Fw: Re: Female Pynchons?

[kelber at mindspring.com]

OK, chick lit and chick flix are pretty horrible.  But how about guy lit/flix?  Clancy, Ludlum, The Rock ...

Laura
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Anville Azote <anville.azote at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Oct 8, 2006 12:45 PM
>>To: Paul Di Filippo <pgdf at earthlink.net>
>>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: Re: Female Pynchons?
>>
>>On 10/8/06, Paul Di Filippo <pgdf at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Deadly chick lit virus claims another victim
>>>                 by Luke O'Neil
>>>                 Issue 8.40
>>>                 Wed, October 04, 2006
>>>
>>
>>Wasn't it William S. Burroughs who said, "Chick lit is a virus from
>>outer space?"
>>
>>:-/
>>
>>> But even more problematic, the book is thick on the page with
>>> incongruous literary allusions, cinematic cross-references and set
>>> pieces culled from famous works of art. These are devices that sound
>>> intriguing in theory, but Pessl flubs it. The protagonist's every
>>> thought is cluttered with so much highbrow meandering, it becomes
>>> impossible to spot the line where genuine emotion blends into
>>> meta-ironic, extra-literary horseshit. The anorexic plot is incapable
>>> of bearing the weight of its ambitions. Pessl spends at least a quarter
>>> of her sentences on puffed-up would-be dazzling metaphors that stink up
>>> the room. She simply can't get out of the way of her own wagging
>>> tongue. Another quarter of her text is wasted on faux-academic
>>> journalistic cross-referencing:
>>>
>>
>>"Lolita" done wrong, more or less?
>>
>>-A. A.