ATD sex (WAS ATD verdict?)

[Otto]

Comparing the "Anubis"-scene with the "Four Corners"-scene there seems
to have been an editor, the personnel has been reduced.

2006/12/28, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>:
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> On Dec 28, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Tim Strzechowski wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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
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> >> 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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