Why don't women read Pynchon?

[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 30, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Jasper Fidget wrote:

> Anecdotally, it was a woman coworker who first introduced me to  
> Pynchon.
> Of course I had a bit of thing for her, especially when she went  
> around
> calling people Bloody Chicklitz.


Likewise, it was a woman who introduced me, one for whom I also must  
have had a thing.

How else explain?


P.


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> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:03 -0500, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>> Has the assumption about the gender of Pynchon's readers ever been  
>> backed up by any type of poll or market research, or is it  
>> strictly anecdotal?  Also, what percentage of book reviewers are  
>> women?  I think few people on this list, and probably few book  
>> reviewers, have lots of personal acquaintances, male or female,  
>> who are Pynchon fans.  So it would be hard for anyone to make  
>> generalizations about Pynchon's readership, other than to say  
>> they're a quirky, isolated lot.
>>
>> Laura
>>
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