  
he consented to hire himself an editor.






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