Fw: Re: Female Pynchons?

[bekah]

wrestling movies.

Bekah

At 1:09 PM -0400 10/8/06, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>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.