Fw: Re: Female Pynchons?

[Charles Albert]

You best not be dissin' "Vision Quest"......


It's got it all.....coming of age, the joy of older women, the Beast working
steps with a 6 foot redwood log across his back, a native american with a
mohawk, a score with Red Ryder's great Lunatic Fringe AND John Waite's
Change...and male bulimia.....


maybe you had to be a wrestler.........


love,
cfa
On 10/8/06, bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
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